Dr. Amira Guirguis

Amira Guirguis is a Professor of Pharmacy at the Swansea University. She gained her PhD in the in-field detection of Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS). She was the 2014 winner of the JPAG’s Geoffrey Phillips award and the Principal Investigator of the first-Home Office-licensed Pharmacist-led drug-checking service in the UK. She is now the MPharm Programme Director at Swansea University Medical School and is a known international expert in the field of substance misuse. She pioneered the initiative of developing a ‘new’ concept for providing insight among pharmacists, other healthcare professionals, and service providers of the completely new area of NPS which cumulated undergraduate and postgraduate pharmacy education modules and was the subject of the recent Swansea University Podcast series.