Head of Department Pharmacy Practice Dr. Shazia Jamshed did her Ph.D. in Pharmacy Practice in 2011 from Universiti Sains Malaysia. Prior, she completed her Bachelors in Pharmacy and Master of Philosophy Pharmacology from the University of Karachi, Pakistan. Since 2007 onwards she is involved in teaching and guiding research students. She worked as research fellow in USM from 2008-2011 where she mentored undergraduate research students in Pharmacoepidemiology, Pharmaceutical Marketing, Evidence-Based Medicine, (EBM) Drug Utilization Review, public health pharmacy, generic medicine substitution, and Biostatistics. She was actively involved in guiding final year students for their qualitative research work afterwards. She joined International Medical University, Malaysia as Lecturer, Pharmacy Practice. At IMU she was involved in conducting Professional Skill Development (PSD) and Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). She was the module coordinator for Clinical Pharmacy and Hospital coordinator. From 2012 to 2020 she served as Assistant Professor International Islamic University Malaysia and coordinated OSCE followed by the initiation of Home Medication Review Program for final year students. For the last 8 years she was fulfilling the role of Clinical Preceptor in Gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, Renal and Dermatological Clerkships with final year pharmacy program. She worked as Associate Professor, Clinical Pharmacy and Practice, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin Malaysia and was actively involved in curriculum mapping, OBE system and coordination of Pharmacoinformatics course. She also served as Networking Coordinator, External Linkages from 2020 to 2021 and won laurels of international collaboration for the university both in terms of publications and grants. Recently she served as volunteer pharmacist Immunization Program, Malaysia in 2021. In terms of research skills, she outclassed significantly in research arena and published more than 100 research and review papers in internationally recognized peer review journals with good impact factors. Besides her peer reviewing responsibilities, she is still associated with different international journals in the capacity of Section editor and Associate editor and Editorial Board Member like BMC Health Services Research, Nature Scientific Reports, Perspectives in Public Health. In the paradigm of book chapter writing, she wrote 6 book chapters on topics of Social Pharmacy (Elsevier-India), Intellectual property right and access to Medicines (Palgrave MacMillan), and Pharmacy Education and Practice in Pakistan (Elsevier -USA), Medication Therapy Management. One of the chapters recently published in Encyclopedia of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice encompass the role of pharmacists in multiple sclerosis. In the context of research supervision, twelve students completed their undergraduate research projects at IIUM, IMU, and University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Four students completed their PhD projects while three completed masters under her supervision. Apart from grant writing and securing, she is fine-tuned to project planning and management of staff and colleagues working as collaborators from other disciplines. Her expertise in teaching, research and scholarship, her wide-ranging experience in collaborative research and her strong influencing skills makes her an excellent candidate to help SCPS achieve the aim of developing the pharmacist advocates of safe and effective use of drugs.