Dr Amr ElShaer

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Amr ElShaer
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About

My research and academic career started by pursuing  an MSc in Pharmaceutics at Aston University in 2009. After finishing my masters degree with distinction, I was offered a PhD scholarship (under the supervision of Prof. Afzal Mohammed) in the area of Molecular Pharmaceutics. Afterwards, I joined Redx Pharmaceuticals as DMPK Scientist then joined Kingston University as a lecturer in 2013. At Kingston I run multidisciplinary projects to explore the synthesis and manufacture of smart polymers to sense the glucose concentrations in blood and release the drug according to the diabetic patient need. My team also evaluates the use of contact lenses to deliver ophthalmic drugs. Besides, I am interested in exploring the potential application of 3D printing in designing bespoke and personalized pharmaceutical formulations. I am a senior Fellow of the HEA and active reviewer of Pharmaceutics journals including; Nature Scientific reports, RSC Advances,  BioMed Research International. I acted as an external examiner for a number of UK and overseas PhD students. Currently I am acting as the Chair of the Pharmacy Fitness to Practise Committee, serve as MPharm admission tutor and sits on the University Board of Governors and Senate. In 2015, I got Santander Travel award. I also received the Staff Commercial Entrepreneur award in 2018.

Academic responsibilities

Associate Professor in Pharmaceutics

Qualifications

  • PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Aston University
  • MSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Aston University
  • BSc in Pharmacy, Cairo University
  • PGCert in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 重口味SM

Teaching and learning

Considering the importance of Community of Practices (CoPs) as a strategy to engage students and researchers to work collaboratively, I used this approach to facilitate knowledge and experience sharing between students in order to enable inclusivity. I was interested in exploring the role a CoP could have in enhancing the students learning experience. I started this piece of pedagogic research in 2015 by collaborating with colleagues from the Centre for Higher Education Research and Practice (CHERP), Kingston UniversityLondon. The work helped me to design and implement new assessment activities (mini-project) within the drug design and medicine development module.

Feedback is viewed as a central feature of students' learning, not only during the time at the university but also beyond graduation. I am interested in assessing the students' preferences of feedback's modalities (Face to face, group feedback, electronic or written feedback) and qualities. Another project that I am involved in is the role of personal tutor scheme on the experience of university students.

I disseminated the outcomes of my pedagogic research at national conferences and pedagogic meetings across the UK. I also published my pedagogic research findings at international journals.

Qualifications and expertise

  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA; 2018)
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA; 2014)
  • Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA; 2012)

Undergraduate courses taught

Postgraduate courses taught

Research

During my academic career at 重口味SM, I developed a multi-disciplinary research group made of 8 PhD students, 1 research visitor and 1 post doctorate researcher. My research group worked in multiple projects around the area of development of drug delivery system of anti-diabetic drugs. My research group is trying to develop innovative technologies to enhance the quality of life of diabetic patients. We explore the use of 3D printing to design bespoke tablets for co-morbid diabetic patients. We are also designing new sustained release orodispersible tablets that target paediatrics and geriatrics to achieve a better compliance. In addition, my group designed a new nanoparticulate system that can sense glucose concentrations in diabetic patients and release insulin according to the body needs. The novel drug delivery system can potentially enable diabetic patients to have a better control on their blood glucose level and will offer a better quality of life for people with diabetes. A third project is looking at developing insulin inhalers using spray freeze drying technology. We also explore the use of contact lenses as a vehicle to deliver drugs into the eye. In order to ensure that our technologies suit the patients' needs, we always seek patients' opinions / inputs to inform our technology designs. My multi-disciplinary projects enabled me to collaborate with colleagues from different disciplines within and outside 重口味SM. Our fruitful collaboration is translated into a number of published high quality research outputs, and we  work together seeking funding through charities and research councils to expand the research projects. I acted as an external examiner for a number of UK and overseas PhD students.

Areas of specialism

  • Dosage form design
  • Orally disintegrating tablets (Orodispersibles)
  • 3D printing
  • Contact lenses for ocular drug delivery
  • Glucose sensitive delivery systems

Research student supervision

Main supervision

Other supervision

Publications

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Number of items: 55.

Article

Mohammed, Abdullah, Kovacev, Nikolina, , Melaibari, Ammar, Iqbal, Javed, , Essa, Khamis and Memic, Adnan (2023) Polymers, 15(9), p. 2229. ISSN (online) 2073-4360

Mohammed, Abdullah, Saeed, Abdu, , Melaibari, Ammar A., Memic, Adnan, Hassanin, Hany and Essa, Khamis (2023) Pharmaceuticals, 16(4), p. 627. ISSN (online) 1424-8247

, Ishizuka, Fumi, , Zetterlund, Per B. and (2023) Journal of Polymer Science, ISSN (online) 2642-4169 (Epub Ahead of Print)

, Ishizuka, Fumi, , , Zetterlund, Per B. and (2023) European Polymer Journal, p. 111819. ISSN (print) 0014-3057 (Epub Ahead of Print)

, Ishizuka, Fumi, , Zetterlund, Per B. and (2022) Polymer Chemistry, 13(25), pp. 3750-3755. ISSN (print) 1759-9954

Toukan, Nour, , and (2022) Respiratory Medicine, 194, p. 106772. ISSN (print) 0954-6111

Babenko, Mai, , , Kaialy, Waseem and (2022) International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 617, p. 121601. ISSN (print) 0378-5173 (Epub Ahead of Print)

, , and (2022) British Journal of Nutrition, 127(4), pp. 481-489. ISSN (print) 0007-1145

, Leadbitter, Debbie-Leigh M, Do Sacramento Menezes Da Trindade, Neusa, Jeyabalan, Ashveini, Dolton, Debbie and (2022) Frontiers in Education, 6, p. 727410. ISSN (online) 2504-284X

Sherif Amer, Sandra, Mamdouh, Wael, Nasr, Maha, , , Abdel-Aziz, Rasha T.A. and Sammour, Omaima A. (2022) International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 612, p. 121309. ISSN (print) 0378-5173

Ali Najmeddine, Ahmad, , and (2021) PharmaNutrition, 18, p. 100280. ISSN (online) 2213-4344

, , Hassanin, Hany and (2021) Pharmaceutics, 13(3), e358. ISSN (online) 1999-4923

, Babenko, Mai, Saaed, Maria, and (2021) Current Drug Delivery, 18(3), pp. 271-288. ISSN (print) 1567-2018

, Essa, Khamis, , Imbaby, Mohamed, El-Mongy, Heba H. and El-Sayed, Tamer A. (2021) Journal of Advanced Ceramics, 10(1), pp. 1-27. ISSN (print) 2227-8508

Langford, Thomas, Mohammed, Abdullah, Essa, Khamis, and Hassanin, Hany (2020) Applied Sciences, 11(1), e332. ISSN (online) 2076-3417

, Hassanin, Hany, and (2020) Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 109(12), pp. 3535-3550. ISSN (print) 0022-3549

Patel, Rahul, and (2020) International journal of molecular sciences, 21(21), p. 8224. ISSN (online) 1422-0067

Mohammed, Abdullah, , Sareh, Pooya, Elsayed, Mahmoud and (2020) International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 580, p. 119245. ISSN (print) 0378-5173

, , and (2020) British Journal Of Educational Technology, 51(2), pp. 590-606. ISSN (print) 0007-1013

Amer, Sandra Sherif, Nasr, Maha, Abdel-Aziz, Rasha T.A., Moftah, Noha H., , , Mamdouh, Wael and Sammour, Omaima (2020) International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 577, p. 119092. ISSN (print) 0378-5173

Babenko, Mai, , Kaialy, Waseem, , and (2019) International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 564, pp. 318-328. ISSN (print) 0378-5173

, Ahmadouk, Judy, Dhanji, Sumayya, El-bushra, Amani, and (2019) Contact Lens and Anterior Eye, 42(2), pp. 190-195. ISSN (print) 1367-0484

Al-Tamimi, Nouras, , and (2019) Canadian Journal of Diabetes, 43(1), pp. 27-33. ISSN (print) 1499-2671

, Begg, Nazish, , and (2018) Pharmaceutics, 10(4), p. 176. ISSN (print) 1999-4923

, Ahmed El-Sayed, Mahmoud, , Essa, Khamis and Jiang, Kyle (2018) Nanomaterials, 8(8), p. 593. ISSN (online) 2079-4991

, , , , and (2018) Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces, 163, pp. 91-99. ISSN (print) 0927-7765

, , , , and (2018) Nanomaterials, 8(1), p. 51. ISSN (online) 2079-4991

, Al-khattawi, Ali, Mohammed, Afzal R., Warzecha, Monika, Lamprou, Dimitrios A. and (2018) Pharmaceutical Development and Technology, 23(5), pp. 442-453. ISSN (print) 1083-7450

, , , Karam, Ayman, Najlah, Mohammad and (2018) Pharmaceutical Development and Technology, 23(7), pp. 732-738. ISSN (print) 1083-7450

, , , , El-Sayed, Mahmoud Ahmed and Essa, Khamis (2017) Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 5(47), pp. 9384-9394. ISSN (print) 2050-750X

Essa, Khamis, Modica, Francesco, Imbaby, Mohamed, El-Sayed, Mahmoud Ahmed, , Jiang, Kyle and (2017) The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 91(1-4), pp. 445-452. ISSN (print) 0268-3768

, , and (2017) Pharmacy & Pharmacology International Journal, 5(3), ISSN (online) 2379-6367

Elsayed, Ahmed, Elsayed, Eman, AL-Dadah, Raya, Mahmoud, Saad, and Kaialy, Waseem (2017) Applied Energy, 186(3), pp. 509-519. ISSN (print) 0306-2619

, , , Karam, Ayman, Najlah, Mohammad and (2016) International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 515(1-2), pp. 740-748. ISSN (print) 0378-5173

, , , Chaidemenou, Athina and (2016) Drug Delivery and Translational Research, 6(6), pp. 722-734. ISSN (print) 2190-393X

, , and (2016) Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning, 8(5), pp. 698-707. ISSN (print) 1877-1297

, , Kasar, Mohamad, Thapa, Sapana, and (2016) Pharmaceutics, 8(2), E14. ISSN (online) 1999-4923

Elwerfalli, A.M., , , and (2016) Current Drug Delivery, 12(6), pp. 652-667. ISSN (print) 1567-2018

Elwerfalli, Arwa Matoug, , and (2015) Carbohydrate Polymers, 131, pp. 447-461. ISSN (print) 0144-8617

, Kaialy, Waseem, Akhtar, Noreen, Iyire, Affiong, Hussain, Tariq, and Mohammed, Afzal R (2015) European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, 96, pp. 272-281. ISSN (print) 0939-6411

, Hanson, Peter and Mohammed, Afzal R. (2014) European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 62, pp. 124-131. ISSN (print) 0928-0987

, , and (2014) Therapeutic Delivery, 5(10), pp. 1085-1100. ISSN (print) 2041-5990

, Hanson, Peter and Mohammed, Afzal R (2013) European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, 83(3), pp. 468-476. ISSN (print) 0939-6411

Khan, Sheraz, , Rahman, Ayesha S., Hanson, Peter, Perrie, Yvonne and Mohammed, Afzal R. (2011) International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 417(1-2), pp. 272-279. ISSN (print) 0378-5173

Khan, Sheraz, , Rahman, Ayesha R., Hanson, Peter, Perrie, Yvonne and Mohammed, Afzal R. (2011) Journal of drug targeting, 19(8), pp. 615-623. ISSN (print) 1061-186X

, Khan, Sheraz, , Hanson, Peter and Mohammed, Afzal R (2011) Current Drug Delivery, 8(4), pp. 363-372. ISSN (print) 1567-2018

AlHusban, Farhan A, , Jones, Rhys J and Mohammed, Afzal R (2010) Recent Patents on Drug Delivery & Formulation, 4(3), pp. 178-197. ISSN (print) 1872-2113

AlHusban, Farhan, , Kansara, Jiteen H., Smith, Alan M., Grover, Liam M., Perrie, Yvonne and Mohammed, Afzal R. (2010) Pharmaceutics, 2(1), pp. 1-17. ISSN (online) 1999-4923

Book Section

Saeed, Maria and (2019) In: Seyfoddin, Ali , Dezfooli, Seyedehsara Massomi and Greene, Carol Ann, (eds.) Engineering drug delivery systems. Duxford, U.K. : Woodhead Publishing. pp. 203-228. ISBN 9780081025482

, , , Modica, Francesco and Fassi, Irene (2018) In: Gupta, Kapil, (ed.) Micro and precision manufacturing. Cham, Switzerland : Springer. pp. 145-164. (Engineering Materials) ISSN (print) 1612-1317 ISBN 9783319688008

, Imbaby, Mohamed, , El-Mongy, Heba H. and El-Sayed, Tamer A. (2016) In: Nalwa, H.S., (ed.) Encyclopedia of nanoscience and nanotechnology. American Scientific Publishers. pp. 185-212. 28 ISBN 1588832155

Conference or Workshop Item

, and (2020) In: Horizons in STEM Higher Education Conference : Making Connections, Innovating and Sharing Pedagogy; 01 - 02 Jul 2020, Nottingham, U.K. (Held online). (Unpublished)

, , Dolton, Debbie-Rose, Do Sacramento Menezes Da Trindade, Neusa and (2020) In: Horizons in STEM Higher Education Conference : Making Connections, Innovating and Sharing Pedagogy; 01 - 02 Jul 2020, Nottingham, U.K. (Held online). (Unpublished)

Patel, Rahul, and (2019) In: First Symposium on Synthesis & Drug Discovery; 01 Nov 2019, Kingston upon Thames, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Butt, U., , and (2014) In: American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Annual Meeting and Exposition; 02-06 Nov 2014, San Diego, U.S.. (Unpublished)

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Leadership and management

 I am an authentic, resilient and inclusive leader who values the contribution of my colleagues and team members. As an adaptive leader, I invest in building up the technical and professional competence of my team to strike any challenges we might face. My futuristic vision together with my inspiration helps me to motivate and empower my diverse team to work hard and smart towards achieving our goals and vision. I relay on technology to facilitate my leadership approach.

Board of governors member (Vice-Chancellor nominee)

As part of my role I participate in determining the educational character and mission of 重口味SM, oversee the financial viability of the University and contribute in making key policy decisions about the running of the University. I was also elected as a Senate member in July 2019.

Chair of the Pharmacy Fitness to Practise (FtP) Committee

My responsibility includes devising and updating the Pharmacy department FtP policy and procedures in collaboration with the committee members. I led the implementation of DBS and Health Checks for new Pharmacy students by liaising with our admission team, occupational health and pharmacy school office. I also oversee the FtP investigation hearings and train colleagues on conducting FtP investigations. I led the design of a new Pharmacy FtP webpage that is used as a platform to share our departmental FtP policy and procedures with the students and colleagues.

Admission Tutor for Pharmacy

I process UCAS applications for MPharm (B230) and Pharmacy foundation programmes (B231, F190) programmes. I work closely with the MPharm interview lead to organise and co-ordinate interviews for MPharm applicants. I also brief and train our MPharm colleagues on our recruitment process/strategy during the UCAS clearing cycle. I represents Kingston Universityat the Pharmacy Schools council admissions meetings to discuss strategies of recruiting pharmacy students.

Qualifications and expertise

  • Strategic Executive Development Programme for Diverse Leaders in Higher Education (StellarHE Programme, 2018)

University responsibilities

  • Board of Governors member (Vice-Chancellor nominee)
  • Elected Senate
  • Chair of the Pharmacy Fitness to Practise (FtP) Committee
  • Admission Tutor for Pharmacy

Public and CIVIC roles

  • Board of Governors member at St Albans Catholic School

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