Pharmacy Staff

Academic staff within the School come from a variety of backgrounds, including healthcare professionals from pharmacy and nursing, along with healthcare scientists and neuroscientists. In addition, we have a team of specialist technicians supporting our teaching and research activity.

Head of Aston Pharmacy School: Dr Joe Bush

Joe is a Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Joe teaches public health and evidence based practice across the MPharm and OSPAP courses, and his main areas of research interest are focussed on pharmacy’s public health function, pharmacist professionalism, service evaluation, medication adherence and pharmacy education.

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Key Roles

Deputy Head of Pharmacy: Mark Brennan (Reader)

Associate Head of Pharmacy (Research): Professor Afzal Mohammed (Professor)

Associate Head of Pharmacy (Education): Gagandeep Degun (Senior Teaching Fellow)

Associate Head of Pharmacy (Operations): Natalie Lewis (Senior Lecturer)

Head of Pharmacology: Professor David Poyner (Professor)

Head of Neuroscience: Professor Gavin Woodhall (Professor)

Head of Pharmaceutical Sciences: Dan Kirby (Lecturer)

Academic Staff

• Fatimah Abbas, Teaching Practitioner (Good Hope - University Hospitals Birmingham)
• Miss Rabia Ahmed, Teaching Fellow
• Dr Radeyah Ali, Teaching Fellow
• Dr Ali Al-khattawi, Lecturer
• Dr Raj Badhan, Lecturer
• Ms Kay Bhatara, Teaching Fellow
• Ms Gurkiran Birdi, Research Associate
• Ms Ruba Bnyan, Teaching Assistant
• Mr Mark Brennan, Associate Professorial Teaching Fellow
• Mrs Emma Bryant, Teaching Fellow – Psychiatric Therapeutics
• Dr Joe Bush, Head of Pharmacy and Senior Lecturer
• Dr John Butcher, Teaching Fellow
• Dr Douglas Caruana, Lecturer in Neuroscience
• Dr Felix Chan, Lecturer in Neuroscience
• Dr Alex Cheong, Senior Lecturer
• Professor Michael Coleman
• Ms Gagandeep Degun. Senior Teaching Fellow
• Mrs Anna Durkin, Senior Teaching Fellow
• Mrs Ruth Egbe. Teaching Fellow in Pharmacy
• Mrs Michelle Elston, Head of Professional Experiences
• Dr Bill Fraser, Lecturer
• Dr Stuart Greenhill, Associate Dean, Portfolio and Planning & Senior Lecturer
• Ms Hafsah Habib, Research Assistant
• Ms Noshin Haque, Teaching Fellow
• Ms Sima Hassan, Senior Teaching Fellow
• Arandeep Hayer, Teaching Practitioner (George Elliott Hospital)
• Mrs Jo Howe, Research Associate
• Mr Naveed Iqbal, Clinical Teaching Fellow
• Amaan Islam, Teaching Practitioner (City Hospital, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust)
• Mrs Affiong Iyire, Lecturer
• Mr David Jenkins, Postdoctoral Research Associate
• Ms Debbie Kemp, Teaching Fellow in Pharmacy
• Asiyah Khan Teaching Practitioner, Heartlands Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
• Dr Muhammad, Khan, Lecturer
• Muhammed Umar Khan, Teaching Practitioner (Knights Pharmacy)
• Dr Daniel Kirby, Senior Lecturer
• Professor Chris Langley, Deputy Dean External & Professor
• Ms Natalie Lewis, Senior Teaching Fellow
• Mrs Hannah Macfarlane, Senior Teaching Fellow
• Professor Ian Maidment,
• Professor Ms Nicole Marley, Research Assistant
• Jaime Miks, Teaching Practitioner (University Hospitals Coventry and Warwick)
• Ms Olivia Mina, Teaching Fellow
• Professor Afzal Mohammed Professor & Associate Dean, Knowledge Exchange and Impact
• Mr Dominic Mosses, Post Doctoral Research Associate
• Adaora Ndu, Teaching Practitioner (Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
• Professor Rhein Parri
• Professor David Poyner
• Mr Moortooza Puttaroo, Senior Teaching Fellow
• Ms Janet Randles, Project Manager
• Dr Dan Rathbone, Senior Lecturer
• Ms Bethan Rees, KTP Associate
• Dr Craig Russell, Lecturer
• Dr Rayan Sabra, Research Fellow (KTP Associate) Formulation and process development scientist
• Ms Ramandeep Sandhu, Teaching Fellow
• Celine Shaw, Teaching Practitioner (The Royal Orthopeadic Hospital)
• Mr Mangalpreet Singh, Teaching Fellow
• Mrs Emma Smith, Teaching Fellow
• Dr Hannah Somerfield, Research Associate Professor
• Ian Stanford
• Mr Roderick Stewart, Pharmaceutical Formulation Scientist – KTP Associate
• Dr David Terry, Senior Lecturer
• Rebecca Teece, Teacher Practitioner (Boots)
• Dr Jacqueline Tickle, Teaching Associate in Neuroscience
• Dr Manoj Upadhya, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
• Sukhraj Uppal Teaching Practitioner (Birmingham Women and Childrens Hospital NHS Trust)
• Dr Vasanthy Vigneswara Postdoctoral Research Associate
• Mr Annsar Warraich, Research Fellow
• Professor Gavin Woodhall
• Dr Sukhvir Wright, Clinical Research Career Development Fellow
• Dr Boubker Zaaimi, Lecturer