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Featured Speakers
Prepare for an exhilarating journey into how pharmacy is set to transform healthcare! Join our inspiring speakers Reena Patel, Aris Saoulidis, and Gemma Quinn and Neil Hardy as uncover amazing opportunities and real challenges in the system. Together, they'll present collaborative strategies to ensure that innovation enhances care, fosters inclusion, and guarantees long-term sustainability for our pharmacy workforce and services. Seize this opportunity to be part of the transformation!
Reena Patel
MPharm, PGDip, IP
Senior Healthcare Strategy Consultant & Principal Pharmacist
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Reena is a pharmacist, clinical safety officer, and senior healthcare strategist with over 15 years’ experience across primary, secondary, and system-level care. She specialises in digital innovation, healthcare transformation, population health management, and workforce development. A UN Women UK Delegate and national advisor, Reena leads transformation in long-term condition management, women’s health and integrated care. She also mentors women and men in career development & leadership, promoting work-life balance and personal fulfilment through diverse careers.
Aris Saoulidis
MPharm, PgD, MSt, IP, MRPharmS
Senior pharmacist, NHS East Genomics
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Aris Saoulidis is a senior pharmacist with a professional interest in genomics, the managed and systematic implementation of medicines and medicines optimisation, and the transformation related to these systems. Based at East Genomics and Cambridge University Hospitals as clinical pharmacy lead for genomics, Aris is passionate about harnessing the potential of genomic medicine in medicines use, develop the workforce, and raise the pharmacy profile in genomics. He is currently the UKCPA’s Genomics Committee Lead for Education, Consultations, and Test Applications and current rotating vice-chair leading on the development of genomics in pharmacy resources and collaborating with stakeholder organisations. Aris is also working to integrate safe, effective, and reliable artificial intelligence in personalised medicine and clinical genomics workflows and workforce education. Finally, Aris is a guest lecturer at the University of Cambridge and guest researcher collaborating on novel areas in pharmacogenomics and personalised medicine.
Gemma Quinn
MPharm,DPharm
Head of School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of Bradford
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Dr Gemma Quinn is the current Head of School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences at the University of Bradford She leads the MSc/PG Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy (Secondary Care) and oversees all postgraduate clinical pharmacy programmes. With a hospital pharmacy background, her academic journey is rooted in advancing healthcare education through active learning, including team-based learning (TBL), which she has championed since 2012. Dr. Quinn earned a Doctorate in Pharmacy in 2017, focusing on workplace learning during pre-registration training, and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Their teaching spans undergraduate to advanced practice levels, and they’ve contributed to national pharmacist education reforms. A strong advocate for academic quality and constructive alignment, they also serve on multiple university and national committees. Recognised for excellence with awards such as the Vice-Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award and a CATE Award, Dr. Quinn remains dedicated to shaping competent, reflective, and professional healthcare practitioners.
Neil Hardy
BPharm Hons PGDip (Prescribing Science) MRPharmS
Chief Pharmacist to NHS Hampshire
Neil studied at the University of Bath and qualified as a pharmacist in 1983. He started his career as a hospital pharmacist holding posts in Winchester, Southampton and Edinburgh. In 1992 Neil took up the post of pharmaceutical adviser in Hampshire to work with the medical adviser to establish a prescribing support function for GPs. Neil has continued to provide pharmaceutical advice and support to GPs and community pharmacists for a number of primary care organisations.
Neil was appointed as Chief Pharmacist to NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB in July 2024 and is the professional secretary to the HIOW Prescribing Committee which is responsible for improving the quality, safety and cost effectiveness of medicines use across the ICS.
