Racha Sabbagh Dit Hawasli
Kingston University,UK
Biography
Racha Sabbagh Dit Hawasli is a Clinical Pharmacy Graduate from the Lebanese American University. She has worked in community and hospital pharmacy settings before going into research. She is currently a PhD Researcher at Kingston University London, working on the diffusion of innovation in health, more specifically, the feasibility of ambulatory chemotherapy in Lebanon. She expanded her research topic to include occupational exposure to cytotoxic drugs in academic and healthcare settings. Her expertise lies in quantitative and qualitative methodologies and pharmacoeconomic modeling as she has conducted several assessments in this context over the past 4 years. She has also established strong connections with experts from the UK in occupational exposure, and is currently working on setting guidelines for the safe handling of cytotoxic drugs in academic research laboratories. She has several publications in international journals, and presented part of her work as posters at two annual meetings for the British Oncology Pharmacy Association (BOPA). She is a member of the International Society of Oncology Pharmacy Practitioners (ISOPP).