PharmaCon

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For this year's World Pharmacists Day, PharmDeeS, the departmental society of the Faculty of Pharmacy at Salim Habib University (SHU), organized a series of events. The final one of these was PharmaCon, a Pharmacy-centered event featuring a Quiz Competition and Panel Discussion, which was held on Thursday, September 29, 2022 at SHU.

The Panel Discussion at the event was themed 'Recent Technological Advancements in Pharmacy', and the brilliant panelists who brought it to life through the addition of their informed and valuable opinions on the topic were Dr. Sumbul Shamim, Principal, DOW College of Pharmacy, DOW University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Dr. Syed Adnan Rizvi, Director Drug Testing Laboratory (DTL) Sindh and Former Chief Drug Inspector, Sindh, Masood Ahmed Khan, RPh, Senior Manager Pharmacy Operation, DVAGO, Umaimah Muzzamil, General Manager Medical Affairs, Pharmevo, and Fraz Khalid, Business Unit Head, Martin Dow.

A challenging yet fun Quiz Competition also took place. Teams from several leading Pharmacy universities in Karachi, including DOW University of Health Sciences, University of Karachi, Jinnah Sindh Medical University, Jinnah University for Women, and Benazir Bhutto Shaheed University Lyari, Nazeer Hussain University, and Federal Urdu University participated in this competition. The winners were honored in a Prize Distribution Ceremony and awarded the Cash Prizes they had won. Winners of the PharmaSkills Poster Competition, held earlier in the week, were also awarded.