Prof. Saleh A. Bawazir

Position: Prof. of Clinical Pharmacy & CEO of Bawazir Pharma Consulting Center
Categories: RA Speakers 2024

Professor Bawazir took the lead as a pioneer in clinical pharmacy practice and contributed enormously to spread the concept of clinical pharmacy among the pharmacists and health care professionals in Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, Professor Bawazir was elected as a chairman for clinical pharmacy department and a member of the college of pharmacy board in 1986. Professor Bawazir is a founding member of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society (SPS) in 1988 and Saudi Hypertension Management Group in 2001 and Saudi Hypertension Management Society (SHMS) in 2009.

At national and international level, he chaired many committees such as registration committee for pharmaceutical products, Pharmacy & Therapeutic Committee, Committee for Reviewing Pharmacy Law and Regulations, Committee for Drugs and Medical Supplies for Hajj, Advisory committee for the National Center for Alternative and Herbal Medicine, Committee for Pricing of Pharmaceuticals, and WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations.

For more than 12 years Prof. Bawazir worked as an advisor to the Executive Office for the Health Ministers of the Arabian Countries on the Gulf. Professor Bawazir worked for eight years as an advisor to the Minister of Health for pharmaceuticals.
For the last ten years Professor Bawazir worked as vice president for drug affairs and advisor at the SFDA. During his work he led the drug sector development through a strategic plan and managed to establish a state of the art drug regulatory system that ensure quality, safety and efficacy of the pharmaceutical products and contributed positively to overall public health
In May 2015 professor Bawazir retired from King Saud University and Saudi Food and Drug Authority and he established Bawazir Pharma Consulting Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.