Sidra Awan

I received this message from a colleague in northern Gaza: It's day 14 of the siege imposed on Al-Shifa Medical complex. Based on testimonies from the medical staff inside, the situation as follows;

"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population. There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'. There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel. I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then. It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century. I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit! So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity. You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians. And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."

Our paper is out showing variation in steroid dosing for #iraes and describing all the out of hours calls to #acute oncology journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10… @philippajj @marshall_ernie @ACPUK @BOPACommittee

Delighted to report that @CMORE2improve fellow @Rafeeki4 has also had an accepted publication around out of hours calls for irAEs underlining the need for better patient & HCP education #steroids. Lots for @BOPACommittee to lead on!

We are recruiting participants for the 'The Fundamentals of Critical Care Clinical Pharmacy Course 2024'  the international course now in its 4th year provides 12 monthly sessions on ICU topics including CVD, respiratory, sepsis via live interactive seminars & other activities

@PaddaAmandeep @Jharchowal @mark_borthwick @frankjonhank @cathymac40 @SherlyMeilianti @Rafeeki4 @DrDereckG @2011YJ @charlot_summers @JimDown8 @devlinpharmd @judijacobi @zarbp002 @pwierusz please share 🙏

A leading proponent for practice-based research, @PinkieChambers passion to improve patient experience and outcomes for patients receiving chemotherapy has resulted in changes to clinical practice. A worthy inclusion #OPERA23 @uclh @School_Pharmacy pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/featur…

So important to call out govmnt spin that these are the largest pay rises in decades The reality is that these are FURTHER *brutal* pay cuts VS high inflation, to the groups in public sector who have already had the steepest pay erosion RT if you have enough of the pay cuts

Delighted to be theme co-lead & EDI lead for this work Look forward to expanding the team portfolio @CMORE2improve @PinkieChambers @Bobster1666 @DrDereckG @Rafeeki4 @panisphik @PaddaAmandeep @KennethKCMan @wallis_lau + @School_Pharmacy @BryonyDF @LiWeiUCL @_CNMAR_ colleagues

My first ever poster @HSRPPConference today #proudmoment 🥹

Ramadan and sport For the first time ever, we outline a pre-participation evaluation screening tool for athletes who fast, and your constructive comments would be welcome! @ExerciseIrfan @RifatHassan_ @HHHMMBENSAAD @sportsdrzaf @Haseeb2502 @Rafeeki4 Read: blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2023/03/2…

Data driven research, enabled by electronic health records, offering research closer to the patient at pace to all patients #FoE @_CNMAR_ @CMORE2improve @improvinguclh @gerriecoertzen @wai2k @PinkieChambers @Rafeeki4 @Jharchowal

Are you a patient that has ever had a hospital admission? We are running a focus group @CMORE2improve on March 8th virtually and would like to hear of your experiences with #pharmacists. Pls DM me if interested.

We are hosting another focus group to develop research around hospital pharmacist prioritisation. If you are a patient that has had an in- patient stay & want to help please contact me p.chambers@ucl.ac.U.K.

📍#JobOpportunity New post ✅ Cancer E&T Pharmacist Band 8a @uclh 3 years cancer experience ✅ Large cancer pharmacy team ✅ #oncology #haematology #CART #ATMP 👇 beta.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba… #nhsjobs Pls RT @BOPACommittee

We have a few places left for our course Fundamentals of crit care pharmacy. These will be HEE funded (so free) for English NHS pharmacists. Sign up quick. Please share and retweet. sites.google.com/view/fundament…

@Bobster1666 @uclh Well done Rob! Amazing achievement 👍

Long service award presented by Chief Executive Exec David Probert. 31 years at this great hospital. Where did the time go? @uclh.