BSc Pharmacy, MSc Clinical Pharmacy

Hiba is a doctoral student in Public Health. Her doctoral research focuses on examining the impact of multilevel factors affecting drug-prescribing errors in inpatients, and the optimization of clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) to improve safety of medication treatment. Hiba obtained her Master of Science in Clinical Pharmacy from the Hebrew University, during which she investigated the effectiveness of antibiotic lock therapy in hematoncology children with Catheter Related Blood Stream Infection (CRBSI). Currently, she is a clinical pharmacist at the Clalit Health Services with expertise in CDSSs, Clinical informatics, Medication safety, and antimicrobial stewardship.

Accomplishments:

• Developed and implemented a clinical decision support system responsible for assessing medication safety for a large investigational study.
• Worked with product designers and product managers to design user interfaces in clinical applications.
• Datamined large healthcare datasets utilizing SQL report writing.

Skill Highlights: Electronic health record and Clinical Decision support system specialist, Clinical Pharmacy practice experience, SQL report generation and analysis, Clinical informatics, Medication safety, project management, workflow optimization.

Research interests include medication safety, antimicrobial stewardship and CDSS.