Ahmed Mohamed Hussein Babiker, Head of Registration and Drugs Pricing Section, Pharmacy and Drug Control at the Ministry of Public Health; Dr Ahmed Awaisu, CPH Associate Professor of Pharmacy and Course Coordinator of Drugs in Sport; Afif Mohamed Ali, Ham
Qatar University College of Pharmacy (QU-CPH) recently held a workshop titled “Drugs in Sports II”, aimed at exploring the use and misuse of drugs by athletes and defining the roles and responsibilities of health care practitioners and athlete support personnel.
Organised by CPH Continuing Professional Development for Health Care Practitioners (CPD-HCP) Program, the event attracted around 90 health care practitioners, scientists and researchers from various health care institutions across Qatar including pharmacists, physicians, and nurses.
The keynote speaker was Dr David Mottram, Emeritus Professor at Liverpool John Moores University’s School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences and who is also collaborating with CPH in the development of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes on drug use in sports. He gave a presentation on “Current issues in Doping and Anti-Doping in Sports”.
The programme agenda comprised 4 plenary discussions facilitated by CPH Associate Professor of Pharmacy and Coordinator of the CPD Program Dr Nadir Kheir, CPH Associate Professor of Pharmacy and Course Coordinator of Drugs in Sport Dr Ahmed Awaisu, Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) Clinical Pharmacy Specialist Mr Afif Mohamed Ali, Head of Registration and Drugs Pricing Section, Pharmacy and Drug Control at the Ministry of Public Health Mr Ahmed Mohamed Hussein Babiker, and CPH PharmD students Aya Issa and Somaia Abdelaziz.
Discussions focused on “Inadvertent doping (Case Study of Maria Sharapova)”, “Therapeutic Use Exemption (Case Study of Fancy Bears Cyber Hack and Bradley Wiggins)”, “Sanctions by Anti-Doping Organizations (The McLaren Report and Controversies surrounding sanctions for Russian athletes at the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games)”, and “Prohibition of Glucocorticoids in Sports (Current issues and future directions)”.
CPH Dean Dr Mohammad Diab said: “This timely event that aligns with the priorities of Qatar, has become a regional and global hub for sports. It also underlines CPH commitment to raise its students’ awareness on issues that are of interest of society."
