Miss Zahra Mahomed

Job: Senior Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice

School/department: Leicester School of Pharmacy

Address: De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK

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Personal profile

Zahra is a senior lecturer in the School of Pharmacy, leading on embedding artificial intelligence to develop consultation skills for pharmacy students. she has a special interest in simulation and gamification in pharmacy education.
She teaches across the MPharm (Pharmacy) focussing mainly on clinical pharmacy practice, clinical reasoning and prescribing.
Outside of DMU, Zahra is a clinical pharmacist working at the PCN in Leicester, where she runs cardiovascular disease clinics.

Research group affiliations

Medicines Optimisation and Person-centred care research group

Publications and outputs

Mahomed, Z.A. and Aboo, A. (2025) ‘Use of Simconverse, an AI programme, within undergraduate pharmacy teaching at De Montfort University (DMU)’, Abstracts from the Pharmacy Education, Science and Practice Conference 2025 Part A, 18. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/20523211.2025.2485639.

Research interests/expertise

Simulation in pharmacy education

Areas of teaching

Clinical reasoning
Pharmacy Law and Ethics
Cardiovascular disease
Prescribing legally and professionally

Qualifications

MPharm (2017)
PGDip Clinical Pharmacy with Independent Prescribing (2021)
PGCert Empowering Education (2024)

Courses taught

MPharm - Pharmacy

Honours and awards

Best Oral Presentation (Pharmacy Education) 2025 - 2nd Prize (University of Qatar)

Professional licences and certificates

Registered Pharmacist and Independent Prescriber - General Pharmaceutical Council