PharmaceuCare

The Author

Kyrillos Guirguis (BSc BPharm MClinPharm AACPA) is an accomplished pharmacist with extensive experience in both hospital and community pharmacy. His areas of expertise include chronic disease management, cardiology, respiratory medicine, endocrinology and geriatrics. He consulted in Heart Failure and Respiratory clinics in the public health system, was a Surgical Team Leader leading a skilled team of pharmacists and a Pain Specialist Pharmacist working alongside specialist anaesthetists.

He has exceptional skills in education and mentoring at all levels, from pharmacy students & interns, to practising hospital and community pharmacists. This is in addition to his role as the Education Quality Manager for a large GP training organisation. In this role, he has overall responsibility for the quality of the specialist training that GP registrars receive to become Fellows of RACGP/ACRRM.

Kyrillos has a special interest in research and was the Principal Investigator for a respiratory clinical trial and conducted several research projects. He has high-impact research publications in international peer reviewed journals, and is regularly invited to present at international conferences. He is also a reviewer for Patient Education & Counselling and the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacists.