Associate Professor, Pharmacy Practice Department, King Abdulaziz University
Consultant, Critical Care Pharmacy, King Abdulaziz University Hospital
Director, Critical Care Pharmacy Residency Program, King Abdulaziz University Hospital
Founder, Saudi Critical Care Pharmacy Research (SCAPE)Platform
Ohoud Aljuhani, PharmD, BCCCP, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice, at the Faculty of Pharmacy at King Abdulaziz University. Program director for the critical care pharmacy residency and Consultant Critical Care Pharmacist at King Abdulaziz University Hospital. Additionally, she has served as the first chair for critical acre and emergency medicine pharmacists’ network at Saudi Society of Clinical Pharmacy, this network group is the first official representation for critical care and emergency medicine pharmacy in Saudi Arabia. She is one of founder for the Saudi critical care pharmacy research platform. Also, she is the main preceptor for pharmacy trainee (Interns and residents) in critical care units including medical and surgical ICUs. She is the lead person in several critical care-related projects and research. She focuses on critical care medicine, including post ICU survivors' outcomes, ICU protocols developments and implementation, trauma and life support, pain, sedation, ICU delirium management, and COVID-19 management in critical settings.
Aljuhani completed an ASHP accredited general pharmacy residency followed by an ASHP accredited specialized pharmacy residency in Critical Care Pharmacy from the University of Arizona Medical center (Level one trauma center), Tucson, AZ, USA. Then, she received a two years of post-doctorate fellowship specialized in Critical Care clinical research from the college of pharmacy at the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA. She was among the first group of pharmacists in the world who passed the board certification in critical care pharmacy (BCCCP) exam in its first version. Aljuhani is a peer reviewer for several national and international journals. She has published several critical care-related papers and book chapters. She was one of the main writers for the Critical Care Pharmacotherapy textbook's foreword published by ACCP in its first edition. She has received the best fellow research travel award by the ACCP global conference in 2015 and several other national research related awards.
Her areas of research interest include critical care research related to trauma and life support, acute pain, sedations, ICU delirium, analgesia, fluids management, patients related health outcomes, COVID-19 management in critical settings and post ICU survivors' quality of life. Her primary role in academia involves teaching and training for critical care and emergency medicine topics, life-threatening infections, pharmacy practice related topics such as professionalism, communications, and research skills. Also, providing academic advising and career counseling, mentoring for undergraduate and postgraduate students, pharmacy residents and junior pharmacists.