American Pharmacist Society
Board of Directors
Sahar Mazhar
Sahar Mazhar graduated as Pharm-D from IPS, UVAS Pakistan in 2013. She came to the U.S. in 2015 and obtained Texas Pharmacist license. She worked in a retail pharmacy for 2-3 years with her last position as Clinical pharmacist where she realized that she wants to pursue her passion of opening clinical services based company and serve community’s healthcare needs. Now, she owns a company “PharmaCription, LLC” that offers Pharmacist-led clinical services to Physicians. She has deep passion to serve community and to give back to her profession due to which she started Pharmacist based group in Texas and now founded American Pharmacist Society with aim of giving back to her profession. With her aim to serve community Sahar is pursuing MPS – Healthcare administration degree from UTHealth School of Public Health.
Ehtesham Ul Haq
Haq graduated from the University of Karachi, Pakistan in 2011. He started his career in pharmaceutical sales and project management with Getz Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi Aventis.
From 2012-2015, he worked as a Product Manager (Pharmaceutical Marketing) at Sami Pharmaceuticals. He was an admin of Pharmacy Graduates Association and Pharmacy career solutions in Pakistan which help newly graduated pharmacists to get into pharmaceutical industry. From 2016 to 2019, he worked as a Pharmacy Technician, an Inventory Specialist, a Pharmacist-Intern in CVS health and Acaria specialty Centene Corporation, in Houston TX. He also worked as a Pharmacy Tech and Pharmacy Intern at Spring Hospital. He became a licensed RPh in TX in Sept 2020, and is currently working as a Pharmacist at CVS Pharmacy/Health. He is also working for Spring staffing services and Houston Health Department as PRN Pharmacist/Immunizer.
Ghalib Abbasi
Dr. Ghalib Abbasi is the System Director of Pharmacy Informatics at Houston Methodist Health System in Houston, Texas. He received his Doctor of Pharmacy and Master of Science Degrees from the University of Iowa, and his MBA degree from West Texas A&M University. During his tenure, Dr. Abbasi has worked in several pharmacy settings including community, hospital, and industry. He has spent the last decade and half of his career in the field of pharmacy informatics, where he heavily contributed towards the progress of this niche section of the profession. Dr. Abbasi has several publications and US patents in the fields of pharmacy informatics, operations, and finance. He continues to be an active member in several national and international pharmacy organizations and networks.