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Mrs Beenal Rajyaguru

Job: Senior Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy

Faculty: Health and Life Sciences

School/department: Leicester School of Pharmacy

Address: ̽»¨ÏµÁÐ, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH

T: N/A

E: beenal.rajyaguru@dmu.ac.uk

 

Personal profile

Beenal Rajyaguru studied pharmacy at ̽»¨ÏµÁÐ and registered as a Pharmacist in 2007. Beenal worked as a Healthcare Assistant with Boots Pharmacy during her undergraduate training. She worked as a Community Pharmacist across several pharmacy stores before moving to an On Call Pharmacist role at the University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) NHS Trust. She specialized as a Paediatric Pharmacist in 2010, and completed her post graduate prescribing training specializing in children's allergies and immunotherapy for allergic rhinitis. She has also developed the competency and revalidation assessments for all pharmacists working at UHL NHS Trust. Beenal is now working at ̽»¨ÏµÁÐ within the Leicester School of Pharmacy as a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy.

Beenal is currently the lead academic for children's pharmacy within the MPharm programme and has introduced new topics into the MPharm curriculum developing teaching on medicines optimization in children and also on allergy and anaphylaxis, using simulation and active learning and teaching models. She has also held leadership responsibilities within the School including Head of Year for Level 5 MPharm Students and Module Leader for the Professional Portfolio module for Level 5 students. She also teaches on the Care of the Critically Ill Child postgraduate nursing programmes.

Beenal has a keen interest in researching the use of medicines in primary school children collaborating with LLR colleagues with the aim of improving the education and training of school staff on medicines use in children across Leicestershire and Rutland. She is also the Chair of the Local Advisory Board of a primary school in Leicestershire. 

Research group affiliations

Medicines Optimization and Person Centred Care Research Group

Areas of teaching

Medicines Optimization in Children, Allergy and Anaphylaxis

Qualifications

MPharm (Hons) (2006); Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy (2010); Masters Certificate in Fundamental Paediatric Pharmacy Practice (2018); Postgraduate Certificate in Postgraduate Certificate in Independent Prescribing (2019)

Courses taught

MPharm, Nursing - Children's Critical Care

Membership of professional associations and societies

  • Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (2007 to present)
  • Member of the Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacy Group (2010 to present)

Professional licences and certificates

Registrant of the General Pharmaceutical Council