Hannah Beba and Alia Gilani - EASD Highlights

Hannah Beba - RPS approved Consultant Pharmacist working at Leeds Health and Care Partnership (part of West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership)

Hannah is one of the few Consultant Diabetes Pharmacists in the UK, Chair of the Diabetes Steering Group and Expert Reference Group for cardio-renal-metabolic medicine in Leeds. Further afield, Hannah is a committee member of both the Council of Healthcare Professionals at Diabetes UK and for the Primary Care Diabetes Society. Hannah also supports students on the University of Warwick MSc Programme. Hannah’s appointment takes her into a primary care focused, integrated care role. Hannah believes that here there are fantastic opportunities for multidisciplinary teams to provide holistic, unparalleled care to people living with diabetes. Hannah is driven to tackle inequalities in care and looks to tackle this in her forward agenda.

Alia Gilani- Senior Diabetes Clinical Pharmacist

Alia is a Senior Diabetes Clinical Pharmacist whose interests lie in ethnic inequalities and diabetes. She helped established and run a bi-lingual medication review service in NHS Glasgow in 2002. This was the “MELT” service (Minority Ethnic Long Term medicines Service) which operated for an over a decade. The MELT was an open referral medication review service which allowed referrals to be received from both primary and secondary care. She has received several awards for her work in which the service has been recognised both locally and nationally. She has chaired the NHS Glasgow Diabetes Ethnicity and Inequalities Group in the past.