Sam is a national award-winning pharmacist with local, national and international experience. Sam is currently working as a Manager and the UK Centre of Health Solutions. Prior to joining the Centre, Sam was reporting to the Chief Pharmacist at Bart’s Health delivering projects in service redesign and electronic prescribing as well as developing and implementing a service model for extemporaneous medications for critical care in response to COVID-19. Previously, Sam held a national role as the Chief Pharmaceutical Officers’ Clinical Fellow at NHS England Specialist Pharmacy Service and NHSX, where she led various national projects on medicines use and governance, safety and digital healthcare, including the national scoping exercise on the use of barcode technology in medicines administration. 

Sam is part of the 12 commonwealth health partnerships’ for the antimicrobial stewardship initiative, an NHS England Clinical Entrepreneur, and a pre-doctoral fellow at Health Education England. Sam is also an associate of both the Faculty of Clinical Informatics and the Institute of Healthcare Management. Sam has a Master of Pharmacy (Hons); Diploma in Pharmacy Practice and Diploma in Healthcare Research Methods.