Mehmet Arabaci

Predominantly remote role: 90% remote; 10% on-site

• Increase the departments capacity to run more trials by optimising standard operating procedures for the implementation and management of clinical trials.
• Reduce the time it takes to implement trials and open recruitment by incorporating a clear application and review process for all new trials.
• Utilise video and teleconferencing tools to collaborate with colleagues, the wider multidisciplinary team and to facilitate training on trial procedures.
• Incorporate regulatory compliant trial procedures by working closely with the director of CCTL, the production manager, quality manager and pharmacy department as a cross functional team

Hybrid Working Role: 50% remote: 50% on-site

• Opened more than 25 commercial trials to recruitment and helped beat the team record for number of trials opened in a single week, collectively 8, by effectively managing multiple project timelines.
• Enhanced workload transparency and remote collaboration by leading the implementation of Microsoft Teams and Edge Clinical.
• Facilitated the set up and day to day running of clinical trials by liaising with the wider multi-disciplinary team (sponsors, CRO’s, PI, nurses, aseptic preps, etc) and producing local procedural documentation.
• Integrated regulatory compliant trial procedures by adhering to the requirements of GCP, GMP, EU Clinical Trials Regulation (Pre-Brexit) and The Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004 (UK), MHRA, Ethics (REC), HRA, and CUH policy.

On-site role

• Facilitated the safe, legal and prompt supply of medicines and pharmacy services by managing small teams of 2 – 6 pharmacy professionals (healthcare assistants, pharmacy dispensers and pharmacy technicians).
• Clients: Asda, Brompton Pharmacy, BUPA Homecare, Clockwork Pharmacy, Day Lewis,  Island Pharmacy, Sainsburys and Tesco

On-site role

• Reduced inventory waste by optimising order quantities based on average use; generated from the pharmacy patient medical record system (PMR) and cash register (till).
• Increased customer satisfaction by improving the number of services offered, customer service and cultivating personal relationships; prescription items processed increased 10% year-on-year.
• Executed advanced services commissioned by the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework for the benefit of patient health outcomes and to increase business revenue by £12,000 per annum.
• Mentored a pre-registration pharmacist who went on the register and practice as a UK Pharmacist.
• Launched three new services through the patient group directives (PGD) framework to add additional revenue streams to the business and increase patient access to medicines: antimalarial prophylaxis, erectile disfunction and a travel vaccination service.

Training by study365 an accredited facility by AXELOS limited 

A course designed to help design and conduct successful clinical trials. Build skills for conducting successful and impactful clinical trials.

Topics Covered: Project management basics | Fundamental project management theory and best practices | Tools: Gantt charts, Critical Path Method, Project Plan, Budgets | Agile project management + SCRUM | The philosophy of Waterfall project management

Part of the Centre for Advanced Therapies Manufacturing Training.

Topics covered: Basic cell biology that underpins ATMP medicines | Technologies that are used to create ATMP medicines | Differences between point of care and centralized manufacturing – and implications on delivery to the patient | Sources of risk in delivering cell products to the clinic | Overview of the GMP manufacturing facility

Topics Covered:  The regulatory framework to manufacture medicines | GMP/GDP Considerations for manufacture sites | An introduction to microbiology | Microbiology considerations for GMP facilities

Topics Covered: GCP/GMP legislation (including preparation for inspection) | clinical trial set-up and management | manufacture of IMPs and QP release | clinical trials in specialist areas.

Renewed every 2 years.
Last Renewed December 2021: GCP Refresher + GCP for IMP Management

A cutting-edge overview from academia and industry of the latest innovations in clinical trial design and digital methodology.

Four-year Masters degree (MPharm) teaching the knowledge and practical skills needed to become a pharmacist. Grade 2.1 (with Honours); followed by 1 year placement prior to GPhC registration

Dissertation: Analysing Methods used in Population Pharmacokinetic (POP-PK) Studies with Regards to Correlations between Covariates (A meta-analysis)

Chemistry (A) Biology (A) Geography (B) Physics AS (A)