Professor Angeni Bheekie is calm and gentle in manner but her passion for pharmacy brings out a fired-up lecturer who aims to change the face of pharmacy. “People generally don’t know what a pharmacist is or does,” says Angeni Bheekie a Professor of Pharmacology. Her service learning programme and research is attempting to change the way in which society and pharmacology students view pharmacists. Professor Bheekie is researching the most effective approach to motivate pharmacy students to become and be seen as “active members rather than dormant dispensers.” She speaks about pharmacists with so much pride it makes you feel as if they are the superheroes of the medical field. Pharmacists seem to play the ‘mundane’ role which people see in every day encounters but then behind-the-scenes they are actually saving lives and changing the medical profession.
