Meet our 2025 CVD Academy Ambassadors
North East London ICS
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Sabina Yasmin
Sabina is an Advanced Pharmacist at a GP practice in London. She specialises in the management of long-term conditions; delivering clinical expertise grounded in evidence-based medicine. Alongside her role, she also provides teaching and development support for local PCN pharmacists. She has previously held roles as a PCN pharmacist, community pharmacist and clinical lead for the COVID-19 Vaccination Programme.
View Sabina’s poster: Enhancing outcomes in type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease with novel treatments.
Aniqa Tahsin
Aniqa is a PCN Clinical Pharmacist and Independent Prescriber working for Hackney Marshes PCN. She has a strong foundation in clinical pharmacy having also worked as a rotational hospital pharmacist across various specialities. She has a passion for improving health outcomes, reducing health inequalities and a special interest in cardiovascular disease prevention.
View Aniqa’s poster: Driving better outcomes in chronic kidney disease and type 2 diabetes through evidence-based treatments.
Harjit Singh
Harjit is a principle GP Partner with over 30 years experience. He hopes to inspire his colleagues to participate in
health improvement programs to deliver improved outcomes. His main interests are cardiology and diabetes where he often handles complex cases.
View Harjit’s poster: Effective optimisation of lipids in primary care.
Majid Husein
Majid is a clinical pharmacist with a background in community pharmacy. He has experience of patient counselling, prescription management and community health promotion. He is passionate about providing the best, comprehensive care he can for his patients.
View Majid’s poster: Improving statin uptake for primary cardiovascular disease prevention in people living with HIV in primary care.
Manpreet Saini
Manpreet has been a qualified pharmacist since 2004 and has experience taking care of community services such as care homes and the urgent care centre. He was one of the first groups of pharmacists who were trained by CPPE to start working in a GP practice. He has recently completed his advanced clinical practice course.
View Manpreet’s poster: Chronic kidney disease coding.
North Central London ICS
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Saloni Kapoor
Saloni is a GP Partner and GP Lead at the Rapid Diagnostic Centre in North Middlesex Hospital. She is passionate about the role of lifestyle medicine in primary care and has a diploma in lifestyle medicine from the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine and the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine – as well as being a board-certified lifestyle medicine expert. She would like to see more holistic and personalised healthcare solutions in primary care.
View Saloni’s poster: Cardiometabolic risk in severe mental illness.
Reena Mandalia
Reena is a clinical pharmacist with over 8 years of experience in general practice. Her role involves conducting structured medication reviews, managing long-term conditions, overseeing DOAC monitoring and operating an INR clinic for warfarin management. She has experience as a Clinical Commissioning Group pharmacist, auditing care homes to ensure high standards of medication safety and compliance.
View Reena’s poster: Managing raised blood pressure in people aged 40-65.
Chanel Opoku-Acheampong
Chanel is a senior clinical pharmacist working in primary care within a PCN. She is an independent prescriber, specialising in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction. She has been a part of various multidisciplinary teams aiming to provide high quality evidence based care.
View Chanel’s poster: Heart failure accurate phenotype coding.
Rose MacDonald
Rose is a GP Partner helping to serve an inner-city population of 12,000 patients. She holds a degree in the History of Medicine from UCL and a medical degree from Royal Free and University College Medical School. She is also a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Her main areas of clinical interest are women’s health, mental health, metabolic health and longevity and she is a member of the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society.
View Rose’s poster: Secondary prevention lipid management.
Ogechukwu Ilozue
Oge is a GP Partner & Trainer and also works as an LMC chair and as a clinical advisor with the NHS England – London region vaccination programme. Cardiovascular health has been one of her interests since her medical junior doctor years.
View Oge’s poster: Cardiometabolic risk in patients with severe mental illness.
Mid and South Essex ICS
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Lionah Musengezi
Lionah is a Clinical Team Leader/Advanced Nurse Practitioner and currently works in a PCN providing clinical leadership whilst balancing a clinical workload. She also leads on clinical projects to help tackle health inequalities. She has worked with a charity organisation to promote health and disease prevention.
View Lionah’s poster: Hypertension case finding.
Christiana Lewis
Christiana is a Lead PCN Pharmacist with over a decade of experience. Drawing on her community pharmacy background, she brings a patient-centred approach, addressing diverse needs such as health literacy and language barriers. She has a particular interest in cardiovascular health and has implemented innovative initiatives, including hypertension clinics, to optimise patient care in her area.
View Christiana’s poster: Targeted hypertension management in ethnic minority males (30-60 years).
Alfreda Mafe
Alfreda is an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner with over 15 years experience across general practice, community pharmacy, and hospital settings. She has a background in cardiovascular, rheumatoid arthritis and respiratory medicine, complemented by expertise in clinical system infrastructure and organisational management.
View Alfreda’s poster: Optimising lipid-lowering therapy in Black and Asian patients with chronic kidney disease.
Find out more about this year’s CVD Academy here, or contact us for more information at cvdacademy@uclpartners.com