The first Pharmacist who joint the animal Health field since more than 10years.

Currently the acting Director of National Laboratories Department, Ministry of Climate Change and

 

Have held  several positions in the past  9 years : head of the veterinary technical committee for veterinary licenses in UAE ,Head of the technical committee of Veterinary products,  UAE delegate in the GCC Animal wealth committee, UAE Focal point for Animal Health and veterinary products to the international organization for animal Health (OIE), UAE Focal point in Focal point in Antimicrobial resistance in the animal field (FAO- WHO) and Member of national committee of implementation of the international health regulation IHR and Pandemic.

Currently, OIE delegate for UAE

 

The Main Achievements:

The Halalna initiative, where a new work method has been set up, where enforcing the human resources of all the emirates in one day to target one emirates to implement the national immunization program that aims to standardize the type and time of vaccination in all Emirates and maximize the benefit from this the program.

proposed national policies and plans, including the National Animal Health Plan, which was adopted in 2016, which works to eliminate the 4 most important animal diseases of economic priority and contribute to achieving food security

Qualifying and developing UAE National and qualifying them for the labor market.

Rick is the Technical Director for HealthforAnimals, the global industry association, and for AnimalhealthEurope, theEuropean industry association, representing manufacturers of veterinary medicinal products.

Rick has worked for the European industry association since 1997, where his main task is to bring improvements to the European regulatory environment governing veterinary medicinal products (VMPs), through regular dialogue with decision makers within the European institutions and the European medicines regulatory network.
More recently his focus has included bringing more regulatory convergence at a global level in the interests of improving access to veterinary medicines in developing regions. He is a membe)of the VICH steering committee (International Cooperation on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of VMPs). In his global role he promotes the HealthforAnimals objectives for efficient regulatory systems through regulatory convergence and regulatory best practice.

Prior to joining the industry associations, he has worked as a Product Development and Registration Manager for ectoparasiticides. He began his career in the area of clinical diagnostics and antibiotic detection methods and is author of a patent in clinical diagnostics. In 1982 he graduated from Brunel University, London, with a degree in Applied Biology, and in 1994 he obtained a diploma in Marketing from Cambridge College. He was first author of the chapter on Veterinary Medicinal Products’ in *Fundamentals of EU Regulatory Affairs’, published by the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS) (2002, 2004).

He is an Honorary Life Member of TOPRA (The Organization for Professionals in Regulatory Affairs).

Through the years within different organizations, I have learned how it is hard to bring the right people together, give them support to work as one team towards a common goal and find creative solutions for the unusual business challenges. Being a Regional Regulatory Affairs Director for EEMEA region based in Monheim, Germany, I restructured the hub and was able to manage several turnarounds the region, making sure that RA systems were updated, as well as improving the submission and approval timelines and archiving situations. In addition, I was excited to take part in developing countries closing models, putting together the Central Transfer Plan (CTP) and lead the global MAH concept development. As well, prepare the separation plans for the major 50 countries globally with colleagues across multiple regions (US, EEA, APAC, LATAM and EEMA) and time zones in a genuine, professional as well as friendly attitude. With all my combined education and experiences, I find it very suitable to a global management position in the Regulatory Affairs and R&D field.

Through the years within different organizations, I have learned how it is hard to bring the right people together, give them support to work as one team towards a common goal and find creative solutions for the unusual business challenges. Being a Regional Regulatory Affairs Director for EEMEA region based in Monheim, Germany, I restructured the hub and was able to manage several turnarounds the region, making sure that RA systems were updated, as well as improving the submission and approval timelines and archiving situations. In addition, I was excited to take part in developing countries closing models, putting together the Central Transfer Plan (CTP) and lead the global MAH concept development. As well, prepare the separation plans for the major 50 countries globally with colleagues across multiple regions (US, EEA, APAC, LATAM and EEMA) and time zones in a genuine, professional as well as friendly attitude. With all my combined education and experiences, I find it very suitable to a global management position in the Regulatory Affairs and R&D field.

As the world’s leading animal health company, Zoetis exists to nurture our world and humankind by advancing care for animals.  With nearly 70 years of experience innovating a leading portfolio and pipeline of medicines, vaccines, diagnostics, and technologies, we stand by those caring for animals by providing solutions worldwide.

Sally has more than 20 years’ experience in Regulatory Affairs for veterinary medicines, initially with Pfizer Animal Health and now with Zoetis.  In 2014, she assumed responsibility for Regulatory Affairs in markets in in Central and Eastern Europe (EU and non-EU), the Middle East and Africa, and in 2020 she also took responsibility for Affiliate Quality in the same region.

Sally holds a BSc (Hons) Toxicology & Pharmacology from the University of London.  She also holds degrees in English Law (LLB), Modern Languages (BA) and Business Administration (MBA) and she is a Fellow of The Organisation for Professionals in Regulatory Affairs (FTOPRA).  She is British and has lived in Belgium since 2010.

Ahmed El Demerdash is the Territory Technical Consultant Saudi, Gulf region & PK at ELANCO. He has 23 years’ experience in poultry industry in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Gulf & middle east region in technical consultations, lab diagnosis, management, quality control, poultry diseases and nutrition.

Dr. Ahmed has a bachelor’s degree in veterinary medicine 1999, Masters’ degree in poultry viral diseases 2003 & a PhD in evaluation of vaccination programs by ELISA monitoring 2017.