Associate Professor and Infectious Disease Pharmacy Consultant
King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia
Khalid Eljaaly, PharmD, MS, BCPS, BCIDP, FCCP, FIDSA graduated with a PharmD degree from King Abdulaziz University (KAU), in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He completed an ASHP-accredited PGY2 infectious disease (ID) pharmacy residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospital in Boston, MA. Then, he completed both an ID/antibiotic stewardship pharmacy postdoctoral fellowship and a Master of Science in clinical translational science at University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Dr. Eljaaly is currently an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Pharmacy and head of the Health Interprofessional Research Branch in the university vice-presidency for development at KAU. He is a consultant ID pharmacist and ID pharmacy Residency Program Director at KAU hospital. He was elected as the first chairman of the ID Pharmacy Specialty Network of the Saudi Society of Clinical Pharmacy. Dr. Eljaaly also serves as an honorary research fellow in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
He received several awards such as the IDWeek Trainee Award from the Infectious Diseases Society of America, both the Jonathan Freeman Scholarship and the International Scholarship Award from the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America, and the Literature Award for Innovation in Pharmacy Practice from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Foundation. Dr. Eljaaly is an antibiotic stewardship advocate through his verified Twitter account “Antibiotic Tweets” @khalideljaaly.