The Dean of the College of Pharmacy, Associate Professor Dr. Sarmed H. Kathum Alkhateeb was invited to participate in the initial workshop to announce the initiative of building the capacity of industrial pharmacists established by Dr. Haider Fouad Al–Sayegh, the Head of the Iraqi Syndicate of pharmacists. The Head of the Pharmaceutics Department, Khalid Kadhum Al-Kinani, and the Pharmaceutical Industry Affairs Advisor in the Syndicate of pharmacists also participated as a rapporteur for the workshop and in the presence of a number of prominent figures in the pharmaceutical industry a number of faculty members and graduate students from our college. The workshop included numerous lectures whose lecturers talked about many details concerning the pharmaceutical industry and the obstacles encountered and how to overcome them. The workshop ended with recommendations, the most important of which was the need for cooperation between all Academic, Ministerial and trade union institutions to promote the reality of the pharmacy profession in general and especially the pharmaceutical industry.
