{"id":674,"date":"2021-12-10T13:38:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T13:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/?p=674"},"modified":"2022-11-07T09:55:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T09:55:49","slug":"emmanuel-idowu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2021\/12\/10\/emmanuel-idowu\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmanuel Idowu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Part-time MBA 2021, UK<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1><strong><em>&#8220;The man who says he can, and the man who says he can&#8217;t are both correct. Always have a &#8216;can do&#8217; attitude.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I am a Senior Pharmacist and the Medication Safety Officer at Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust.<\/p>\n<p>I completed my first degree in Microbiology and then studied Pharmacy. After qualifying and registering as a practicing pharmacist, I started my career working as a hospital clinical pharmacist in the NHS. Over the last 15 years, I have worked at three different NHS hospitals during which I have taken up different roles including specialist roles, leading and managing teams.<\/p>\n<p>My professional interest is in leadership and quality improvement. I am an avid football fan and enjoy all forms of outdoor activities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Achievements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In my role as lead Antimicrobial Pharmacist, I helped my organisation in implementing the antimicrobial stewardship programmes and achieving the national CQUIN targets<\/li>\n<li>I lead the designing and development of a clinical pharmacy service within the surgical directorate in an hospital<\/li>\n<li>As independent pharmacist prescriber, I have been running my own independent clinics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What attracted you to the Kent MBA programme and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Kent Business School is triple accredited and the MBA Programme is well recognised for its quality. I like the way the programme is designed particularly the combination of academic teaching and application to practice.<\/p>\n<p>I found out about the MBA programme through my workplace and the University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/digital-lifelong-learning\/apprenticeships\/employing-an-apprentice\/senior-leader#:~:text=The%20Senior%20Leader%20apprenticeship%20is,and%20develop%20an%20innovative%20mindset.\">Senior Leader Apprenticeship Programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aspiration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On completing the MBA programme, I will be looking to take up the role of a Chief Pharmacist in the NHS or similar senior management positions outside of the NHS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have a vision, be courageous and realistic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part-time MBA 2021, UK &#8220;The man who says he can, and the man who says he can&#8217;t are both correct. Always have a &#8216;can do&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2021\/12\/10\/emmanuel-idowu\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74554,"featured_media":676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[249096],"tags":[187377,249099],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}