Event Calendar

Start Date: 12/8/2026 2:00 PM CST
End Date: 12/8/2026 3:00 PM CST

Venue Name: Virtual Event via Zoom

Organization Name: Iowa Pharmacy Association

Speaker: 
Shabbir Imber Safdar, CFE
Executive Director, Partnership for Safe Medicines

Speaker Bio:
Shabbir Imber Safdar has served as the Executive Director of the Partnership for Safe Medicines since 2017. Before that he served as a consultant to PSM for nearly a decade. Shabbir is passionate about patient safety and the dangers of counterfeits, having seen them firsthand the dangers of counterfeits in countries around the world where a closed, secure drug supply chain doesn't exist.

The Partnership for Safe Medicines, founded in 2003, is a not for profit focused entirely on researching the danger of counterfeit drugs in America and educating the public about how to stay safe from them.

Today Shabbir leads the Partnership for Safe Medicines team from San Francisco, CA where he lives with his wife and two children. He teaches archery to adults and youth in his spare time.