For more than two decades, Dr. Majid Ali has lived at the meeting point of clinical pharmacy and higher-education pedagogy. His early career was shaped at the bedside — counselling patients, reviewing medication regimes, and learning that the most powerful clinical decisions are rarely about the drug alone. They are about the person, the conversation, and the educator who shaped the clinician.
That conviction has carried him through senior lectureships and adjunct fellowships across the UK, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Australia and Malaysia. He has led pharmacotherapeutics modules, designed OSCEs, built virtual simulation pharmacies, co-founded the MyDispense Saudi Community, and mentored a generation of early-career academics through the American College of Clinical Pharmacy.
More recently, his research and speaking have turned to artificial intelligence in medical education — comparing AI-generated feedback with human tutoring, building practical frameworks for personalised learning, and helping faculties think clearly about where AI helps and where it shouldn't.
He currently teaches pharmacology at the College of Medicine, Sulaiman Al-Rajhi University (KSA), and is completing a PhD on personalised learning in higher education at the University of Malaysia.
Across every stage, his commitment is the same: to make medical and pharmacy education more human — never less — through the most thoughtful use of evidence, simulation and AI available to us.