Martina Khundakar MPharm, PG Dip Clinical & Health Services Pharmacy, IP (cert), PG Cert Medical Education is the Lead Pharmacist for Research and Workforce Development in a mental health trust, with 19 years of experience in mental health pharmacy. She is a passionate advocate for the education of pharmacy professionals and oversees the coordination and delivery of educational programs for university placements, trainee pharmacists, rotational placements in mental health with acute trusts across the North-East and North Cumbria.

Martina plays a central role in promoting staff development pathways and innovative roles within her department. She has led various workforce initiatives, steering pharmacy workforce development and education to foster collaboration and integration of staff to work more closely together across the system for the benefit of those with a serious mental illness (SMI). This systemwide approach aims to reduce parity of esteem, promoting safer care and improved medicines optimisation for people with SMI.

As a qualified independent prescriber, Martina remains actively engaged in clinical practice by working on a rehabilitation ward. She also actively supports the trust's medical education team, with responsibility for integrating pharmacists into the medical education team. In 2015, she completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education and currently serves as an associate lecturer at Newcastle University.