When Mena Alsaffar, daughter of pharmacists Adam and Eman Alsaffar, was deciding her career, choosing to follow in her parents footsteps and also become a pharmacist herself was a no brainer. Mena graduated with a BPHARM from Otago University in 2015 and has now been a community pharmacist for 5 years. Becoming a pharmacy owner was not her original plan, however, she now owns and operates two community pharmacies located inside medical centres alongside her husband, Jaffer Al-Jumaily, who is also a pharmacist, and she wouldn’t have it any other way.

Mena has 2 children (Yasmeen 4 years old and Kareem 1 years old). She is also on her way to completing the Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Pharmacy through Auckland University to complement her knowledge and practice while she works in an interprofessional community pharmacy setting.