Hiba Bader, PharmD, MBA
Hiba Bader, PharmD, MBA, is a pharmacist with nearly six years of experience in clinical and patient-centered pharmacy care. Her passion for pharmacy was inspired by her early love of chemistry and guided by mentorship during her academic journey. Although she initially explored dentistry, she ultimately chose pharmacy as her career path. She earned both her Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) and Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Texas Tech University in 2021, where she built a strong foundation in both clinical pharmacy practice and healthcare business operations.
Hiba currently works in hospice pharmacy benefits management with Dragonfly RX, where she specializes in hospice admissions and medication management. In this role, she collaborates with clinical teams to review patient diagnoses, comorbidities, and medication regimens when patients are admitted to hospice care. She performs real-time medication therapy management to evaluate medication necessity, reduce pill burden, and optimize formulations for patients with swallowing difficulties by identifying medications that can be crushed, converted to liquid forms, or safely discontinued when appropriate. Her clinical focus is centered on improving patient comfort and supporting quality of life for patients and families during end-of-life care.
In addition to her hospice pharmacy work, Hiba also maintains a PRN retail pharmacy role with CVS, allowing her to continue expanding her patient care experience across multiple healthcare settings. She is passionate about patient education and helping families better understand hospice care, particularly correcting misconceptions that hospice requires stopping all medications. Instead, she focuses on maintaining therapies that support comfort, including medications for pain, anxiety, depression, constipation, insulin management, and cardiac symptom control. Hiba is committed to delivering compassionate, clinically informed care that supports patients during vulnerable and transitional stages of life.
• Texas Tech University - PharmD
• Texas Tech University - MBA
Areas of Specialization/Expertise
- Hospice Pharmacy Care
- Hospice Admissions Medication Review
- Medication Therapy Management (MTM)
- Retail Pharmacy
What do you enjoy most about practicing medicine?
What I love most about my work in hospice pharmacy is making patients more comfortable during their final days. Our aim is always to optimize their comfort. A lot of patients and families believe that once you get admitted into hospice, we're gonna stop everything because you're dying anyway and there's no point, which is not the case at all. We stop things like long-term medications such as statins that won't benefit them in their immediate timeline, but things like insulin, heart medication, or discomfort meds in general, meds for depression, anxiety, pain, and constipation, we obviously keep to maintain their comfort level. It's about helping patients and families understand that hospice isn't about giving up, it's about focusing on what truly matters for their quality of life in the time they have left. The fact that 75% of hospice patients finally enter hospice within 24 hours of their death shows how much people struggle to accept death, and being able to provide that comfort care, even in those final moments, is incredibly meaningful.