Dr Patel is currently running for election to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society English Pharmacy Board.
He is a pharmacist, and academic with published work in the BMJ; Principal Enterprise Fellow in Pharmacy in the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Huddersfield; Fellow of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence; Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sheffield; member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society National Pharmacy Board; and consultant pharmacist at the Drug Safety Research Unit at the University of Southampton, where he is coordinating a feasibility study, which involves pharmacists in specialist cohort event monitoring studies.