Darush Attar-Zadeh is a practising pharmacist in the UK, specialising in helping people change harmful behaviours. He is a Primary Care Respiratory Society (PCRS) Executive Chair (Sep 2025), Co-Chair BLF Task Force Medicines Optimisation Committee and part of the IPCRG teaching faculty for treating Tobacco Dependence and Asthma Right Care. He is a clinical fellow respiratory lead pharmacist in NW London. Darush has specialised in the field of smoking cessation for twenty-five years and currently works for the GP federation in Barnet where he supports and treats people with Tobacco Dependence. He was asked to help review the UK National Training Standards for smoking cessation and was a member of the London Clinical Senate Helping Smokers Quit programme.  Darush has published more than 45 clinical papers and writes teaching modules on various medical platforms. He has been recognised by his healthcare peers at the 2019 PCPA GP Pharmacist awards for excellence and was awarded a PCRS best practice award in 2018 for work he and his community pharmacy colleagues carried out for people living with COPD.