Jack is a Lecturer in Pharmacy and Pharmacology. He completed both a Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours) and a Doctor of Philosophy at UniSA. Jack is a practicing Pharmacist and has worked in several pharmacies spanning across rural Victoria and urban and rural South Australia. He is credentialed to provide Home Medicine Reviews and Residential Medication Management Reviews and is also a vaccinating and prescribing pharmacist.
Jack has a strong interest in improving medication safety which is evident in his clinical practice, research and education of future health professionals. Maintaining clinical practice allows him to draw on real world experiences and incorporate this into his contemporary teaching and research endeavours.
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Jack is a Lecturer in Pharmacy and Pharmacology. He completed both a Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours) and a Doctor of Philosophy at UniSA. Jack is a practicing Pharmacist and has worked in several pharmacies spanning across rural Victoria and urban and rural South Australia. He is credentialed to provide Home Medicine Reviews and Residential Medication Management Reviews and is also a vaccinating and prescribing pharmacist.
Jack has a strong interest in improving medication safety which is evident in his clinical practice, research and education of future health professionals. Maintaining clinical practice allows him to draw on real world experiences and incorporate this into his contemporary teaching and research endeavours.
At UniSA Jack currently coordinates several courses including Fundamentals of Pharmacology, Pharmacy Practice Health Services Provision, Managing and Developing Pharmacy Operations, and Pharmacy Healthcare Services. He also teaches into other Pharmacy Practice courses across all year levels.
Jack is a member of the Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre (QUMPRC) at UniSA. Jack's research focuses on integrating methodologies to understand how adverse drug events happen at both a molecular-level and also at a population-level. To do this he uses molecular modelling strategies to predict how drugs may interact with a particular target and then uses big real-world data to investigate the risk of adverse events at the population-level. Jack also has a strong interest in researching medicine utilisation. In particular his research focuses on understanding sequential treatment patterns and understanding the complexities of medicine utilisation during shortages.
Jack's commitment to understanding and minimising adverse drug events extends beyond UniSA. He is a member of the Local Advisory Committee for Pharmaceutical Defence Limited, a not-for-profit organisation which support pharmacists with risk management advice.
Jack and his colleague Wern Chai (a/n Brian Chia) host a pharmacology educational instagram page where they post pharmacology related content. You can follow them by searching for "jbpharmacology".
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Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI)
Pharmaceutical Defence Limited (PDL)
Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA)
International Pharmacuetical Federation (FIP)
About me
Date | Title |
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06/03/2025 |
PDL Practice Alert - Administration of vaccines by pharmacists in South Australia, https://pdl.org.au/administration-of-vaccines-by-pharmacists-in-south-australia/ |
23/01/2025 |
Urgent warning is issued over life-threatening health crisis plaguing Australia - as some medications are running out, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14312905/warning-medication-shortage-Australia.html |
23/01/2025 |
Medicine shortages Australia [Live TV interview], https://iview.abc.net.au/show/abc-news-at-noon/series/0/video/NU2517H017S00 |
23/01/2025 |
Acute medicine shortages leaving pharmacies and patients in the lurch, https://unisa.edu.au/media-centre/Releases/2025/acute-medicine-shortages-leaving-pharmacies-and-patients-in-the-lurch/ |
22/01/2025 |
9News - Warning over medication shortage in Australia, https://www.9news.com.au/national/medicine-shortage-australia-pharmacists-warning/840ff1f1-bf54-4241-b555-a00b234dc71e |
22/01/2025 |
7 News Adelaide - Medicines Shortages, https://7plus.com.au/seven-news-adelaide?episode-id=7ANA25-016&autoplay=true&overlay=register |
13/11/2024 |
Transitions of care, https://ajp.com.au/pdl/transitions-of-care-2/ |
08/11/2024 |
‘It has become so stressful … I am considering changing professions’, https://ajp.com.au/news/it-has-become-so-stressful-i-am-considering-changing-professions/ |
28/02/2024 |
PDL on UTIs in SA, https://www.pharmacydaily.com.au/news/pdl-on-utis-in-sa/109739 |
27/02/2024 |
UTI service to start in SA, https://ajp.com.au/in-depth/pdl-practice-alert/uti-service-to-start-in-sa/ |
27/02/2024 |
SA Community Pharmacy UTI Services and lessons learned from interstate programs, https://pdl.org.au/practice-alert/ |
28/08/2023 |
THE IMPACT OF MEDICATION SHORTAGES, https://ajp.com.au/news/the-impact-of-medication-shortages/ |
11/03/2023 |
Why did Australians turn to community pharmacy for their Covid jabs (and what did they think about it)?, https://ajp.com.au/news/the-week-in-review-299/ |
08/03/2023 |
Is fluoroquinolone use really associated with the ... (Janetzki, SOS Challenge OHDSI Presentation), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOtNxBIA4_o |
07/03/2023 |
COVID JABS: WHY AUSSIES CHOSE PHARMACY, https://ajp.com.au/news/scope-of-practice/covid-jabs-why-aussies-chose-pharmacy/ |
About me
Doctor of Philosophy University of South Australia
Graduate Certificate in Pharmacy Practice (Internship) Monash University
Bachelor of Pharmacy with Honours University of South Australia
Certificate of Accreditation - Medication Reviews AACP Australian Association of Consultant Pharmac
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
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2025 |
Open access
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2025 |
Open access
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2025 |
Open access
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2025 |
Open access
1
1
12
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2024 |
Open access
1
4
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2024 |
Open access
1
2
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2024 |
Open access
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2024 |
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2024 |
Open access
1
4
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2024 |
Open access
32
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2023 |
Open access
2
2
1
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2023 |
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2023 |
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2023 |
Open access
3
2
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2021 |
Open access
7
6
10
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External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
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Curtin University | AUSTRALIA |
Flinders University | AUSTRALIA |
Griffith University | AUSTRALIA |
Healthy Care Services Pty Ltd | AUSTRALIA |
Pharmaceutical Society of Australia | AUSTRALIA |
Tanunda Lutheran Home Inc | AUSTRALIA |
University of Calgary | CANADA |
University of New South Wales | AUSTRALIA |
University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
Yonsei University College of Medicine | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF (SOUTH) |
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
Thesis title | Student status |
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110474 - Influencing the Influencers: Harnessing social media to improve quality use of medicines | Current |
Exploring the Genetic Association between Cardiometabolic Abnormalities in Clozapine in Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia | Current |