I am an Enterprise Fellow in Pharmacy, working in UniSA Clinical and Health Sciences. My research focusses on identifying and resolving quality use of medicines issues in older people. From 2016-2021 I held an NHMRC-ARC Dementia Research Development fellowship, which investigated the role of medicines in causing or worsening cognitive impairment. My research interests include quality use of medicines, medication safety, dementia and pharmacoepidemiology. I am also interested in studying how pharmacists can improve the quality use of medicines and reduce medication related harm for patients.
I have supervised PhD students undertaking research investigating the role of pharmacists in the detection, prevention and treatment of delirium ... Read more
 
            About me
I am an Enterprise Fellow in Pharmacy, working in UniSA Clinical and Health Sciences. My research focusses on identifying and resolving quality use of medicines issues in older people. From 2016-2021 I held an NHMRC-ARC Dementia Research Development fellowship, which investigated the role of medicines in causing or worsening cognitive impairment. My research interests include quality use of medicines, medication safety, dementia and pharmacoepidemiology. I am also interested in studying how pharmacists can improve the quality use of medicines and reduce medication related harm for patients.
I have supervised PhD students undertaking research investigating the role of pharmacists in the detection, prevention and treatment of delirium in elderly hospital patients; multimorbidity, polypharmacy and the identification of patients at high risk of adverse medicine events; and the prevalence and types of medication related problems experienced by people with dementia. I currently supervise PhD students investigating the role of hospital pharmacists in reducing medication related harm through participation in ward rounds, and the extent and preventability of medication related hospital admissions in people with mental health conditions.
About me
Doctor of Philosophy University of South Australia
Bachelor of Pharmacy (Hons) University of South Australia
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Large scale evidence generation for the utilisation and safety of biologic medicines, NHMRC - Project Grant, 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2023
Citizen Science, Health and Wellbeing Project, Office for Ageing Well, 01/02/2020 - 18/03/2022
Veterans' Medicines Advice and Therapeutics Education Services (Veterans' MATES) Program, Cwth Dept of Veterans' Affairs, 01/09/2015 - 31/12/2021
Consumer and clinician led priority setting for the NNIDR MEDicines and DEMentia (MEDDEM) National Research Action Plan, Australian Association of Gerontology Research Trust, 01/01/2020 - 21/12/2021
Medicine-associated dementia and cognitive impairment: identifying the problem, reducing the harm, NHMRC - ARC Dementia Research Development Fellowship, 01/08/2016 - 30/06/2021
CVC Mental Health Pilot, Cwth Dept of Veterans' Affairs, 03/01/2018 - 31/12/2020
ReMinDAR Trial: Reducing medicine induced deterioration and adverse reactions trial, Department of Health, 15/09/2017 - 30/06/2020
Use of antipsychotic medicines for people aged 65 years and over: A review undertaken for the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Northern Sydney Area Health Service, 15/04/2019 - 29/11/2019
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, ResearcherID or Scopus
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| 2023 | 
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| 2021 | 
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| 2020 | 
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| 2019 | 
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| 2019 | 
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| 2018 | 
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| 2013 | 
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| 2013 | 
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| 2012 | 
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| 2010 | 
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External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country | 
|---|---|
| ANU College of Health & Medicine | AUSTRALIA | 
| Aston University | UNITED KINGDOM | 
| Austin Health | AUSTRALIA | 
| Australian National University | AUSTRALIA | 
| Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (SA Branch) | AUSTRALIA | 
| Bond University | AUSTRALIA | 
| Bupa Health Foundation (formerly MBF Foundation) | AUSTRALIA | 
| Cara Inc. Woodville | AUSTRALIA | 
| Central Adelaide Local Health Network Incorporated | AUSTRALIA | 
| Cyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences | MALAYSIA | 
| Dementia Australia | AUSTRALIA | 
| Department of Veterans Affairs | AUSTRALIA | 
| Flinders Medical Centre | AUSTRALIA | 
| Flinders University | AUSTRALIA | 
| Griffith University | AUSTRALIA | 
| Hanyang University | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF (SOUTH) | 
| Healthy Care Services Pty Ltd | AUSTRALIA | 
| Helping Hand Aged Care | AUSTRALIA | 
| Helping Hand Organisation | AUSTRALIA | 
| Home Support Services | AUSTRALIA | 
| Karolinska Institute | SWEDEN | 
| Metro South Health | AUSTRALIA | 
| Monash University | AUSTRALIA | 
| National Geriatric Hospital of Vietnam | VIET NAM | 
| National Health Insurance Service | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF (SOUTH) | 
| Northern Adelaide Local Health Network | AUSTRALIA | 
| NPS MedicineWise | AUSTRALIA | 
| Parliament House, Canberra | AUSTRALIA | 
| Pharmacy Improvement Centre Ltd | AUSTRALIA | 
| Private Individual | UNITED KINGDOM | 
| Queensland Health | AUSTRALIA | 
| Royal Adelaide Hospital | AUSTRALIA | 
| SA Health | AUSTRALIA | 
| SA Pharmacy, SA Health | AUSTRALIA | 
| Sensus Cognition | AUSTRALIA | 
| Southern Cross Care (SA) | AUSTRALIA | 
| Sung Kyun Kwan University | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF (SOUTH) | 
| Therapeutic Goods Administration | AUSTRALIA | 
| University College London | UNITED KINGDOM | 
| University of Adelaide | AUSTRALIA | 
| University of Auckland | NEW ZEALAND | 
| University of California, Los Angeles | UNITED STATES | 
| University of East Anglia | UNITED KINGDOM | 
| University of Hong Kong | HONG KONG | 
| University of London | FRANCE | 
| University of Melbourne | AUSTRALIA | 
| University of New South Wales | AUSTRALIA | 
| University of Otago | NEW ZEALAND | 
| University of Oxford | UNITED KINGDOM | 
| University of Queensland | AUSTRALIA | 
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA | 
| University of Southampton | UNITED KINGDOM | 
| University of Sydney | AUSTRALIA | 
| University of Tasmania | AUSTRALIA | 
| University of Technology Sydney | AUSTRALIA | 
| University of Waterloo | CANADA | 
| University of Western Australia | AUSTRALIA | 
| Victoria University | AUSTRALIA | 
| Yonsei University | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF (SOUTH) | 
| Yonsei University College of Medicine | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF (SOUTH) | 
External engagement & recognition
| Engagement/recognition | Year | 
|---|---|
| Conference organising committee member for 2020 NHMRC NNIDR Australian Dementia ForumNHMRC National Institute for Dementia Research | 2019 | 
| ECR/MCR Accelerator group memberNHMRC National Institute for Dementia Research | 2019 | 
| Invited presentation in the PSA APSA Research: Enabling Research in Practice stream of the conferencePharmaceutical Society of Australia | 2019 | 
| Best reviewerPharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety (International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology) | 2018 | 
| Best Veterans Health PaperJournal of Military and Veterans Health Awards | 2018 | 
| Conference co-chair for the 2018 APSA annual conferenceAustralasian Pharmaceutical Science Association (APSA) | 2018 | 
| Executive committee memberAustralasian Pharmaceutical Science Association (APSA) | 2018 | 
| Delivery of 'Advanced Drug Utilisation' pre-conference workshopsInternational Society for Pharmacoepidemiology and Therapeutic Risk Management Conference | 2017 | 
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
| Thesis title | Student status | 
|---|---|
| 109950 - Evaluation and optimisation of a state-wide electronic chemotherapy prescribing system | Current | 
| Adverse drug reaction reporting by consumers in Australia | Current | 
| Avoiding the harm: safe medication care pathways in hospitals | Current | 
| Development, implementation and evaluation of a work-place training program to support pharmacists working onsite in Residential Aged Care Facilities | Current | 
| Evaluating a Collaborative Approach for Reducing harm and optimising Medication outcomes through partnered prescribing: The CARe-MED study | Current | 
| Optimising disease modifying anti-rheumatic drug use in rheumatoid arthritis | Current | 
| Pharmacogenomics to achieve precision dosing of fluoropyrimidines (FP) in cancer patients | Current | 
| An investigation of methods for developing clinical prediction models for time-to-event outcomes following joint replacement | Completed | 
| Emerging role of pharmacists in preadmission clinics in prevention of postoperative delirium | Completed | 
| Enhancing Australia's pharmaco-surveillance capacity: a validation of sequence symmetry analysis method | Completed | 
| Macro, meso and micro layers affecting clinical pharmacists' involvement in interprofessional ward rounds in inpatient hospital settings | Completed | 
| Medication related problems in people with dementia | Completed | 
| Multimorbidity, polypharmacy and the identification of patients at high risk of adverse medicine events | Completed | 
| Targeting medicines in the prevention of delirium in older patients: a principal role for pharmacists | Completed |