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Sydney hub short oral presenting author biographies 

100. A national survey to determine the process of conducting medication reviews by Australian consultant pharmacists

Dr Lisa Kouladjian O'Donnell is a Research Fellow in Geriatric Pharmacotherapy, Kolling Institute, Royal North Shore Hospital and Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney. She is also a Clinical Pharmacist Educator within the School of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney. Lisa's research focuses on optimising the quality use of medicines for older adults. Her research merges the fields of digital health and deprescribing to develop and implement evidence-based tools into clinical practice. 

101. A survey on knowledge, attitude and practice of household medicine storage and disposal in three cities of Indonesia

Antonius Nugraha Widhi Pratama is a new PhD student at Sydney Pharmacy School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Australia. Back in his home country, Indonesia, he is a pharmacy lecturer at Department of Clinical and Community Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitas Jember. His research interest includes Social Pharmacy, Public Health Pharmacy and Pharmacoepidemiology. His presented work was part of the Wise Storage and Disposal of Medicines (Bijak Simpan Buang Obat, BIMBO) program, funded by The Australian Government through the 2021 Alumni Grant Scheme that is administered by Australia Awards in Indonesia.

102. An exploration of resilience with early career pharmacists: a qualitative study

Syafiqah Nadiah Halim is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland under the supervision of Karen Luetsch, Karen Whitfield, and Debra Rowett. Her research project is focusing on resilience and ways to enhance resilience among pharmacy students and pharmacists.

103. Use of thromboprophylaxis guidelines and risk stratification tools in atrial fibrillation: A survey of general practitioners in Australia

Eyob Alemayehu Gebreyohannes is a 3rd-year PhD candidate and casual academic staff at the University of Western Australia. He is also a research assistant at Telethon Kids Institute in Perth, Australia. Prior to commencing his PhD, Eyob worked as a researcher and a lecturer of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of Gondar, Ethiopia. Eyob has extensive experience in research and teaching.

104. Clinical yarning with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples: – A systematic review of its use and impacts

Alexander Burke is a Wiradjuri Male and Current PhD student looking into curriculum development around cultural safety/competence in pharmacy. 

105. Community pharmacists administering a blood product: A case study of routine Prophylactic Anti-D in pregnancy in South Auckland, New Zealand

Dr Natalie Gauld is experienced with widening access to medicines through community pharmacy. This has included many innovations and their evaluations including vaccinations, trimethoprim for urinary tract infections, and hepatitis C testing and treatment. She led the first-in-world reclassification of sildenafil in New Zealand. Her research has included comparing different developed countries in reclassification of medicines from prescription to non-prescription, opening access through the pharmacist. 

106. Towards assessment of pharmacy preceptors: a qualitative study of preceptor and preceptee perspectives

Andrew Bartlett is a practicing pharmacist, academic and Phd candidate. Andrew's area of research is preceptorship and training and assessment of preceptor competency.

107. Conscientious objection (CO) and refusing supply – Australian pharmacists’ perspectives 

Dr Sami Isaac is a registered Medical Practitioner and Pharmacist with a Doctorate of Medicine and a Bachelor of Pharmacy Honours Class 1. I am also a PhD Candidate at the University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine and Health School of Pharmacy researching the ethical issues of conscientious objection in pharmacy with focus on voluntary assisted dying laws, abortion, contraception and other ethical dilemmas face in pharmacy practice. 

108. Developing and testing a novel method to explore implicit bias in community pharmacy

Jack Collins is a practising community pharmacist and Postdoctoral Research Associate in Sydney, Australia. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a PhD in pharmacy practice in 2020 and received a Bachelor of Pharmacy with First Class Honours and the University Medal in 2015. Jack was the 2018 winner of the International Pharmaceutical Federation Young Pharmacist award for professional innovation for his work on implicit bias in pharmacists. 

109. Compliance of community pharmacists with COVID-19 health protocols

Fathul Muin is a last year postgraduate student at Magister of Pharmaceutical Management program, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. He is also working as a licensed community pharmacists in Yogyakarta and successfully finished his thesis research regarding community pharmacists compliance to COVID-19 health protocols and factors affecting their compliance. In addition, he is currently working as a part-time internal reviewer at the Journal of Management and Pharmacy Practice which managed by Faculty of Pharmacy Universitas Gadjah Mada. His research interests include medication adherance or behavior; medication use policy; disease management; and other topics related to social, administrative, and pharmacy practice.

110. Connecting the dots of care: Linking Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with diabetes care in hospital using hospital pharmacists

Susan Welch is Senior Pharmacist (Research) at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney and has worked as an Emergency Medicine and ICU pharmacist for many years. Awards include: St. Vincent’s Clinic Foundation Excellence Award for Clinical Researcher and Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA) - Australian Clinical Pharmacy Award (2009). She has been a Fellow of SHPA since 2017. She is currently enrolled in a PhD (pharmacy) at the University of Sydney investigating Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander health and hospital pharmacy.

111. Evaluating informal caregivers’ needs in managing medicines for people receiving cancer treatment in Australia

Dr Ramesh Walpola is a pharmacist, certified health manager  and Senior Lecturer in Health Management at the School of Population Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney . His main area of research expertise and interest is in patient and medication safety, particularly examining the social determinants of safe practices. Ramesh completed his PhD at The University of Sydney in 2016, which focused on the development of educational interventions to enhance generational change in patient safety practices in the pharmacy setting. He was awarded the FIP Young Pharmacist Award for Professional Innovation in 2012 in recognition of the novelty of this work. Ramesh’s current research spans a number of areas including patient and medication safety in primary, secondary and aged care settings, safety culture, health professional education, patient and clinician experience. Ramesh is currently leading projects related to improving cancer caregivers' capabilities to manage their loved ones' health needs.

112. Development of a performance-based pharmacy payment framework for Australia

John Jackson is a pharmacist with broad professional experience and expertise in pharmacy policy and governance. He is currently President, Western Pacific Pharmaceutical Forum, Chair, Social and Administrative Pharmacy Section of the Federation of Asian Pharmaceutical Associations, and President of the Victorian Branch of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia.  John is engaged in practice-based research at the Monash University Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and is proprietor of a not-for-profit community pharmacy in Collingwood, Victoria. He has previously operated hospital pharmacy services in both the public and private sectors and undertaken consultancies to review and enhance pharmacy services in hospital, community and residential aged care. John has had a long-standing involvement with advocacy and education with a focus on social and administrative aspects of pharmacists’ practice. 

113. Effect of promotion and Covid lockdowns on uptake of funded maternal Pertussis vaccination in pharmacies

Dr Natalie Gauld is a pharmacist long involved in developing, implementing and evaluating widened access to medicines through community pharmacy. Her vaccination work includes reclassifying multiple vaccinations to enable pharmacist-administration without prescription, leading a team on an interventional research project of funding maternal vaccinations through pharmacy, drafting a vaccine strategy for pharmacy in New Zealand, and working with pharmacists on the MMR (measles-mumps and rubella vaccine) catch-up campaign. She is internationally recognised for her leadership in reclassification (switch) of medicines from prescription to non-prescription. She achieved the first-in-world reclassifications of sildenafil and topical calcipotriol, reclassified selected oral contraceptives and adapalene. Most recently she has worked with a multidisciplinary team to develop and implement a model for provision of a blood product (anti-D) through pharmacy, aimed at increasing access for women, support best-practice. 

114. Identification of key medicine safety interventions for Australian pharmacists

John Jackson is a pharmacist with broad professional experience and expertise in pharmacy policy and governance. He is currently President, Western Pacific Pharmaceutical Forum, Chair, Social and Administrative Pharmacy Section of the Federation of Asian Pharmaceutical Associations, and President of the Victorian Branch of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia.  John is engaged in practice-based research at the Monash University Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and is proprietor of a not-for-profit community pharmacy in Collingwood, Victoria. He has previously operated hospital pharmacy services in both the public and private sectors and undertaken consultancies to review and enhance pharmacy services in hospital, community and residential aged care. John has had a long-standing involvement with advocacy and education with a focus on social and administrative aspects of pharmacists’ practice. 

116. Evaluation of impact of educational intervention on knowledge, attitude and practices of ambulatory patients regarding antibiotic use

Dr Shobha Rani is the Director of the Pharm.D program at Al Ameen College of Pharmacy, Bangalore. She is the Professor and Head of the Dept. of Pharmacy Practice. She has 36 yrs of teaching and research experience.
Dr Shobha was the past Dean in Pharmacy faculty at Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka. She was also the Chair person of the Board of Studies of post graduate program in Pharmacy at Rajiv Gandhi University. Dr Shobha has also been the Academic Council member of the university.
She has more than 100 research publications and more than 150 presentations at National and International journals as well as National/international conferences respectively. Dr Shobha has authored/edited 5 books in Pharmacy. Dr Shobha has widely travelled and visited about 15 countries to attend WHO workshops/conferences , to give talks and present her research work. She is the advisor for the Indian Journal of Pharmacy Practice. Her areas of interest are Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacoeconomics and Pharmacovigilance.

117. Development of a reflective practice toolkit designed to support student learning and capacity to work respectfully with Aboriginal communities

Dr Cherie Lucas is a Senior Lecturer and Clinical education Manager (Placements) at the University of Technology Sydney and is the recipient of the 2019 Australian Award for University Teaching Citation for the Individual Category: Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning. She works collaboratively with Indigenous Health and across disciplines. This current research relates to the development of a Toolkit to enhance student learning and cultural safety. 

118. Pharmacist and pharmacy staff knowledge, attitude and practice of wound care in the community setting: A cross-sectional survey

Daisy H K Cheung is a Master of Philosophy candidate at the University of Sydney, School of Pharmacy. She is currently practising as a community pharmacist manager and an educator at the University of Sydney. Her research in pharmacy practice focuses on wound care in the primary care setting.  

119. Perinatal women’s acceptability of community pharmacist-led perinatal depression screening: a qualitative study 

Lily Pham is an early career pharmacist and Master of Philosophy (Pharmacy) student at the University of Sydney. Her research explores perinatal depression screening in community pharmacy. 

120. Implementation of pharmacist-led opioid stewardship in a general practice: an effectiveness-implementation study

Margaret Jordan is a PhD candidate at The University of Sydney and a general practice pharmacist. Her previous roles have included introducing systems approaches to improving patient and medication safety, especially across transitions of care, in acute and primary care settings; and practitioner and undergraduate medical, pharmacy and nursing education.

121. Influencing the pharmacy profession by building the capacity of pharmacist education providers

Glenys Wilkinson is currently the Executive Director Professional Services for the Australian Pharmacy Council.  Glenys holds undergraduate and Masters level qualifications in social work, organisational development and executive coaching and has held executive management positions in the not for profit and community sectors. She is a Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Service Management, Australian Institute of Managers and Leaders and recently completed an executive management program for regulatory leaders with the Council on Licensure, Enforcement and Regulation (CLEAR), United States. Prior to her current position Glenys was Chief Executive Officer of the Australia Association of Social Workers and in this role was able to fulfil her passion for social justice to address the structural disadvantages that exclude people from fully participating in our community, and living their lives with dignity.

123. Psychometric (Rasch) testing of a professional identity scale for pharmacy students

Associate Professor Joy Spark is a registered pharmacist and Pharmacy Program Lead at the University of New England in Australia. Her research interests include facilitation of student learning, equitable assessment, work/life balance and user perceptions of services, whether they be in health or education. Working with Rasch analysis has enabled Joy to gain a greater appreciation of the complexities of scale development and validation.

124. Prevalence and predictors of opioid use before orthopaedic surgery in an Australian setting: a multicentre, cross-sectional, observational study 

Shania Liu is a PhD Candidate from the University of Sydney School of Pharmacy working on interventions to improve the safe use of opioids among patients receiving hip and knee arthroplasty.  

125. Student-led medication histories in hospital: Analysis of student and preceptor feedback

Linda Do is an academic tutor undertaking a Masters of Philosophy at the School of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney. She is also a practising pharmacist at the Canterbury and Liverpool Hospitals, and holds the position of Secretary on the Society of Hospital Pharmacist Australia NSW Branch Committee. Her passion for professional training and development of pharmacy students have led to her research to focus on student-led entrustable professional activities, pertaining to her clinical practice experience.

126. Pharmacists’ acceptability of perinatal depression screening in community pharmacies: A content analysis

Clara Strowel is a recent graduate of the Master of Global Health and started her MPhil at the University of Sydney in 2021. She is conducting research around perinatal mental health. Currently, she is exploring pharmacists' perspectives on community pharmacist-led perinatal depression screening.

127. Simulation-based education in the therapy of serious infections

Dr Petra Czarniak is a Senior Lecturer in the Medical School Curtin University. She is a registered and accredited pharmacist with many years’ experience in community pharmacy, as well as teaching various disciplines at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Petra has demonstrated expertise and leadership in curriculum design and course development, having developed and implemented a Master of Pharmacy course at Curtin University. Her research interests include antimicrobial stewardship, antimicrobial resistance and quality use of medicines. Petra’s research informs her teaching and she uses innovative ways to facilitate the learning experience and create a solid foundation in learning. Her passion for teaching is reflected in her desire to produce the best learning experience for students by engaging them in meaningful ways to inspire and empower them. In recognition of Petra’s excellent teaching, she has been awarded two University teaching awards and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

128. Simulated schizophrenia role-plays for pharmacy students: Co-design and content validation by mental health stakeholders

Tina Ung, BPharm (Hons I), is a Community Pharmacist, Associate Lecturer (Clinical Educator) and PhD Candidate at The University of Sydney Pharmacy School. Tina is the grateful recipient of the Elizabeth Wunsch Postgraduate Research Scholarship in Mental Health and Pharmacy Services and was recently awarded the prize for Best Oral Presentation in Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science Education at the 2021 APSA Annual Conference. Tina is supervised by Dr Claire O’Reilly, Dr Sarira El-Den and A/Prof Rebekah Moles, and her thesis explores how we can partner with mental health stakeholders to develop and deliver pharmacy education in mental health via simulated patients. Tina looks forward to presenting her research at ISPW 2022.

129. Simulated mental health first aid assessments involving role-plays with mental health consumers: Evaluating pharmacists’ performance and experiences

Ricki Ng is a registered pharmacist and Mental Health First Aid instructor. She is currently a PhD candidate at The University of Sydney Pharmacy School. She is interested in exploring how pharmacists could support people living with mental illness. Her current research focuses on the development, implementation and evaluation of a pharmacist training program for people living with severe and persistent mental illness.

130. A community pharmacy implementation logic model for opioid optimisation service development and implementation in Pakistan

Ayesha Iqbal has experience in performing interdisciplinary research, involved in health policy research and pushing boundaries of different pharmacy domains to work for the betterment of health. Her core competencies include social and administrative research, clinical pharmacy and disease management, pharmaceutical policy, realist evaluation, implementation science, health services research and intervention design and evaluation. 
Currently she holds a PhD postgraduate student position in University of Nottingham. She was awarded Vice Chancellor scholarship for Research Excellence by University of Nottingham and Schlumberger faculty of Future fellowship to support her PhD. She also has been awarded Research Productivity Award in 2015 for outstanding contributions to pharmacy practice field in Pakistan. Miss Iqbal recently received Rising Star Award, 2022 in the University of Nottingham AHPGR conference for her extensive research contributions.
She is actively involved in mentoring and transferring research skills to young minds and is a member of journal club of Division of Pharmacy Practice and policy. She is also a research collaboration coordinator between Division of Pharmacy Practice and policy and health policy and insurance group at Harvard University.  
She also provides volunteer work and supports as a senior research officer at commonwealth pharmacist association (CPA) and is currently working on establishing an MOU with FIP and WHO for workforce developmental goals. Her interests also align with the development of new pharmacy services for achieving SDG and UHC goals for the betterment of public health in LMICS. She also is involved in CPA’s project for CPD development and professional recognition. She is also a core research team member and is actively involved in grant submission and collaboration between academic institutes, ministries and CPA. 
Alongside her pharmacy professional interests, she also holds a special interest in becoming a female role model and leader for female professional development and recognition and advocating the right of females to education and primary health in developing countries. 

131. Survey of Australian hospital pharmacy departments – how are we caring for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander inpatients

Susan Welch is Senior Pharmacist (Research) at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney and has worked as an Emergency Medicine and ICU pharmacist for many years. Awards include: St. Vincent’s Clinic Foundation Excellence Award for Clinical Researcher and Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA) - Australian Clinical Pharmacy Award (2009). She has been a Fellow of SHPA since 2017. She is currently enrolled in a PhD (pharmacy) at the University of Sydney investigating Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander health and hospital pharmacy.

132. Student-led medication histories in hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic: Analysis of student and preceptor feedback

Linda Do is an academic tutor undertaking a Masters of Philosophy at the School of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney. She is also a practising pharmacist at the Canterbury and Liverpool Hospitals, and holds the position of Secretary on the Society of Hospital Pharmacist Australia NSW Branch Committee. Her passion for professional training and development of pharmacy students have led to her research to focus on student-led entrustable professional activities, pertaining to her clinical practice experience.

133. Reasons for non-adherence to atrial fibrillation thromboprophylaxis prescribing guidelines in Western Australia: A qualitative descriptive study of general practitioners’ views

Alemayehu Gebreyohannes is a 3rd-year PhD candidate and casual academic staff at the University of Western Australia. He is also a research assistant at Telethon Kids Institute in Perth, Australia. Prior to commencing his PhD, Eyob worked as a researcher and a lecturer of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of Gondar, Ethiopia. Eyob has extensive experience in research and teaching. 

134. Status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s cultural safety/competence education in Australian pharmacy schools

Alexander Burke is a Wiradjuri male and Current PhD student looking into curriculum development around Cultural safety/competence in pharmacy. 

135. Top 10 unanswered questions about quality use of medicines in people living with dementia

Dr Edwin Tan is a Senior Lecturer, The University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Pharmacy. His research interests are in pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacy practice, quality use of medicines and cognitive health and ageing.

136. The implementation of an osteoporosis medication management intervention in community pharmacy: A pilot study 

Jonathan Phuong is a registered pharmacist and PhD candidate exploring consumer awareness of osteoporosis in Australia. 

137. The impact of COVID-19 on clinical research at Australian and New Zealand universities: a qualitative study 

Renu Bhutkar is currently working as the intern pharmacist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and also the intern researcher at a pharmaceutical company. Working through the pandemic, Renu completed her Bachelor of Pharmacy (Hons I) in 2021, conducting her research project on how COVID-19 has impacted clinical research. Renu has also presented to the Australasian Pharmaceutical Science Association and has been involved in the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia competitions and volunteering events.

138. The effectiveness of computerised clinical decision support systems on deprescribing inappropriate medications in older people: A systematic review protocol

Dr Lisa Kouladjian O'Donnell is a Research Fellow in Geriatric Pharmacotherapy, Kolling Institute, Royal North Shore Hospital and Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney. She is also a Clinical Pharmacist Educator within the School of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney. Lisa's research focuses on optimising the quality use of medicines for older adults. Her research merges the fields of digital health and deprescribing to develop and implement evidence-based tools into clinical practice.

139. The Carer Assessment of medicaTion management guidanCe for people with dementia at Hospital discharge (CATCH) tool: A national cross-sectional survey

Dr. Mouna Sawan (PhD, Hon, BPharm, AACP) is an experienced pharmacist and Research Fellow at the School of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney.  Her research interests primarily relate to the quality use of medicines for older adults living with dementia and their carers across health care settings. She was awarded her PhD from the University of Sydney in 2017 for research on how organisational culture shapes psychotropic prescribing in Residential Aged Care Facilities. Her research to date has focused on educating and empowering people living with dementia and their carers in medication management at transitions of care. Her systematic review on deprescribing was voted as the top 10 critical deprescribing articles in 2021. Mouna’s research expertise has been recognised as she was awarded the Dementia Australia Research Foundation Project Grant in 2022, the Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration (DCRC) fellowship in 2021, and the Research Social Administrative Pharmacy Best Paper in 2020. 

140. Utilization of traditional healers and health-seeking behavior on low socio-economic status community in Gunungkidul, Indonesia

Ahmad Naufal is a pharmacist professional student at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. He graduated with his bachelor's program in the Faculty of Pharmacy in the same university. He is also a second-year sociology student at Indonesia Open University. His undergraduate thesis is finished in 2022 under Anna W. Widayanti Ph.D. and Dr. Andayana P. Gani supervisor. He got three research grants from the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Indonesia during his undergraduate program.

141. Community pharmacists’ acceptability of screening for depression among older adults: A qualitative study

Duha Gide has worked as a registered pharmacist for four years. She is currently undertaking an MPhil at The University of Sydney and her research focuses on pharmacist-led depression screening in older adults. 

142. Using cluster analysis to describe burnout characteristics of pharmacists during COVID-19

Karlee Johnston is a pharmacology lecturer and advanced practice critical care pharmacist currently undertaking a PhD investigating pharmacists burnout during COVID-19. 

143. Bridging the gap between physical and mental illness in community pharmacy (PharMIbridge): Implementation of a cluster-RCT during the COVID-19 pandemic 

Dr Claire O’Reilly is a Senior Lecturer at The University of Sydney Pharmacy School. Claire is a pharmacist and health services researcher with expertise in mental health, as well as a practising community pharmacist and experienced mental health trainer (Master MHFA Instructor). Claire’s research focusses on the area of mental health that investigates consumers’ experiences of stigma and discrimination in schizophrenia; pharmacists’ professional pharmacy services; role for pharmacists in screening people for depression, evaluation of mental health training and education programs and new roles for pharmacists in mental health as part of a multidisciplinary team. 
Claire was previously National Vice President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia and is the first pharmacist to be appointed to the Medical Services Advisory Committee, which provides advice to the federal Government on the strength of evidence for the safety, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of medical technologies.

144. Australian pharmacist’s anti-doping knowledge and skills in assisting athletes avoid unintentional ingestion of prohibited substances

Deborah Greenbaum graduated from the University of Sydney (2021) BPharm Hons 1 and is currently working at the Australian Department of Health in a policy role. Deborah is also an elite gymnast representing Australia for the past 10 years. Deborah brings detailed knowledge of anti-doping from both a professional and sporting background. She is currently researching the developing area of sport pharmacy, specifically how pharmacists can assist athletes through the provision of advice and in the avoidance of unintentional doping. 

Chicago hub short oral presenting author biographies 

200. Māori and medicines adherence – Indigenous voices and the pharmacists’ role in achieving medicines access equity in Aotearoa New Zealand

Dr Joanna Hikaka (Ngāruahine) is a pharmacist and health researcher, usually residing in Auckland New Zealand, but currently at Brown University, Rhode Island, as a Fulbright Visiting Researcher. She has clinical and research experience in older adult health, Māori health and health service development and has worked across primary, secondary and aged residential care settings. Her current research focusses on pro-equity health intervention development.

201. Identifying vaccination deserts: The availability and distribution of pharmacists with authorization to administer injections in Ontario Canada

Dr. Nancy Waite is Professor, Associate Director Clinical Education and University of Waterloo Director of the Academic Leadership Program. She has worked in Canada and the US as a faculty member and practicing pharmacist. She is co-founder of OPEN, the Ontario Pharmacy Evidence Network, a program of research that examines current and emerging medication management services, processes and policies. Her research explores the impact of pharmacist scope of practice changes on health outcomes, with a focus on pharmacists-as-immunizers.

202. Community pharmacy provision in England during COVID-19: learning for future pandemic preparedness

Hattie Warr graduated with a First Class BSc (Hons) degree from the University of Exeter in 2020, and is now a second year undergraduate student studying MBChB Medicine at Anglia Ruskin University. Alongside her studies, Hattie has developed a keen interest in research, which she hopes to continue throughout her career as a doctor. With hopes of becoming a general practitioner, undertaking this research was of particular interest as it provided insight into the relationship between general practice and community pharmacy.

203. African-born persons living with HIV in Minnesota at the intersection of culture and US healthcare system

Dr Alina Cernasev is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Translational Science at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, College of Pharmacy. She received her PharmD (2015) and PhD in Social and Administrative Pharmacy (2019) from the University of Minnesota, College of Pharmacy. She obtained a Masters Degree in Drug Delivery (2004) from University of London, UK and Bachelor of Pharmacy (2002) from Romania.
Dr. Cernasev’s research is grounded in health behavior theories, social-cognitive, and behavioral psychology to understand the consumers’ experiences further when interacting with the healthcare system. Her goal as a researcher is to improve the U.S. healthcare system to provide accessibility for diverse populations. In this role, she has published over 20 peer-reviewed manuscripts and presented her research at both national and international conferences. 

204. Predicting confidence to manage symptoms and seek medical care in patients taking oral oncolytic therapy

Dr Amna Rizvi-Toner, University of Michigan College of Pharmacy, United States. 

205. Pharmacists' views of their roles: Results from a national survey

Marcia M. Worley, B. Pharm., Ph.D., R.Ph., is Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, Merrell Dow Professor, and Chair of the Outcomes and Translational Sciences division at The Ohio State University, College of Pharmacy. Her practice-based research focuses on investigating patient medication use behaviors and outcomes in the context of pharmacist-patient relationships. Dr. Worley has extensive experience in designing and implementing survey research and teaching survey research methodology at the graduate student level. She has published results from her research in peer-reviewed and professional journals and has presented her research at numerous professional and scientific meetings. She received teaching awards while on faculty at the University of Minnesota and is an Associate Editor for Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy. Worley received her BS degree from the University of Pittsburgh in Pharmacy, her MS degree from Ohio State University, and PhD from the University of Minnesota, both in Social and Behavioral Pharmacy.

206. Patient contributions to a multi-state virtual stakeholder engagement advisory group for PatientToc™ 

Betty Chewning is a Professor in the University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy Division of Social and Administrative Sciences.  Her research focuses on patient perspectives, patient-pharmacist communication, social determinants of health, and self-management interventions.  She has a long interest and commitment to stakeholder engagement in her research.

207. Overcoming defensive responding in the estimation of prescription stimulant misuse

Sujith Ramachandran, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Administration and an Assistant Director for the Center for Pharmaceutical Marketing & Management at the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy. His research involves testing and evaluation of healthcare quality measures, and prevention of prescription stimulant misuse. He has extensive experience with administrative claims data from Medicare and Medicaid, and a background in psychometrics and conjoint analytic techniques. He teaches doctoral courses on data management, patient-reported outcomes, and pharmacoepidemiology. He is a recipient of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy’s New Investigator Award and has received funding from federal, commercial, and non-profit organizations for his research.

208. Usability testing of PatientToc™, an electronic patient reported outcomes tool: lessons learned 

Bonyan Qudah is a PhD student in Health Services Research in Pharmacy program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My research interests lie primarily in the area of health communication and use of technology to empower patients to play an active role in the management of their own conditions. 

209. The identification and management of drug-related problems in the emergency department: a narrative review

Dr Dan Greenwood graduated with a First Class MPharm degree from the University of Manchester in 2014, completing his PhD in the same department in 2020. With experience in community, hospital and industry pharmacy, he took up post as Senior Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy at ARU's School of Medicine in September 2019. He is lead for therapeutics and prescribing education, and third year of the MBChB.
Aside from teaching, Dan continues to pursue research interests in pharmacy practice and medicines use, particularly in urgent and emergency care but also medical and pharmacy education. He recently secured £25,000 to develop an intervention to identify drug related problems at emergency department triage. 
Dr Greenwood is also Honorary Lecturer in Pharmacy at the University of Manchester, member of the Joint Formulary Committee of the British National Formulary, and a member of the General Pharmaceutical Council's Accreditation and Recognition panel.

210. Medication use and self-management behavior in Muslim patients diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (work in progress)

Dr Asma Ali is an enthusiastic Postdoctoral Research Fellow who recently was awarded a competitive grant to study Muslim patients with type 2 diabetes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Ali strives to help improve patient’s health, outcomes, healthcare quality, and health equity by conducting quantitative and qualitative research projects. Dr. Ali utilizes prospective and retrospective research methods to create and disseminate scientific knowledge to help inform stakeholders at multiple levels of the healthcare system. 

211. An ethnographic exploration of the medicine use of community dwelling older adults with sensory impairment in Scotland   

Margaret (Mags) Watson is a health services research and registered pharmacist.  She is Professor of Health Services Research and Pharmacy Practice (0.5wte) in the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences,  University Of Strathclyde, Scotland. Her academic career spans over 25 years and has focussed upon the safe and effective use of medicines and effective professional practice.  Her research includes the synthesis of evidence and its implementation into practice, policy and education.  She is the recipient of Fellowships from the Medical Research Council, Leverhulme Foundation and Health Foundation.  Mags has served on a range of national research funding committees, has over 100 peer reviewed publications and is a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.  In 2019, she established her own consultancy business, Watson Research and Training Limited (https://watsonresearchandtraining.co.uk/).  

Basel hub short oral presenting author biographies 

300. Development and evaluation of an e-learning curriculum on drug-related problems for community pharmacists

Viktoria S. Wurmbach is a Pharmacist at the Heidelberg University Hospital. 

301. Community pharmacists' perception on the follow-up of frail patients using food supplements: new avenues for multidisciplinary collaboration 

Dr João Gregório is a Assistant Researcher at CBIOS - Research Center for Biosciences & Health Technologies at Universidade Lusófona. He completed a PhD in International Health with a Specialization in Health Policies, by the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine at Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 2016. He has a professional career divided between Pharmacy and Research and is a specialist in Community Pharmacy since 2009, accumulating more than 10 years of experience. Currently, his research interests focus on all aspects necessary to the use of IT to develop new health services, from information management and health decision-making systems, to training of health professionals, as well as the definition of Public Health Policies.

302. Explorative research on health literacy and self-care behaviours among Malaysian type 2 diabetes patients 

Azrina Ely Ahmad Azhari is a third year PhD student from University of Nottingham Malaysia doing pharmacy practice research. She is a registered pharmacist in Malaysia and in the UK. She worked as a community pharmacist in the UK and Malaysia for 8 years before making a career change to become a lecturer teaching future pharmacy assistant. Pharmacy practice has always been her passion as she believes that pharmacists play a major role in educating the public to lead a happy and healthier life. 

303. Development of a new mHealth app for the monitoring of medication adherence 

Bettina Stalder is a student at the University Of Basel, Switzerland. 

304. Development of quality indicators for community pharmacies; a qualitative study

Ph.D. student Ann Helen Jakobsen has 15 years of experience as a pharmacist and a pharmacy manager. For the last two years, she has been a Ph.D. student at the research group Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacoepidemiology (IPSUM) at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, where she researches quality in primary pharmacy and quality improvement work in relation to pharmacy services in Norway. 

305. Factorial survey methodology to inform pharmacy adherence interventions: comparison of two international studies

Paul Dillon is a pharmacist and holds a PhD in Population Health Sciences and Health Services Research. His academic research focuses on quantifying levels of medication adherence in older ambulatory patients and its determinants, and identifying insights that can support the implementation of a community-pharmacist led adherence intervention. He has recently left academia to pursue a career in the pharmaceutical industry.

306. Exploring patient participation in an interprofessional medication management program in primary care

Robert Moecker is a reseach fellow of the Cooperation Unit Clinical Pharmacy at Heidelberg University Hospital. He studied pharmacy at Free University of Berlin and specialized in medication safety in primary care before starting his PhD in Heidelberg. He is a Member of the German Society for Clinical Pharmacy. Robert has special interest in fostering professional pharmacy services, in particular medication review and medication management services in community pharmacies. This includes qualitative and quantitative obersevational research for service evaluation but also interventional studies. 

307. Pharmacy student knowledge of online pharmacy use and the impact of education

John B. Hertig, PharmD, MS, CPPS, FASHP is Vice-Chair and an Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice in the Butler University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (Indianapolis, USA). Dr. Hertig lectures around the world and publishes on a variety of patient safety, leadership, administration, health policy topics.  Dr. Hertig is a Member of the USFDA Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee. He holds various national and international appointments, including with the International Pharmaceutical Federation, and as President of the Board for the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies where he leads efforts to reduce the patient safety impact of illegal and counterfeit online drug distribution worldwide.  Dr. Hertig received his Bachelor of Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees from Purdue University (USA). He completed a pharmacy administration residency at The Ohio State University Medical Center while obtaining a Masters degree from The Ohio State University (USA).  

308. Using machine learning methods to predict all-cause somatic hospital admissions and readmissions in adults: A systematic review 

Mohsen Askar is a PhD student in pharmacoepidemiology. Current research focuses on using machine learning to predict hospital admission and readmission.

309. The quality of over-the-counter medication counselling in Finnish pharmacies – A simulated patient study

Dr. Katri Hämeen-Anttila (Ph.D. Pharm, Adjunct Professor) works in the Finnish Medicines Agency FIMEA as a Head of Research and Development. She has previously worked in the University of Eastern Finland (previously called University of Kuopio) in various research and teaching positions.
In her current work, Dr. Hämeen-Anttila leads the research and development -team of Fimea. Her own research topics include patient perspective on medicine use, strategic development of medicines information, children’s medicine education and medicine information needs of different patient groups, including patient counselling. 
Dr. Hämeen-Anttila has acted as a member in the scientific committees in social pharmacy congresses and as an Executive Member (representing Europe) in the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) Health and Medicines Information -section (2012–2016). She is a member of the editorial board in the Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy -journal. She has published over 50 original articles in her research area.

310. Pharmacy services tailored to patient's health needs - design of a tool to assist pharmacists in simple medication review

Dr João Gregório is an Assistant Researcher at CBIOS - Research Center for Biosciences & Health Technologies at Universidade Lusófona. He completed a PhD in International Health with a Specialization in Health Policies, by the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine at Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 2016. He has a professional career divided between Pharmacy and Research and is a specialist in Community Pharmacy since 2009, accumulating more than 10 years of experience. Currently, his research interests focus on all aspects necessary to the use of IT to develop new health services, from information management and health decision-making systems, to training of health professionals, as well as the definition of Public Health Policies.

 

 

 

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