Facilitator hub: Sydney
Virtual hub: Chicago

Standard workshop: Overview of pharmacoeconomic methods with hands on training 

Dr Shobha Rani Hiremath 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.

Facilitator hub: Chicago
Virtual hub: Sydney

Advanced workshop: Let’s get it together! Mixed methods pharmacy research to address social determinants of health

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. 

Facilitator hub: Chicago 
Virtual hub: Sydney

Standard workshop: Community-engaged scholarship: Gaining insights from different community-engaged experiences across the continuum

Dr Omolola (Lola) Adeoye-Olatunde, PharmD, MS, is an Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Purdue University College of Pharmacy and holds leadership roles within the Center for Health Equity and Innovation and the Community Health Workforce Development Institute. She earned her PharmD from MCPHS University before completing a PGY1 community-based residency at Kroger Pharmacy followed by a postdoctoral fellowship and MS in Health Services, Outcomes, and Policy at Purdue University. Lola initially sparked an interest in health equity while working as a pharmacy technician at her father’s innovative independently owned community pharmacy. Lola’s research continues to advance health equity through investigating drivers of effective and equitable implementation and provision of community-based health services among populations disproportionately affected by health inequities. She applies theory-driven implementation science, community-engaged, and practice-based research approaches to her work. Lola was a Bowl of Hygeia Award recipient, NIMHD Research Institute Scholar and a Purdue University Societal Impact Fellow.

Dr Manzor Mitrzyk earned her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy in 1992. She continued her education with a pharmacy practice residency at Michigan Medicine. Dr. Manzor Mitrzyk completed the U-M Clinical Pharmacy Translational Science Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in 2019 and is now a clinical assistant professor at the College. She conducts qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research to assess and address medication-related health disparities among Latinx adults with chronic disease. Her research program uses a community based participatory research approach to assess social determinants of health inequities and related discrimination among Latinx adults.

Teresa M. Salgado, MPharm, PhD joined the VCU School of Pharmacy as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacotherapy & Outcomes Science in December 2016. Since January 2022, she also serves as Director of the Center for Pharmacy Practice Innovation. Dr. Salgado earned her PhD in Social-Pharmacy from the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon (Portugal) in 2013 and completed a 2-year Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy in 2016. Her research interests focus primarily on how pharmacists can help improve medication use and health outcomes, as well as interprofessional collaborative models to deliver health care.

Dr Olayinka Shiyanbola is a trained pharmacist who obtained her PhD in Pharmaceutical Socioeconomics from the University of Iowa, United States. She is an Associate Professor in the Division of Social and Administrative Sciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy, and Associate Director at the UW Collaborative Center for Health Equity. Her research program advances the use of patient-centered interdisciplinary approaches to improve diabetes and related chronic disease outcomes in marginalized populations, medication adherence, health literacy and health equity. Dr. Shiyanbola was a NIMHD Research Institute Scholar, NHLBI/OBSSR Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials Fellow, NIH Mixed Methods Research Training Program Scholar, and Society of Behavioral Medicine Leadership Fellow. She is an appointed member of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Roundtable on Health Literacy.

Dr Karen Farris is the Charles R. Walgreen III Professor at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy and is Director of the Clinical Pharmacy Translational Sciences Graduate and Fellowship Program. She is a pharmacy health services researcher, focusing on how individuals manage medications and how pharmacists influence medication use. Her most recent work is focused on the symptom experience and medication adherence with oral anti-cancer agents. Dr. Farris was named Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor Award in Biological/Life Sciences at the University of Iowa in 2007, and Distinguished Clinical and Translational Research Mentor in 2016 at the University of Michigan. She has over 130 peer-reviewed publications and has obtained over $7 million in PI/co-PI grants and over $8 million as co-investigator.

Facilitator hub: Sydney
Virtual hub: Chicago

Standard workshop: Development of simulation-based education activities for pharmacy students: Learning from experience

Dr Leanne Chalmers is currently a Senior Lecturer and Discipline Lead in Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice at Curtin University. She is a registered pharmacist, experienced pharmacy researcher and successful teacher. Throughout her career, Leanne has developed expertise in curriculum and assessment review, development of course-level learning outcomes and establishing benchmarking relationships with other institutions. She has a diverse track record in scholarly research, encompassing interprofessional learning, benchmarking, computer simulation and student mental health and well-being. She has supervised one PhD candidate to completion in scholarship, in a project focussed on explicit articulation of competency standards with the pharmacy curriculum. Her efforts as a pharmacy educator have resulted in Leanne being awarded two University of Tasmania Teaching Merit Certificates. She is a strong advocate for quality student experiences – experiences that will promote students' intellectual curiosity and empower them with the attributes necessary to succeed in their lives and careers.

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.

Facilitator hub: Sydney
Virtual hub: Basel

Advanced workshop: Building capacity in conducting systematic reviews and meta-analyses

Dr Edwin Tan is a Senior Lecturer, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney. He is also a registered pharmacist with clinical experience in both Australia and the UK. Dr Tan's research interests are in pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacy practice, quality use of medicines and cognitive health and ageing. 

Facilitator hub: Sydney
Virtual hub: Basel

Standard workshop: Using Evidence to Decision (EtD) frameworks to contextualise clinical practice guideline recommendations

Aili Langford is a registered Pharmacist and PhD Candidate within the School of Pharmacy at the University of Sydney. She completed her Bachelor of Pharmacy (Hons) at the University of Sydney in 2017. After obtaining general registration as a hospital pharmacist, she returned to undertake her PhD in 2019, leading the development of evidence-based opioid deprescribing guidelines.

Dr Carl Schneider, The University of Sydney School of Pharmacy, Australia. 

Facilitator hub: Basel
Virtual hub: Sydney

Advanced workshop: Planetary health – global illness: The (future) role of sustainable pharmacy

Professor Michael Müller studied chemistry at the University of Bonn. After receiving the Diplom degree, he did his doctorate at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich under the guidance of Prof. Wolfgang Steglich. Following a one-year research exchange at the University of Washington, Seattle (Prof. Heinz G. Floss), working on the biosynthesis of antibiotics, he became the Group Leader of Bioorganic Chemistry at the Research Centre Juelich. Prof. Müller qualified as a University Lecturer for Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry in 2002 and was appointed Professor of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Freiburg in 2004. His research interests include chemoenzymatic synthesis, natural products, asymmetric synthesis, and sustainability.

Facilitator hub: Sydney 
Virtual hub: Basel 

Standard workshop: Using agent-based models to simulate behavior: An introductory workshop

Mr Ardalan Mirzaei, The University of Sydney School of Pharmacy, Australia. 

Dr Carl Schneider, The University of Sydney School of Pharmacy, Australia. 

Facilitator hub: Chicago  
Virtual hub: Basel

Advanced workshop: Moderation and mediation analysis with binary outcomes: A discussion of advanced topics with applications to social pharmacy research

John P. Bentley is a Professor of Pharmacy Administration at the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy with a joint appointment in the Department of Marketing in the School of Business Administration. He also serves as the Director of the Center for Pharmaceutical Marketing & Management. He previously served as the Chair of the Department of Pharmacy Administration and the Program Coordinator for the University’s Graduate Minor in Applied Statistics. He received his BS in Pharmacy and MBA from Drake University, MS and PhD in Pharmacy Administration from the University of Mississippi, and MS and PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Bentley teaches elements of biostatistics, research design, epidemiology, and drug literature evaluation to pharmacy students and several applied statistics courses at the graduate level. He has conducted research in various areas including: patient-reported outcomes; medication use, misuse, and outcomes; pharmacoepidemiology; medication adherence; pharmaceutical marketing; and practice management. His statistics interests include longitudinal data analysis, statistical mediation and moderation analysis, and latent variable analysis. He has been a member of many interdisciplinary research teams and has consulted with numerous researchers concerning statistical analysis.

Teresa M. Salgado, MPharm, PhD, joined the VCU School of Pharmacy as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacotherapy & Outcomes Science in December 2016. Since January 2022, she also serves as Director of the Center for Pharmacy Practice Innovation. Dr. Salgado earned her PhD in Social-Pharmacy from the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon (Portugal) in 2013 and completed a 2-year Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy in 2016. Her research interests focus primarily on how pharmacists can help improve medication use and health outcomes, as well as interprofessional collaborative models to deliver health care.

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.

Facilitator hub: Chicago  
Facilitator hub: Basel

Standard workshop: Biologicals and biosimilars: how pharmacists can be prepared for patients’ needs

Dr Isabelle Arnet studied pharmacy at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich (Switzerland) and completed her PhD at the Department of Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology of the University Hospital in Basel, Switzerland. She is now leading the research group “adherence” at the Pharmaceutical Care Research Group in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Basel. She assists in developing Pharmaceutical care as a core competency of the pharmacy workforce within the Swiss health system. She is board member of the Pharmaceutical Care Network Europe since 2018.

Dr Christiane Eickhoff works as a research associate at the ABDA - Federal Union of German Associations of Pharmacists in Berlin, Germany. Her work centres on pharmacy practice research with a focus on the development and evaluation of community pharmacy services. Christiane runs the professional secretariat of the “Foerderinitiative Pharmazeutische Betreuung” (Initiative for Pharmaceutical Care), an organisation aiming to establish pharmaceutical care in Germany, e.g. by consulting and funding research projects and organizing workshops. Christiane is a lecturer at the Freie Universitaet, Berlin, and regularly presents at conferences both in Germany and internationally.  

Isabelle and Christiane were educated with the old-fashioned view of a pharmacist as expert in chemistry and molecules, where patients were silent recipients of pharmacotherapy and whose opinions and beliefs were seldom asked. With the new role of pharmacists, new challenges had to be faced. Isabelle’s and Christiane’s research is since several years focused on developing and evaluating instruments and services for pharmacists in primary care in Switzerland and Germany, in two different healthcare systems but with very similar patients’ needs.

David P. Zgarrick is Professor in the School of Pharmacy at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. He is a licensed pharmacist, receiving a BS in Pharmacy from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and a MS and PhD in Pharmaceutical Administration from The Ohio State University. He teaches pharmacy practice management and entrepreneurship in the health sciences. His scholarly interests include pharmacy workforce research, pharmacy management and operations, pharmacy education, and development of post-graduate programs. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed manuscripts and abstracts, is co-editor of the textbook Pharmacy Management: Essentials for All Practice Settings (5th Ed) and authored the book Getting Started as a Pharmacy Faculty Member. Dr. Zgarrick is active in many professional organizations, including the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) and the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP).

Facilitator hub: Basel 
Virtual hub: Chicago 

Standard workshop: Valuing what really matters in faculty performance reviews

Dr Federico Facciolo is pursuing his PhD in Social and Administrative Pharmacy and is working as a research assistant in the Department of Pharmaceutical Care & Health Systems at the University of Minnesota. He earned an MS in Social and Administrative Pharmacy from Creighton University. He also earned a Master’s in Pharmaceutical Technology and Regulatory Affairs, and a Pharmacy degree from the University of Pavia, Italy, after which he obtained his pharmacist license. 
Dr Facciolo’s primary research interests focus on using program evaluation to evaluate pharmacy faculty performance review processes. He has conducted survey and mixed methods research and published peer-reviewed articles on community pharmacy services and pharmacy policy. Dr Facciolo has also worked as a teaching assistant and a regulatory affairs intern at a global pharmaceutical company. Dr Facciolo’s career goal is to become a professor and bring social and administrative pharmacy into Italian and European pharmacy schools’ curricula.

Facilitator hub: Chicago 
Virtual hub: Basel 

Standard workshop: Strategies for gender equity in pharmacy academia and professional associations

Dr Lourdes G Planas, University of Oklahoma, United States, 

Dr Karen Nagel-Edwards, Midwestern University, United States

Dr Ana Quinones-Boex, Midwestern University, United States, 

Dr David Zgarrick, Northeastern University, United States

Facilitator hub: Sydney 
Virtual hub: Chicago 

Building global capacity in research ethics and integrity - How do we conduct research with ethical integrity?

Associate Professor Betty Chaar is an academic in Pharmacy Practice and Professional Ethics at the University of Sydney, School of Pharmacy. She holds a Master degree in Health Law and her PhD is about developing moral reasoning capabilities and application in pharmacy practice. Dr Chaar works on promoting moral reasoning in the delivery of healthcare services by pharmacists in all aspects of practice, ranging from the everyday matters of pharmacy practice to considerations regarding issues in the broader domain of bioethics. Betty is Chair of Family Planning NSW Health Human Research  Committee,  an active member on a number of Human, Research Ethics committees, past President of the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics [AAPAE], member of the Australian Pharmacy Council [APC] Examining Committee, co-chair of the Working Group on Pharmacist Ethics and Professional Autonomy of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP),  a member of the Program Committee of FIP, and Fellow of the FIP.

Dr Irene Um, The University of Sydney, Australia 

Facilitator hub: Sydney
Virtual hub: Chicago 

Standard workshop: Embracing pharmacy's contribution to the health of populations

Coming from a background of community and accredited pharmacy positions, Mrs Robin Warren has worked in a range of roles in the primary health sector including educational visiting to health professionals, management of Quality Use of Medicines initiatives and clinical trials, and evaluation of health services.  With postgraduate public health qualifications, she has contributed to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and supervision of pharmacy at James Cook University.   Currently, she enjoys a role in health program management for Western Queensland Primary Health Network.  She is interested in the contributions that pharmacists can make to health systems, exploring this in depth in a PhD project.

Professor Beverley Glass, James Cook University, Australia.  

Facilitator hub: Chicago 
Virtual hub: Sydney 

Advanced workshop: Projecting demand for patient care pharmacists

David Kreling is Emeritus Professor of Social and Administrative Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He is a founding member of the Midwest Pharmacy Workforce Consortium and has conducted workforce research throughout his career on state and national levels.  In 2017, he retired after 33 years of active teaching at the School of Pharmacy, but has continued research activities with his Midwest Consortium colleagues.

Facilitator hub: Chicago
Virtual hub: Sydney 

Standard workshop: Engaging with engagement and coproduction

Professor Margaret (Mags) Watson is a health services researcher and registered pharmacist.  She is Professor of Health Services Research and Pharmacy Practice in the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences. 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/

Reidun Lisbet S Kjome is an associate professor of social pharmacy at the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, and head of the Centre for Pharmacy at the University of Bergen, Norway. She is very much a generalist when it comes to research, with interests spanning from diabetes, pharmacy services and nursing home medicine, to dental prescribing, interprofessional collaboration and educational research. Lately, her focus is on what type of pharmacists we will be needing in the future and following this, how learning and assessment methods shape what kind of pharmacists we get. (www.fremfarm.com) 

Facilitator hub: Sydney 
Facilitator hub: Chicago 

Standard workshop: Writing for impact: Health literacy considerations for policy, research and education

Professor Parisa Aslani, PhD, BPharm(Hons), MSc, G Cert Ed Stud (Higher Ed), is the Professor in Medicines Use Optimisation at The University of Sydney School of Pharmacy. She is currently Deputy Head of School and Director of Academic Career Development. She is a fellow of FIP, currently a FIP Vice President, and Immediate Past President of the Health and Medicines Information Section.
Parisa has been a researcher and educator in the field of consumer medicine information and adherence for over 25 years.  She has over 160 research articles in peer-reviewed journals; 4 books and 7 book chapters; and over 200 presentations at international conferences.

Beth Martin, RPh, PhD, FAPhA, has been on faculty since 1998, and is chair of the Pharmacy Practice Division. Her clinical and research expertise are in the areas of migraine headache, tobacco cessation, motivational interviewing, older adult medication management and fall prevention. Her current Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality grant, in conjunction with the Michigan State School of Packaging, is studying how older adults interface with over-the-counter medication packaging and make decisions about medication safety. She has played a lead role in several research projects focused on creating and evaluating educational tools and self-efficacy scales, and patient-directed health communication educational programming. Beth is a member of the editorial board of Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy and a peer reviewer for several others.

Facilitator hub: Sydney 
Virtual hub: Basel 

Standard workshop: Assessing pharmacy case difficulty using the Health Case Difficulty Cube 

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 the case difficulty cube has enabled Joy to gain a greater understanding of the issues facing educators as they prepare cases as assessment tasks.

Dr Gregg Maynard, Charles Stuart University, Australia. 

Facilitator hub: Sydney 
Virtual hub: Basel

Standard workshop: Procedures, documentation and communication can help build capacity 

Carlene Smith AM, B. Pharm MPS AACPA has broad experience in community pharmacy in Sydney over many years. Her innovative staffing policies and creative management have improved many businesses. Carlene is also an accredited pharmacist and her enthusiasm for medication review has been contagious, with some pharmacists changing their practice to include medication review. There have been many successful roles held by Carlene over many years, researcher, teacher, liaison, mentor, negotiator and administrator. Ultimately, communication is the key to any role and is necessary for successful medication review. In recent times Carlene has been acting as a consultant to community pharmacies to improve their Professional Pharmacy Services. In the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2019 Carlene was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia. Carlene’s ability to prioritise and her positive attitude to new challenges has enabled her to be a successful manager in her various roles.

Facilitator hub: Basel 
Virtual hub: Sydney 

Standard workshop: Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) evaluation – what can we measure and how can we do it?

Viktoria Jungreithmayr is a pharmacist by training, who is currently pursuing her PhD at the Cooperation Unit Clinical Pharmacy, at the Heidelberg University Hospital. She is passionate about how we can use digital technologies to enhance drug therapy safety. In her PhD project she is focusing on the evaluation of the current implementation of a computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system at the Heidelberg University Hospital. 

Janina Bittmann is also a pharmacist doing her PhD at the Cooperation Unit Clinical Pharmacy at Heidelberg University Hospital. In her PhD thesis she addresses modulators optimizing the acceptance of medication alerts generated in clinical decision support systems integrated in CPOE systems with the goal of improving drug therapy safety. Moreover, she is involved in CPOE implementation and evaluation at Heidelberg University Hospital. 

Facilitator hub: Sydney 
Facilitator hub: Basel 

Standard workshop: An introduction to realist research

Debra Rowett is Professor and Discipline Leader Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences at the University of South Australia and Director of the Drug and Therapeutics Information Service (DATIS), Southern Adelaide Local Health Network. Debra is a member of the national Drug Utilisation Sub-Committee of the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC). 
Debra has worked extensively in the area of quality use of medicines, inter-professional practice, health policy and workforce development in Australia and internationally. Debra has also been at the forefront of academic detailing training and implementation in Australia and her research and clinical interests are in implementation science, inter-professional communication and practice. Debra uses realist thinking in the design and evaluation of professional and patient-orientated services.

Dr Karen Luetsch has a clinical and teaching background. After a career as a specialist pharmacist and manager in hospital health services she led a team in developing, managing and evaluating the implementation of educational programs focusing on quality use of medicines, medication and patient safety in primary care (e.g. general practice, community pharmacy), secondary and tertiary health care.
As an educator in the tertiary education sector she developed and delivered curricula and the evaluation of innovative learning in undergraduate and postgraduate healthcare degrees. 
Currently Karen works as a Senior Research Fellow at the University of South Australia, providing evidence updates for clinical specialists and planning a realist evaluation of a major quality use of medicines program. 
Karen got serious about realist research at a course in Oxford, when she started a realist synthesis with the only other attending pharmacist colleague. Most of her qualitative evaluation research is now guided by realist logic, she and Debra would like to share their experience in applying this approach to the evaluation of social and professional programs. 

Facilitator hub: Chicago 
Facilitator hub: Basel 

Advanced workshop: Medicine optimization for older adults with cognitive and sensory impairments

Professor 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/).  

Dr Tejal Patel is an Associate Clinical Professor and Co-Director, Master of Advanced Pharmacy Practice Program at the University of Waterloo (UW) School of Pharmacy, Pharmacy Lead for the MINT Memory Clinics at the Centre for Family Medicine Family Health Team and Research Scientist, Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging.  Dr. Patel obtained her Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees from the University of Kentucky and completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Pharmacokinetics and Neurology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  Dr. Patel’s clinical practice and research program centers on: 1. Identifying medication related problems in persons with neurological disorders, especially older adults; 2. Examining the impact of interventions with a particular focus on the role of the pharmacist and; 3. Investigating the role of healthcare technology in addressing the medication taking behaviour and self-management by older adults.

Facilitator hub: Chicago 
Virtual hub: Basel 

Standard workshop: Facilitating safe pharmacy practice and workplaces

Dr Nancy Alvarez, The University of Arizona-Phoenix, United States

Dr Caroline Gaither, University of Minnesota, United States

Prof Jon C Schommer, University of Minnesota, United States

Dr Ana Quinones-Boex, Midwestern University, United States