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Oral Presentations 20: Clinical Pharmacology Geriatric 1

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Track 4
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

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Dr Kenji Fujita
Kolling Institute/University of Sydney

Impact of Drug Burden Index-guided stewardship intervention on deprescribing in older inpatients

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Dr. Kenji Fujita is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Ageing and Pharmacology, Kolling Institute, University of Sydney. His research focuses on evaluating interventions for deprescribing inappropriate polypharmacy in older inpatients, developing a multidomain frailty index using routinely collected clinical data, and investigating the impact of deprescribing on physical functions in older mice with polypharmacy using neural network models. Since 2020, he has served as the working group co-lead on guidelines and indicators within the Pharmaceutical Care Network Europe (PCNE). With expertise in big data analysis, epidemiology, statistical modelling, and web application development, he has co-led a Japanese government funded project developing and validating quality indicators for community pharmacies (2024-2026).
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Dr Shin Liau
Monash University

Maximising the implementability of deprescribing recommendations

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Dr Lorna Pairman
University Of Otago

Quantifying polypharmacy and medicines use in hospital

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Mrs Yuxing Liu
Monash University

Prevalence of benzodiazepines, Z-drugs, and melatonin in Australian residential aged care facilities

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Dr Mouna Sawan
Senior Lecturer
School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney

Priorities for medication management information resources for people with dementia and carers

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Mouna Sawan is a pharmacist, early to mid-career pharmacist researcher and Dementia Fellow with expertise in medication safety and dementia, based in the School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney. Since 2018, Mouna has secured $5.5M in research funding and have been awarded the 2023 Bellberry New Investigator Award Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists Pharmacoepidemiology. With support from the Medical Research Future Fund, NHMRC and Dementia Australia Research Fund, she has led innovative research programs focused on co-designing medication management resources for people with dementia and carers. Notably, Mouna developed a co-design framework to develop resources aimed to empower people with dementia and their carers in the quality use of medicines, establishing her expertise in dementia care. She was recently awarded the 2025 Sydney Health Partners Award for Partnering with Consumers in Health Research.
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Dr Simon Hurley
Flinders Medical Centre

Drug-drug interactions and association with readmission or mortality in older adults

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