Associate Professor Ines Krass

Head, Discipline of Pharmacy Practice

Qualifications

BPharm, Dip Hosp Pharm, Grad Dip Educ Studies (Health Ed), PhD

Contact Details

University of Sydney
Phone: +61 2 9351 3507
Fax: +61 2 9351 4391
Email:
Room S242
Pharmacy Building A15
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

Background

Associate Professor Krass is the Head of the Discipline of Pharmacy Practice in the Faculty of Pharmacy, at the University of Sydney. In 16 years in academia, she has been highly successful and productive in research. Over her career – 1994 to this year – Associate Professor Krass has been successful with competitive grants valued at just over $7million ($2.4 million as CI). She has published widely, with 85 peer reviewed publications, and written as many articles for the profession. She has organised and chaired both national and international scientific meetings and is a regular reviewer for pharmacy, social science and diabetes journals. She has been an invited speaker at both national and international conferences. Associate Professor Krass has supervised 18 higher degree students to completion of their higher degree (nine PhDs, five Master of Pharmacy/Clinical Pharmacy students, four Diploma in Hospital pharmacy projects) is currently supervising four higher degree students.

Research Interests

Associate Professor Krass is an internationally recognized pharmacy researcher whose research focuses on Health Services Research in Community Pharmacy. This involves the development, implementation and evaluation of chronic disease care models delivered by pharmacists for asthma and diabetes; screening and prevention of diabetes, CV disease , asthma and sleep disorders and the validation of measures of pharmacist and consumer attitudes and behaviours. Her broad areas of research interest span the development and evaluation of extended professional pharmacy services with a particular focus on community practice. Over recent years she has been intensively involved in research on the development and implementation of disease state management programs (DSM) in community pharmacy for type 2 diabetes and asthma. She led a national research team which published the first Australian evidence supporting the role of the community pharmacist in caring for patients with diabetes. Based on this evidence, the pharmacy care model in diabetes has been funded as a national implementation trial under the 4th Guild Government agreement. She currently leads the research team implementing and evaluating the translation of this diabetes care model in 85 Australian pharmacies.

Associate Professor Krass also has a special research interest in measurement and instrument validation. A series of instruments to assess the attitudes, knowledge, behaviours and satisfaction of both pharmacists and consumers have been developed and validated.

Higher Degree Research Candidates

• Bassett-Clarke, Deborah M.
  Master of Philosophy, part-time
  "Ethnic differences in medicine taking"
  Start: July 2004
  Submit: July 2012
  Primary Supervisor: Bajorek
• Fuller, Joanne M.
  Doctor of Philosophy, part-time
  "The role of pharmacy in sleep health"
  Start: July 2008
  Submit: July 2016
  Primary Supervisor: Saini
• Giam Lee, Jennifer A.
  Doctor of Philosophy, part-time
  "Quality use of extemporaneous preparations to satisfy unmet medication needs in the community."
  Start: February 2005
  Submit: February 2013
  Secondary Supervisor: McLachlan
• Masood, Norman
  Master of Philosophy
  "Computerised Antithrombotic Risk Assessment Tool (CARAT) Project: Developing an algorithm for antithrombotic selection for stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation"
  Start: July 2005
  Submit: July 2013
  Primary Supervisor: Bajorek
• Van, Connie
  Doctor of Philosophy
  "Inter-professional collaboration between pharmacists and other healthcare professionals."
  Start: February 2008
  Submit: February 2012
  Secondary Supervisor: Mitchell

Select Journal Articles

1. Krass, I and Smith C Impact of Medication Regimen Reviews (MRR) performed by community pharmacists for ambulatory patients through liaison with local general medical practitioners Intl J Pharm Prac 2000; 8:111-120.
2. Ines Krass, Bonnie Svarstad , and Dara Bultman Using Alternative Methodologies for Evaluating Patient Medication Leaflets Patient Educ Couns 2002; 47:29-35.
3. Hourihan F, Krass I, Chen TC 'Rural Community Pharmacy: A Feasible Site for a Health Promotion and Screening Service for Cardiovascular Risk Factors'. Aust J Rural Health 2003; 11, 28-35(8).
4. Charlotte Rossing, Ebba Holme Hansen, Ines Krass Barriers and facilitators in pharmaceutical care: Perceptions and experiences among Danish community pharmacists.J Soc Admin Pharm 2002 ;19:55-64
5. Saini B, Krass I, Armour CA Development, Implementation and Evaluation of a Community Pharmacy Based Asthma Care Model Ann Pharmacother 2004. 38;11:1954-1960.
6. I Krass, C Armour, B Mitchell, M Brillant, R Dienaar, J Hughes, P Lau, G Peterson, K Stewart, S Taylor, J Wilkinson. The Pharmacy Diabetes Care Program: Evaluating the impact of a diabetes service model delivered by community pharmacists in Australia Diabetic Medicine 2007; 24:677-683.
7. Carol Armour, Sinthia Bosnic-Anticevich, Martha Brillant, Debbie Burton, Lynne Emmerton, Ines Krass, Bandana Saini, Lorraine Smith, Kay Stewart. Pharmacy Asthma Care Program (PACP) improves outcomes for patients in the community, Thorax 2007 62: 496-502.
8. Koo M, Krass I, Aslani P Factors Influencing Consumer Use of Written Drug Information Ann Pharmacother 2003;37: 259-267.
9. Koo M, Krass I, Aslani P. Enhancing patient education about medicines: factors influencing reading and seeking of written medicine information. Health Expect, 2006; 9:174-187.
10. BV Bajorek, I Krass, SJ Ogle, MJ Duguid, GM Shenfield, Optimizing the use of antithrombotic therapy for atrial fibrillation in the elderly: A pharmacist-led multidisciplinary intervention JAGS, 2005. 53:1912-20.