Dr Kylie Williams

Lecturer, Pharmacy Practice

Qualifications

B.Pharm, DipHosp.Pharm, PhD

Contact Details

University of Sydney
Phone: +61 2 9351 6063
Fax: +61 2 9351 4391
Email:
Room S303
Pharmacy Building A15
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

Research Interests

Dr Williams’ main research interest is consumer self-care and pharmacy’s role in this, with a focus on non-prescription drugs, and the use of technology.

Consumers are becoming increasingly involved in self-management and decision-making regarding their health, and are requiring timely and convenient access to health services. Pharmacy is well positioned to assist consumers with self-care as pharmacies are widely distributed and, therefore, extremely accessible. Pharmacists could be involved with many aspects of self-care, including provision of non-prescription drugs and advice, chronic disease management, preventative health care and health promotion.

Dr Williams’ interest in the area of self-care began with her PhD which focused on how consumers used non-prescription non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, as well as developing an innovative methodology for monitoring actual use of non-prescription products and consumer self-medication behaviour. Since then, this methodology has been widely used to explore consumer use of such medications as paracetamol, pseudoephedrine and the emergency oral contraceptive. Dr Williams has also been involved in a nation-wide study of community pharmacy interventions in the non-prescription area, which has been used as evidence to maintain the current Pharmacy and Pharmacist-only Medicine schedules (S2 and S3). Recent work includes the evaluation of pharmacists’ perspectives on the provision of the emergency contraceptive pill and pseudo-patient testing of the service provided in community pharmacies in relation to the emergency contraceptive pill.

Dr Williams is also interested in the impact of technology on pharmacy and consumer self-care. Recent projects in this area include: telepharmacy – the use of videoconferencing to provide patient discharge counseling; the provision of drug information via videoconferencing; pharmacists’ use of online health information and their search strategies; consumer and pharmacist use of Internet-based medicine information; ePharmacy and Standards of Practice; blogging and the development of critical reflection in pharmacy; using a wiki to enhance collaboration in problem based learning; Australian consumers and DTCA on the Internet.

Select Journal Articles

1. Roberts AS, Benrimoj SI, Chen TF, Williams KA, Aslani P (2008). Practice change in community pharmacy: Quantification of facilitators, Annals of Pharmacotherapy, 42: 861-868.
2. Roberts A, Benrimoj SI, Chen TF, Williams KA, Aslani P (2006). Implementing cognitive services in community pharmacy: A review of models and frameworks for change, International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 14: 105-113.
3. Roberts A, Benrimoj SI, Chen TJ, Williams KA, Hopp TR, Aslani P (2005). Understanding practice change in community pharmacy: A qualitative study in Australia, Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, 1: 546-564.
4. Benrimoj SI, Carroll P, Emmerton L, Gadiel D, Taylor R, Williams K (2005). A cost-benefit analysis of pharmacist only (S3) and pharmacy medicines (S2) and risk-based evaluation of the standards, Final Report.
5. Williams KA, Gelgor L, Aslani P (2004). Use of non-prescription products. Australian Journal of Pharmacy, 85: 492-493.
6. Peterson G, Aslani P, Williams KA (2004). Consumer use of the Internet for medicines information, International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 12: 185-190.
7. Peterson G, Aslani P, Williams KA (2003). How do consumers search for and appraise information on medicines on the Internet? A qualitative study using focus groups, Journal of Medical Internet Research, 5(4): e33.
8. Pham L, Langford J, Williams KA (2003). 5-HT3 antagonists in the treatment of postoperative nausea and vomitin, Pharmacy Practice and Research, 33(4): 275-278.
9. Williams KA, Wong I (2003). Searching for health information on the Internet: a pilot evaluation of pharmacists’ skills, Australian Pharmacist, 22(9):716-719.
10. Peterson G, Aslani P, Williams KA (2003). Consumers, medicine information and searching the Internet – How the Internet influences the way consumers use their medicines, Australian Journal of Pharmacy, 84:186-189.