Pharmacy Practice Research
Dr Parisa Aslani
Consumers attitudes to CMI and the impact of CMI on their medication taking behaviour.
The use of CMI by community pharmacists.
Consumer/patient adherence to drug therapy.
Developing interventions to promote concordance between patients and pharmacists.
Dr Parisa Aslani/Prof SI Benrimoj/Tim Chen/Dr Kylie Williams
Pharmacy Practice Management.
Dr Sinthia Bosnic-Anticevich
Optimisation of asthma management through pharmacy intervention.
Respiratory devices - role of the pharmacist and the impact of pharmacy intervention.
Substitution of Metered Dose Inhalers (MDI) with spacer for nebulisers in asthma patients in the community.
Long-acting beta agonists and the community.
Pharmacy Clinical Intervention - rates and remuneration.
Pharmacy students changing perceptions of their profession through the new BPharm in the Faculty of Pharmacy.
Dr Kylie Williams
Consumer use of nonprescription drugs.
The use of technology in the delivery of pharmaceutical services.
Pharmacoepidemiology.
Rebekah Moles/Professor C Benrimoj
Pharmacy services in NSW private hospitals. What are the clinical activities, time required, accreditation, perceptions of economic and clinical benefit?
Tim Chen
Domicillary Medication Review (DMR).
Group comparative study, benefits of such services (clinical, economic, humanistic).
Tim Chen/C Larkin
Continuity of care: The hospital/community pharmacy interface.
Tim Chen/Dr Ines Krass
Development, implementation and evaluation of a community pharmacists delivered screening and health promotion service package for cardiovascular disease. Cholesterol Triglycerides and LDL and blood sugar in Upper Hunter.
Professor Jo-anne Brien
Hospital pharmacy clinical services.
Development and evaluation of clinical pharmacy services, including cross sector studies (public/private; hospital/community practice); evaluation of clinical therapeutic drug monitoring services.
Clinical pharmacokinetics in specific patient populations, for example, HIV.
Quality use of medicine (QUM), evidence based practice projects.
Continuum of QUM in heart failure patients (role of the pharmacist in a specialist/general practice outreach program focusing on role of b blockers).
Lance Emerson/Prof SI Benrimoj
A system to assist community health care teams facilitate the Quality Use of Medicines (QUM) in rural and remote areas.
Dr Linda Gelgor/Prof SI Benrimoj
Novel methods of assessing pain and inflammation.
Assessment of the efficacy of over the counter medications used to treat oral disorders.
Dr Abilio de Almeido Neto/Prof SI Benrimoj
The implementation of standards of practice for the provision of pharmacist only and pharmacy medicines in community pharmacy.
Behaviour change in a pharmacy setting. How to facilitate change in practice behaviour of pharmacists and pharmacy assistants.
Paula Whitehead/Prof SI Benrimoj
The provision of professional pharmacy services by a general practice pharmacist - a clinical and economic evaluation.
Dr Ines Krass/Dr Parisa Aslani
Consumer attitudes to and evaluation of medicines information. Consumers attitudes to and experience of extended services in community pharmacy.
Dr Ines Krass/Prof Carol Armour
Disease state management in asthma and diabetes.
Dr Ines Krass/Beata Bajorek
Optimising use of anticoagulation in geriatric patients with atrial fibrillation.
Dr Ines Krass/Tim Chen/R Warne
Use of psychotropics in nursing homes.
Dr Ines Krass/Tim Chen/Y Raimoto
Use of anginal prophylaxis in community pharmacy.
Dr Sue Taylor
Pharmacoeconomics - the economic evaluation of Pharmacy services, for example a specialised diabetes program implemented by pharmacists.
A comparison of clinical outcomes in one Sydney teaching hospital following induction of labour with either misoprostol or dinoprostone.
Dr Margaret Hughes/Prof Carol Armour
Human airway smooth muscle cell proliferation and cytokine secretion in asthma.
Lymphocyte-airway smooth muscle cell interactions in asthma.
Regulation of human lung mast cell function.
Modulation of lymphocyte cytokine production.
Dr Margaret Hughes/Dr Elizabeth Benson
Monitoring immune responses to HIV following immunotherapeutic interventions.