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Pharmacy Practice & Quality Use of Medicines Researcher and Lecturer Lisa completed her Bachelor of Pharmacy at The University of Queensland, graduating in 1993, followed by pre-registration and subsequent employment as a pharmacist with Queensland Health at metropolitan and rural hospitals. She returned to UQ to undertake a PhD focusing on the quality use of medicines, which was completed in 2002. Following one year of postdoctoral research, she took up a position of lecturer in June 2003 and Senior Lecturer in 2006.
Lisa is interested in improving the way in which medications are used, especially in the general community, and this forms the basis of her teaching, research, and professional activities.
Professional role:
Lisa actively contributes to the Pharmacy profession in many ways including presenting lectures at continuing education events and writing regular articles for Australian Pharmacist. In 2008 Lisa won the National Prescribing Service biennial QUM Media award for her monthly column ‘old drug – new indication’ in Australian Pharmacist.
Lisa was the elected chairman of the Queensland branch committee of the Society of Hospital Pharmacists (SHPA) in 2004-2006 and became a Fellow of SHPA in 2007. After being involved with the continuing education committee of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) Queensland branch for many years, Lisa was elected to the council in 2006 and President of the Queensland Branch of the PSA in 2007. Lisa was then elected to represent Queensland on the National Board of the PSA in 2008 and became National Vice President in 2009.
Lisa was awarded the PSA Young Pharmacist of the Year in 2002 and the PSA Pharmacist of the Year in 2008 – she is the youngest recipient of the Pharmacist of the Year and the only person to have received both awards.
Lisa represents the pharmacy profession and provides advice to local, national and international groups on the role of pharmacists in healthcare and the quality use of medicines. This includes work with organisations such as the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, the International Pharmacy Federation, and the World Health Organisation.
Teaching:
Lisa received a UQ Commendation for Excellence in Teaching in 2006 a UQ Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2007, and won an Australian Award for University Teaching from the Australian Learning & Teaching Council (formally known as the Carrick Institute) in 2008.
Lisa teaches into the therapeutics and professional practice areas of the Pharmacy courses, and regularly contributes lectures to other disciplines within UQ and other Universities. She is a member of the Faculty of Health Sciences Interprofessional Education Committee and the UQ Teaching and Learning Committee.
Research Interests:
Lisa has a wide range of research interests which are clustered into four themes: cognitive services, factors influencing prescribing, clinical topics and scholarship in teaching.
She has supervised 2 PhD students, 1 DClinPharm student, and 13 honours and MClinPharm students to completion, and currently supervises 9 PhD students and over 15 MPhil, MClinPharm and honours students.
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