Sat 26 Aug 2023
SHPA WA Branch Symposium | Research Symposium 2023
With the Medicines Management 2023, the 47th SHPA National Conference, around the corner, the WA Branch is offering WA members the opportunity to improve their chances of success and showcase their work locally at our 2023 Research Symposium.
What have you been working on? What have you discovered? Are you planning to present at MM2023?
The SHPA WA Branch is building on the momentum of successful previous research events by holding a half-day Research Symposium on Saturday 26 August 2023. Hear about the impressive work in research and quality improvement being done by SHPA members across WA and be inspired by special guest speakers.
The face-to-face program will include the opportunity for pharmacists and technicians to present the findings of their own work, perhaps the most important aspect of any research or quality improvement project! Registrations are now open and abstract submissions are welcomed. Abstract submissions close Tuesday 15 August.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS VIA THIS LINK
Dr Libby McCourt (BPhrm, GCPubHlth, PhD)
Medication Utilisation Review, Quality Improvement, and Research Pharmacist at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and is the co-chair of the Society of Hospital Pharmacists Australia Research Leadership Committee. Libby’s work at RBWH focuses on the mentoring and supervision of all clinicians to undertake medication use evaluation, quality improvement, and research projects. Libby is passionate about all things research and strives to make the process easier and more manageable for those who are new to research. Libby’s own research interest lie in pharmacy practice in resource poor settings, public health, and disaster management. She has worked in Australia and abroad including in America, Sri Lanka, Solomon Islands, and the Philippines.
Professor Lee Yong Lim BSc(Pharm)(Hons), PhD Pharmacy, School of Allied Health, University of Western Australia.
She heads the Laboratory for Drug Delivery which engages in multi-disciplinary research to design, fabricate, evaluate, and translate innovative delivery platforms to address multiple constraints that prevent medicines from working effectively and efficiently in patients. Constraints such as the non-discriminatory delivery of potent medicines, the potentially unsafe practice of off-label and off-licence use of medicines, and the poor acceptance of medicines among young patients and animals because of aversive taste and smell.
Lee Yong’s team is one of only a handful of academic groups globally who has proven capacity to take a problematic drug from formulation to preclinical evaluation and finally to taste acceptance and pharmacokinetic trials in children. Her team has developed three taste-masked platforms for formulating paediatric medicines, one of which is the patented chocolate-based delivery system (CDS) that has been successfully applied to midazolam and tramadol. The CDS platform has won the team the inaugural Byron Kakulas Medal in 2022. Lee Yong also works with WA hospital pharmacies to provide safe delivery of extemporaneously compounded medicines to very young patients. Aside from paediatric medicines, her team has patents under review for taste-masked medicinal products for the marine aquaculture industry and stable FGF-2 scaffolds for the treatment of chronic tympanic membrane perforation.
Dr Jacinta Johnson, PhD in Pharmacology, University Adelaide.
Dr. Jacinta Johnson is a credentialled Advanced Practice pharmacist with over 10 years of experience in hospital pharmacy practice. She currently leads a small team of clinician researchers, to conduct research focused upon medication safety, pharmacy practice, practitioner development.. She currently works across two settings as Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice at the University of South Australia, and as Senior Pharmacist, supporting development of research capacity and culture within the SA Pharmacy, the statewide public hospital pharmacy service.
Dr. Johnson has a passion for supporting life-long learning, and currently serves as the Chair for the Residency Advisory Group. In addition, Jacinta is also a National Board Director and immediate past Vice President of the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia and is a member of the SHPA Research Specialty Practice Stream Leadership Group.
Tom Simpson : Executive Director, Statewide Hospital Pharmacy Tasmania, and has held positions as Chair, Statewide Pharmacy Executive Committee, the Tasmanian Minister’s Health Council and the Pharmacy Board of Tasmania.
Tom is a member of the SHPA Leadership and Management Specialty Practice Leadership Committee and holds a conjoint position as Senior Clinical Lecturer with the University of Tasmania School of Pharmacy. Tom was awarded 2018 Tasmanian Pharmacist of the Year and the 2019 SHPA Medal of Merit, recognising outstanding contribution to pharmacy practice locally and nationally.
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