Academic staff

I’m a paediatric pharmacist with over 30 years’ experience in primary, secondary and tertiary care across London. During this time, I have held various senior roles at Whipps Cross University Hospital and at the Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust. In addition, I’ve been a guest lecturer on the LSBU Non-Medical Prescribing (NMP) course since its inception in 2003, subsequently joining the NMP academic team in 2016. I am now Associate Professor Pharmacotherapeutics, teaching on the adult and paediatric NMP modules. As well as contributing to the overall teaching programme, I'm responsible for preparing and co-ordinating the pharmacology exam.

I have continued to maintain links with Bart’s Health NHS Trust and cover occasional shifts for the paediatric pharmacy team. Other external links include the Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacists Group (NPPG), contributing to their education, training and research agendas, and set up the NPPG Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity Sub-group.

Apart from the NPPG, I have worked with National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) as a member of the GPhC Standard Setting Panel. This panel is responsible for standardising the pharmacist pre-registration exam in the UK. More recently I became a Director at the UK Clinical Pharmacy Association.

EXTERNAL APPOINTMENTS

• Committee member – Neonatal & Paediatric Pharmacists Group

• Honorary Lecturer – University College London School of Pharmacy

• Senior Paediatric Pharmacist, Bank Staff – Barts Health NHS Trust

• Standard Setting Panel member – General Pharmaceutical Council

• Director, Education Support – UK Clinical Pharmacists Association

• Advisor to NICE for Evidence Summaries of Unlicensed and Off-

label Medicines (EUSOM)

• Clinical Professional Advisor to Care Quality Commission

• Chair – London Neonatal and paediatric Pharmacists Group

• Lead Pharmacist (Women & Children / Medicines Information) -

Barts Health (2000-2016)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• Master’s research thesis – Continuing Education: Pharmacists’

Views and Perspectives – University College London School of

Pharmacy

• Chaired the NPPG 2020 Grant Adjudicating Panel for the biannual

NPPG research award of £50,00

• Member of the NPPG Research and Publications sub-group, which

involves reviewing and adjudication abstracts, posters and

presentations for the annual NPPG conference

• Clinical & educational supervisor for MSc projects at the

University College London School of Pharmacy and London South

Bank University:

• Can dose-banding help to reduce prescribing errors in a

paediatric A&E?

• Medication errors in Critical Care – systematic review

• MSc Dissertation supervisor

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Pharmacy Practice, Primary and Secondary Care

• Applied Pharmacology and Therapeutics

• Paediatrics including neonatology

• Complexities of medicines reconciliation, renal and hepatic

dosage adjustments, management and peer mentoring

• Medicines management, critical appraisal & medicines evaluation,

medicines information and guideline creation & publication