Teaching

Undergraduate

  • Epidemiology and Pharmaco-Economics course in the Master of Pharmacy Program.
  • Bachelor of Medicine - clinical pharmacology and evidence-based-medicine program and Master of Pharmacy - pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacoeconomics; critical appraisal and evidence-based practice program.
  • Physiotherapy program
  • Bachelor of Medicine program - Public Health

Postgraduate

  • Postgraduate Pharmaco-Epidemiology Program
  • Drug and Alcohol post-grad course (MEDI6130 Basis of Drug/Alcohol Problems)

Service Commitments

State

  • Management Committee of the NSW CHeReL data linkage project
  • Area Quality Use of Medicines Committee which oversees development of medicines safety across the Hunter New England Health Service
  • Advisor to NSW Health on toxicology matters
  • NSW Therapeutic Assessment Group member
  • Advisory Committee of the Asthma Foundation of NSW Hunter Outreach project
  • Australian Lung Foundation
  • Steering Committee of Pharmacy Graduate Training Course, Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (NSW branch)

Federal

  • Prescribing Intervention Working Group of the National Prescribing Service and Pharmacy Reference Group
  • NHMRC expert lead - clinical guidelines working group
  • Commonwealth Department of Health – toxicology advice in major incidents
  • Workshops for the National Prescribing Service on evidence-based- medicine
  • Complementary Medicines Evaluation Committee, Commonwealth Department of Health

International

  • Technical Advisor to the Secretariat for the Expert Consultation on Essential Medicines for Children, World Health Organisation, Geneva
  • Short courses on pharmacoepidemiology/ pharmacoeconomics for the World Health Organisation.
  • Chair of the WHO (Geneva) Technical Development Group writing guidelines for the pharmacotherapy of opiate dependence
  • Consultant for WHO (occasionally AusAID) in mainly developing countries dealing with aspects of implementation of national medicines policies
  • Examiner for the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh