Saturday lunch: Poster Presentations
Saturday, August 3, 2024 |
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM |
Pyrmont Foyer |
Speakers
Ella Shearing
Pharmacist
Locumate.ai
27: Feedback Analysis: Identifying Areas for Locum Pharmacists' Professional Development
1:31 PM - 1:32 PMBiography
Ella is an early career pharmacist working full-time at a Sydney hospital and part-time within the marketing team at Locumate.ai. With over 10 years combined experience in community pharmacy, the pharmaceutical industry, and research, Ella is deeply committed to advancing the profession. Passionate about expanding the pharmacy knowledge base, she focuses on post-COVID opportunities for pharmacists and demographic trends in healthcare. Her dedication to meaningful research aims to improve pharmacists' and patients' lives alike, contributing to a dynamic future for pharmacy.
Ella Shearing
Pharmacist
Locumate.ai
28: Is Pay Linked to Performance? Trends of Locum Pharmacist Remuneration in Australia
1:33 PM - 1:34 PMBiography
Ella is an early career pharmacist working full-time at a Sydney hospital and part-time within the marketing team at Locumate.ai. With over 10 years combined experience in community pharmacy, the pharmaceutical industry, and research, Ella is deeply committed to advancing the profession. Passionate about expanding the pharmacy knowledge base, she focuses on post-COVID opportunities for pharmacists and demographic trends in healthcare. Her dedication to meaningful research aims to improve pharmacists' and patients' lives alike, contributing to a dynamic future for pharmacy.
Faith Yong
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
29: Australian community pharmacist professional identity in a video-reflexive ethnography study
1:35 PM - 1:36 PMBiography
Dr Faith R. Yong is a pharmacist researcher with a keen interest in improving the quality of care in health systems by addressing workforce challenges, professional identity issues, organisational and scope conflicts within and between professions. She is an experienced community pharmacist with years of clinical experience in different states in Australia, and is an administrator of the Consultant Pharmacists Australia group, which exists to foster workplace learning and clinical excellence in the accredited pharmacist space. She has taught pharmacy practice, social pharmacy, health management, safety and quality subjects in universities for the last six years. Her academic work has included mentoring and supervising pharmacy honours students and hospital pharmacists in medication safety research and audits, and collaborative research between multiple hospital pharmacy departments in South East Queensland. She currently works in general practice workforce research at UQ's Rural Clinical School, whilst collaborating in multiple research projects with UNSW, UQ School of Pharmacy, Griffith University, the Westmead Institute of Medical Research at the University of Sydney, and UQ's Academy of Medical Education in improving medical education for medical students, junior doctors, registrars and consultants through evidence-informed feedback interventions in metropolitan and regional hospitals for workplace learning. Faith's research interests include theoretically based qualitative and participatory action research to understand and improve healthcare work and practitioner wellbeing from a systems perspective.
Amy Ma
Pharmacy Student
30: Effectiveness of interventions designed to increase safe and appropriate medicine disposal: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
1:37 PM - 1:38 PMBiography
Amy Ma is a fourth-year Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours) student at The University of Sydney, who is interested in research on the quality use of medicines. Her current research focuses on promoting safe and appropriate disposal of unused and unwanted medicines in the community. This will be facilitated through the development of educational materials aimed at community pharmacists to increase their knowledge on safe disposal practices, and how to promote this in the community. Following the completion of her pharmacy degree, she aspires to commence her pharmacy internship at a hospital, continuing to promote medication safety.
Timothy Josh Tan
Pharmacy Student
University of Sydney
31: Predictors of Hospitalisation and Mortality in People with Dementia using Antipsychotics: A Systematic Review
1:39 PM - 1:40 PMBiography
Timothy Josh Tan is a fourth-year student, who is studying a Bachelor of Pharmacy (Hons) at the University of Sydney. His current research focuses on the antipsychotic use in people living with dementia, aiming to inform the development of future clinical tools. He hopes to make a meaningful contribution, through his research, for a more comprehensive understanding of dementia, whilst also advancing treatment guidelines to both support the prescriber and benefit the person living with dementia. After completing his degree, he aims to complete his internship in a hospital setting and make a positive impact in healthcare.
Prof Suzanne Nielsen
Professor/Deputy Director (MARC)
Monash University
32: Increasing the safe use of opioids through the development and dissemination of an Opioid Safety Toolkit
1:41 PM - 1:42 PMBiography
Professor Suzanne Nielsen is the Deputy Director of the Monash Addiction Research Centre (Monash University). She has published extensively on identification and treatment of substance related problems, with a focus on both prescription and illicit opioid dependence treatment and overdose prevention. She has been a registered pharmacist for over 20 years, with clinical experience in Australia and the United Kingdom working in specialist and community drug treatment settings.
Prof Suzanne Nielsen
Professor/Deputy Director (MARC)
Monash University
33: An e-Delphi study to develop best-practices for opioid safety in community pharmacy settings
1:43 PM - 1:44 PMBiography
Professor Suzanne Nielsen is the Deputy Director of the Monash Addiction Research Centre (Monash University). She has published extensively on identification and treatment of substance related problems, with a focus on both prescription and illicit opioid dependence treatment and overdose prevention. She has been a registered pharmacist for over 20 years, with clinical experience in Australia and the United Kingdom working in specialist and community drug treatment settings.
Bonnie Pearson
4th Year Pharmacy Honours Student
University of New England
34: An exploration of credentialed pharmacists’ confidence in recommending antidepressant deprescribing.
1:45 PM - 1:46 PMBiography
Registered Nurse working in Primary Health Care and 4th year Pharmacy Honours Student at UNE. Passionate about chronic disease management. Additional training completed in Asthma Education and the National Immunisation Program.
Adeline Tan
Project Manager - Consulting
PSA
35: Exploring a collaborative service model for people with Intellectual Disability (PwID) involving pharmacists working within the NDIS behaviour support framework
1:47 PM - 1:48 PMBiography
Adeline Tan is currently a senior pharmacist at the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia. She is also a credentialed pharmacist with over 10 years’ experience delivering medication-related services to people with intellectual disability. She is a passionate advocate for pharmacy and fulfilling pharmacists’ full scope of practice to achieve better healthcare and patient outcomes. She has also led projects through government and Primary Health Networks involving innovative approaches of integrating pharmacists in multidisciplinary teams such as palliative care service models, pharmacists in general practice and residential aged care
A/Prof Tin Fei Sim
Associate Professor
Curtin University
36: Video-assisted education for patients prescribed oral anticoagulants: a prospective, non-randomised, before-and-after study
1:49 PM - 1:50 PMBiography
A/Prof Fei Sim is an Associate Professor in the Curtin Medical School at Curtin University. Fei holds a Doctoral degree in Pharmacy, and is a practising pharmacist. Dr Fei Sim is the National President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) Board. Fei is an appointed member of the Federal Government's National Women's Health Advisory Council, a member on the Unleashing the Potential of Health Workforce Review Expert Advisory Committee and the Strengthening Medicare Implementation Oversight Committee. She is a Fellow of UK Higher Education Academy, a Fellow of PSA, and a Graduate Member of Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Catherine Laird
PhD Candidate
University Of Technology Sydney
37: Feasibility of pharmacists assessing fracture risk in aged care residents
1:51 PM - 1:52 PMBiography
Catherine is an experienced clinical pharmacist and credentialled diabetes educator. Throughout her career, Catherine has worked in a mix of community, aged care and general practice, and has developed a strong passion for improving the quality use of medicines for endocrinology conditions, particularly in the aged care setting. This passion has led her to undertaking a PhD with her research seeking to improve osteoporosis management for aged care residents through optimising the input of pharmacists.
Julia Weber
PhD Student Switzerland
University of Basel, Switzerland
38: Teaching non-technical skills in pharmacy education via simulation – protocol of a scoping review
1:52 PM - 1:53 PMBiography
Ms Julia Weber is an early career pharmacist with experience as a community pharmacist in Switzerland. She is undertaking a PhD through the University of Basel and the University of Western Australia to investigate how simulation education can be used to teach the many non-technical skills pharmacists require to practice effectively.
