School of Biomedical Sciences

After graduation from my BSc Pharmacy, I registered as a pharmacist in the United Kingdom and worked first in a large District General Hospital.  After 3 years I had the opportunity to move to the Birmingham Children’s Hospital, a tertiary level specialist unit serving a population of 14 million.  Working as part of the multi-disciplinary nutrition support team, specialising in parenteral nutrition (PN), I became increasingly involved in research.  I gained my Master’s from the University of Birmingham for a thesis on computer applications in nutrition support, which included the development of two software suites, one for pharmacy preparation of PN and one for the bedside prescribing.  Working as clinical pharmacist to the intensive care unit, I became increasingly interested in the behaviour of medicines in parenteral fluid systems and this led to interest in maintaining circulatory access, particulate contamination in infusion fluids and the use of intravenous in-line filtration.  I submitted my PhD based upon work looking at the effects of dissolved oxygen in PN solutions.  In 1994 I took my first academic appointment at the University of Otago in Dunedin, NZ, where I continued to work as a clinical pharmacist working in pain management and palliative care. 

Based upon my experience in multi-disciplinary healthcare teams I was invited in 2005 to take Australia’s foundation Chair of Rural and Remote Pharmacy.  A new and different challenge but one which I believe like most other problems in healthcare, will always be better when health professionals work together in teams.

Membership of Organisations:

• Charles Sturt University Centre for Inland Health
• National Rural Health Alliance
• Services to Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health (SARRAH)
• NSW Institute for Rural Clinical Services and Teaching
• Australasian Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (Council Member)
• British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
• European Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition

Evidence-Based Guideline Groups

ESPEN/ESPGHAN pan-European guidelines for paediatric parenteral nutrition
Koletzko, B., Goulet, O., Hunt, J., Krohn, K., Shamir, R. for the Parenteral Nutrition Guidelines Working Group.  Guidelines on Paediatric Parenteral Nutrition of the European Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) and the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN), supported by the European Society of Paediatric Research (ESPR).  Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutirition 2005:41:S1-S87

NZ Guidelines for the management of primary nocturnal enuresis
Tsang, B., McAlpine, C., Brown, J., Ball. P.A., Dickens, K., Graham, D., Colquhoun, G., Mark, S., Reid, S., Lane, K., McKenzie-Pollock, S., Brown, R., Boulton, P., Frost, P., Moate, K., Taipari, G., Casey, V.   Best Practice Evidence Based Guideline for the Treatment of Nocturnal Enuresis (Bedwetting).  Paediatric Society of New Zealand, Wellington.  Published  at www.nzgg.org.nz November 2005

AuSPEN Australia/New Zealand guidelines for home parenteral nutrition
Gillanders L, Angstmann, K, Ball, P.A. Chapman-Kiddell, C, Hardy, G.,Hope, J, Smith, R., Strauss, B., Russell, AuSPEN clinical practice guideline for home parenteral nutrition patients in Australia and New Zealand Nutrition, 2008;24(10):998-1012

 

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Research and Teaching Interests

• Rural and Remote Practice
• Multidisciplinary Healthcare Solutions
• Cost Effectiveness of Pharmacy Cognitive Services
• Parenteral Therapy
• Parenteral Nutrition

 

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