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Professor Andrew Gilbert

Position: Project Director
Division/Portfolio: Division of Health Sciences
School/Unit: School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences
Campus: City East Campus
Office: R3-28
Telephone: +61 8 830 22373
Fax: +61 8 830 21209
Email: Andrew_dot_Gilbert_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au
URL for Business Card: http://people.unisa.edu.au/Andrew.Gilbert


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Dr. Andrew Gilbert is: Professor; Director of The Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences University of South Australia Adelaide 5000 South Australia



Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre

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Teaching interests

  • Pharmacy Practice Research; practice development and practice change
  • Medicines Policy; Quality Use of Medicines and Medicines Safety.
  • Pharmacoepidemiology
  • Public Health
  • Health Psychology

I teach the following courses

COMM 1007Communication in Health 100
PHAR 3002Applied Pharmacotherapeutics 300
PHAR 3003Applied Pharmacotherapeutics 301
PHAR 4005Applied Pharmacotherapeutics 400
PHAR 4006Applied Pharmacotherapeutics 401
PHAR 4001Pharmacy Elective 400
PHAR 4002Pharmacy Elective 401
PHAR 4003Pharmacy Honours Thesis 400
PHAR 4004Pharmacy Honours Thesis 401


Professional associations

The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia

The Pharmacy Guild of Australia

The Australasian Pharmaceutical Sciences Assosication

Federation Internationale Pharmaceutic

International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology

Soth Australian Pharmacy Board


Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy (University of Adelaide)

Diploma of Applied Psychology (University of Adelaide)

Bachelor of Pharmacy (University of Adelaide)


Research interests

  • Development, implementation and evaluation of medicines policy
  • Practice-based research; implementation and evaluation of new practices
  • Continuing professional education
  • Public health research
  • Pharmacoepidemiology

Research publications

E. Roughead, A L Gilbert, D Cosh, J Cheek.Crushing or altering Medications: what’s happening in residential aged care facilities? Australasian Journal on Ageing Vol 21, No 3 Sept 2002

Andrew L Gilbert, Elizabeth Roughead, Kathy Mott , John Barrett Collaborative medication management services: improving patient care. MJA Vol 177 19 August 2002

E Hotham, A L Gilbert. Focus Groups with pregnant smokers: barriers to cessation, attitudes to nicotine patch use and perceptions of cessation counselling by care providers. Drug and Alcohol Review (2002) 21, 163-168

Karen Grimmer, Saravana Kumar,Andrew Gilbert, Steve Milanese. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) Physiotherapists’ use, knowledge and attitudes. Australian Journal of Physiotherapy 2002 Vol 28.

Libby Roughead, Andrew Gilbert. Medication Misadventure. Australian Pharmacist

Andrew Gilbert, Libby Roughead, Lloyd Sansom. I’ve missed a dose; what should I do? Australian Prescriber Vol 25 No 1 2002


Expertise for Media Contact

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Pharmacy, Psychology

  • Medicines Policy
  • Medication use in the elderly
  • Pharmacy "issues"

Community Service

Organisation Name:   Commonwealth Dept Health and Ageing
Section:   Pharmaceutical Health and Rational Use of Medicine
Type of Organisation:   Government Board or committee
Level of involvement:   Committee Member
Year from:   1991
Year to:   2003




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