Ms Libby Hotham

I am a lecturer at the School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences and Program Director for the Bachelor of Pharmacy since mid 2005. I worked in the School in the early 1990s and returned in December 2002. I have worked at the National Centre for Education and Training in Addiction at Flinders University and taught for eleven years at TAFE in the western suburbs of Adelaide. My main teaching interest there was in the Alcohol and Other Drugs area. I am a registered pharmacist and have worked in the community pharmacy sector in Queensland and South Australia and at two public hospitals in Adelaide. I now enjoy the opportunity to educate the next generation of pharmacists.

• I teach in both Pharmacy Practice courses and in Pharmacotherapeutics courses. I also teach in Pharmacology and in our public health course, Health and Society. I give guest lectures within other Health Science programs within our Division.

The Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and Other Drugs (APSAD)

The Australasian Pharmaceutical Science Association (APSA)

The Alcohol and Drugs Council of Australia (ADCA)

I did my Bachelor of Pharmacy at University of Queensland and my Masters degree in Applied Science (Pharmacy) at this University. I am nearing completion of doctoral studies in the Pharmacology Discipline of the University of Adelaide. The research involves substance use and pregnant women and I am attached to the WHO Centre, a collaboration between the University and the Drug and Alcohol Services Services of South Australia.

• My other research interests include harm minimization initiatives within the pharmacy sector and the diagnosis of ADHD and use of psychostimulants.

Hotham E, Ali R, White J, Robinson J (2008), Pregnancy-related changes in tobacco, alcohol and cannabis use reported by antenatal patients at two public hospitals in South Australia, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 48: 248–254.

Le P, Hotham ED (2008), South Australian rural community pharmacists and the provision of methadone, buprenorphine and injecting equipment. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 16 (3), 149-154.

Hotham E, Gilbert A, Atkinson E (2006), A randomised-controlled pilot study with nicotine patches with pregnant women, Addictive Behaviors, 31(4):641-648.

Le P, Hotham E (2006), Exploring the dissonance between small business imperatives and public health policy: pharmacy and the provision of opioid pharmacotherapies and clean needles in rural settings, International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 14:63-70

Kokkinn, B. & Hotham, L. 2006, 'Complex roles: a discourse analysis of simulated interactions between students and tutors in final year pharmacy workshops', presented at the Fourth Interdisciplinary Conference,Communication, Medicine & Ethics, Cardiff University, UK, 29 June-1 July 2006.

Kokkinn B, Hotham E (2005),‘Improving oral communication in pharmacy education through interdisciplinary research’ Critiquing and reflecting: LAS profession and practice. Refereed Proceedings of the Language and Academic Skills in Higher Education Conference 2005. Academic Skills Learning Centre, The Australian National University ISBN : 0-9750899-1-9

Smith C, Martin K, Hotham E, Semple S, Bloustien G, Rao D (2005), Naturopaths practice behaviour: Provision and access to information on complementary and alternative medicines, BMC Complementary & Alternative Medicines, Jul 11; 5:15.

Hotham E, Gilbert A, Atkinson E (2005), Case studies of three pregnant smokers and their use of replacement therapy,Midwifery, 21:224-232

Hotham E, Roche A, Skinner N, Dollman W (2005), The general practitioner pharmacotherapy prescribing workforce: examining sustainability from a systems perspective, Drug and Alcohol Review, 24:393-400

Kokkinn, B. & Hotham, L 2005, 'Discourse anaylsis of simulated interactions in a final year pharmacy program', presented at the Third Interdisciplinary COMET-VELIM Conference, Sydney, June 30-July 2, 2005.

Hotham ED, Atkinson ER, Gilbert AL (2002), Focus groups with pregnant smokers: barriers to cessation, attitudes to nicotine patch use and perceptions of cessation counselling by care providers, Drug and Alcohool Review, 21 (2) : 163-168.

Roche AM, Hotham ED, Richmond RL (2002), The general practitioner's role in AOD issues: overcoming individual, professional and systemic barriers, Drug and Alcohol Review, 21 (3): 223-230.