Our people at UMORE are at the core of our successful delivery of clinical pharmacy research in this highly competitive arena. We are proud of our team and the contributions they offer.
Our team has a strong group of research fellows and we have a broad range of skills. We also foster a mentor-driven atmosphere for our research higher degree students.
BPharm (Hons) PhD MPS
Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice and Senior Research Fellow
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| Telephone | +61 3 6226 2195 |
| Fax | +61 3 6226 2870 |
| Location | Hobart Campus, Pharmacy Building, 4007 |
| Luke.Bereznicki@utas.edu.au |
Luke graduated in 2002 from the Tasmanian School of Pharmacy with first class honours. Luke was an inaugural recipient of a prestigious National Institute of Clinical Studies (NICS) PhD Scholarship in 2003. His PhD research program centred on improving the management of anticoagulants in the community through the use of innovative patient-focussed strategies. However, another focus for Luke’s studies was the implementation of evidence-based research in the hospital setting.
Luke has been recognised for his pioneering work and has received the following awards:
Luke currently serves as a Vice President of the Tasmanian Branch of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia.
BAppPsych(Hons), PhD
Senior Research Fellow - Cancer Council Tasmania Post Doctoral Research Fellow
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| Telephone | +61 3 6226 8536 |
| Fax | +61 3 6226 2870 |
| Location | Hobart Campus, Pharmacy Building, 4010 |
| Stuart.Ferguson@utas.edu.au |
Stuart’s primary research interest is the process of smoking cessation, in particular the situational antecedents of smoking lapses. To explore these topics Stuart makes use of a wide range of research methodologies in his research, ranging from large-scale national surveys through to intensive randomised clinical trials using state-of-the-art real-time data collection methods such as ecological momentary assessment.
In addition to working at the School of Pharmacy, Stuart is an honorary research fellow at both the University of Tasmania"s Menzies Research Institute and at the School of Psychology. He also maintains active collaborations with a number of international researcher groups.
Stuart completed his undergraduate degree in Australia before receiving his PhD in Psychology from the University of Otago (Dunedin, New Zealand). After completing his PhD, Stuart moved to the USA to work as a post-doctoral fellow – and later a researcher – in the Smoking Research Group at the University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA, USA). During his six years in the USA Stuart also worked as a research scientist at Pinney Associates, specialising in issues relating to smoking cessation and drug dependence.
BPharm (Hons) PhD MBA FSHP FACPP FAIPM FPS
Professor of Pharmacy, Head of UMORE and the Tasmanian School of Pharmacy
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| Telephone | +61 3 6226 1080 |
| Fax | +61 3 6226 7627 |
| Location | Hobart Campus, Pharmacy Building |
| G.Peterson@utas.edu.au |
Greg leads the vibrant and expanding research unit at UMORE. His research interests centre on improving the use of medicines (optimising the safety and cost-effectiveness of medication usage) and he has led many community and hospital projects directed at improving the use of medications and patient outcomes.
Greg has a background in community, hospital and academic pharmacy. He has international standing in the area of programs to promote the safe and rational use of medications. He is Sigma Pharmaceuticals’ sole Medical Advisor, and continues to practise in community pharmacy. He was awarded a personal Chair in 2000, and was the first Chair appointed in Pharmacy at the University. Greg sits on two Advisory Panels for the National Prescribing Service.
Greg has published more than 120 research papers in refereed international and national journals, plus more than 120 professional publications and more than 200 scientific presentations at national and international conferences. Greg was awarded the 2007 PSA Pharmacist of the Year.
BComp (Hons) PhD
Research Fellow
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| Telephone | +61 3 6226 7396 |
| Fax | +61 3 6226 7627 |
| Location | Hobart Campus, Pharmacy Building, 3011 |
| Ivan.Bindoff@utas.edu.au |
Ivan’s interests include all fields of artificial intelligence (particularly expert or knowledge-based systems and machine learning/data mining), software development and design, web-based applications development, data management and analysis, education, and some areas of economic analysis.
Ivan began working with UMORE in late 2009, providing extensive data management, manipulation, and analysis for several large UMORE projects. Through these projects he gained substantial experience in the area of data analysis, as well as economic analysis – including uncertainty analysis and non-parametric bootstrapping.
Ivan graduated from the University of Tasmania with a Bachelors Degree in Computing in 2004, and in 2005 he received first class Honours and was placed on the Dean's Role of Excellence. His Honours work concerned the application of artificial intelligence to the task of supporting pharmacists performing medication reviews. Ivan’s PhD continued and extended this work and he graduated in 2010.
BPharm(Hons) PhD
Lecturer in Pharmacological Sciences
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| Telephone | +61 3 6226 2191 |
| Fax | +61 3 6226 2870 |
| Location | Hobart Campus, Pharmacy Building, 4006 |
| Bonnie.Bereznicki@utas.edu.au |
Bonnie graduated from the Tasmanian School of Pharmacy in 2002. Since that time, she worked as a locum pharmacist in many pharmacies located in Tasmania and Queensland. Bonnie returned to the School of Pharmacy in 2007 to complete her Honours and PhD. Bonnie’s PhD thesis was titled ‘Improving the management of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.’
Dr Bereznicki has developed a strong record conducting respiratory research in the community pharmacy setting and made a significant contribution to Australian pharmacy practice research. Dr Bereznicki’s projects have been of considerable public benefit improving the quality of life for patients with airways diseases as well as advancing the profession of pharmacy and developing new roles for pharmacists.
Dr Bereznicki’s research interests have since expanded to include paediatric asthma, and improving the quality use of medications in a number of therapeutic areas. She supervises a number of Honours students within the School. Bonnie closely collaborates with the Asthma Foundation of Tasmania, and she is a member of their Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee. Bonnie is also a part-time lecturer in Pharmacology.
BPharm(Hons) GradDipComp
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| Telephone | +61 3 6226 1030 |
| Fax | +61 3 6226 7627 |
| Location | Hobart Campus, Pharmacy Building, 3012 |
| Peter.Gee@utas.edu.au |
Peter is responsible for the successful development and implementation of IT in a number of UMORE projects.
He graduated from the School of Pharmacy, University of Tasmania with First Class honours in 1993. Since then he has worked in both hospital and community pharmacy. Peter lived in England for four years, where he worked as a hospital pharmacist in a number of clinical specialties. He has completed a Graduate Diploma of Computing, and still practices in community pharmacy
BPharm(Hons)
Clinical Research Pharmacist
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| Telephone | +61 3 6226 1032 |
| Fax | +61 3 6226 7627 |
| Location | Hobart Campus, Pharmacy Building, 3014 |
| Rose.McShane@utas.edu.au |
Rose has been in her current role at UMORE since 2007, and at the same time is active as a locum pharmacist around Hobart.
She graduated from the University of Tasmania in 2001, before undertaking her traineeship at Royal Melbourne Hospital. She spent 12 months working in the sterile and oncology suite at Cabrini Hospital before returning to Tasmania to work at the Royal Hobart Hospital. This was followed by her first stint working at UMORE, where she undertook a large role in the Med-eSupport project and completed her honours thesis on the economic impact of this project. Rose then spent nine months in the UK working at St. George’s Hospital, Tooting as the Cardiothoracic Surgery Senior Pharmacist.
BPharm(Hons) MPS MSHP
PhD candidate
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| Telephone | +61 3 6226 1024 |
| Fax | +61 3 6226 7627 |
| Location | Hobart Campus, Pharmacy Building, 3009 |
| Leanne.Chalmers@utas.edu.au |
Leanne’s PhD thesis is titled “The role of community pharmacy in post hospital management of patients initiated on warfarin”.
Leanne began her PhD in 2008 and her areas of interest include the provision of the quality medication-related services at the continuum of care, especially for cardiology patients, and pharmacy education.
After graduating from Curtin University of Technology with first class Honours in 1997, Leanne completed her pre-registration training at Fremantle Hospital and Health Service, Western Australia, as the 1998 Pharmacy Trainee of the Year. She continued to practice there as a pharmacist until a three year sojourn in the UK between 2001 and 2003.
In 2004, she returned to Western Australia to assume two part-time roles – as a Lecturer in Pharmacotherapy at the School of Pharmacy at Curtin University, and a Clinical Pharmacist in cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery at Fremantle Hospital. During this time she was involved in the supervision of a number of honours and masters students, as well as a number of small quality improvement projects and drug utilisation reviews.
BPharm MSc PostGradDiploma MRPharmS
Lecturer in Therapeutics
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| Telephone | +61 3 6226 1077 |
| Fax | +61 3 6226 7627 |
| Location | Hobart Campus, Pharmacy Building |
| Angus.Thompson@utas.edu.au |
Angus moved from the UK to Tasmania with his family and joined UTAS in mid-2008. He teaches and co-ordinates third year Therapeutics, as well as teaching fourth year Therapeutics and both third and fourth Year Pharmacy Practice practical classes.
Angus graduated from the School of Pharmacy at Bath University in the UK in 1989 and undertook pre-registration training in the South Warwickshire Hospitals. He then worked as a pharmacist at Dorset County Hospital while completing his Master of Science in Clinical Pharmacy at Portsmouth University with a thesis looking at Antimicrobial Prescribing. In 1993 he worked as pharmacy manager at the BMI Droitwich Private Hospital, where he became involved in oncology and was a member of the Drug Purchasing Group for BMI.
In 1999 he was appointed Pharmaceutical Advisor to South Somerset Primary Care Group/Trust (PCT), providing advice on evidence-based and cost-effective prescribing to GPs. During this time he completed his Prescribing Sciences diploma at Liverpool University. In 2002, he moved into PCT work, project management, pharmaceutical writing, community pharmacy locums, and education and training for nurses, GP trainees and pharmaceutical industry personnel.
Angus’s publications have appeared in the Internal Medicine Journal and the Australian Pharmacist; as well as several UK journals including Prescriber, Future Prescriber, The Pharmaceutical Journal, Pharmacy Professional and Independent Nurse.
BPharm(Hons) AACPA
Clinical Research Pharmacist
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| Telephone | +61 3 6226 1032 |
| Fax | +61 3 6226 7627 |
| Location | Hobart Campus, Pharmacy Building |
| Anna.Tompson@utas.edu.au |
Anna graduated with a Bachelor of Pharmacy in 2001 from the University of Tasmania. She then spent a year in a local community pharmacy completing the Graduate Accreditation Program. After successfully gaining full registration, she spent some time exploring different areas of pharmacy, including a diverse range of community settings and hospital pharmacy.
At the end of 2003, she commenced her honours project, which was funded by the Australian Council for Safety and Quality in Health Care’s Medication Safety Innovation Awards Program. This project aimed to improve medication management after hospital discharge, through patient education and improved transfer of medication information. She then began work on the Med-e-Support Project, funded by the Pharmacy Guild of Australia and the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. Anna then worked as the Tasmania Project Manager for the National Prescribing Service’s Drug Use Evaluation Project until 2009.
BPharm, MSc, GradDipCommPracPharm, MPS
Lecturer in Pharmacy Residency and PhD candidate
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| Telephone | +61 3 6226 1966 |
| Fax | +61 3 6226 7627 |
| Location | Hobart Campus, Pharmacy Building |
| Juanita.Westbury@utas.edu.au |
Juanita’s PhD thesis title is "Roles for Pharmacists in improving the Quality Use of Medicines to treat behavioural disturbance in dementia".
After graduating with a Pharmacy degree from the University of Sydney and completing her pre-registration year at Westmead Hospital, Juanita was commissioned as a pharmaceutical officer in the RAAF. For the next six years she worked as the pharmacist in the Base Medical Flights at Wagga Wagga, Newcastle and Adelaide.
She left the Air Force to work in community pharmacy in the UK for three years. Upon her return to Australia, she was involved in the Quality Use of Medicines Domiciliary Medication Management Review Trial, most elements of which were incorporated into the current Home Medications Review model funded by the Federal Government. In the trial, Juanita worked as a GP division liaison officer and completed the first 50 funded domiciliary medication reviews. This was followed by a period in the UK working as an NHS pharmacist advisor, which involved working in GP surgeries and on initiatives to promote evidence-based prescribing. During this period, Juanita completed a Master of Science on compliance/concordance in the older age group at the Department of Medicines Management at Keele University.
BPharm(Hons)
Clinical Research Pharmacist and PhD candidate
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| Telephone | +61 3 6226 1083 |
| Fax | +61 3 6226 7627 |
| Location | Hobart Campus, Pharmacy Building, 3007 |
| Corrine.Mirkazmi@utas.edu.au |
Corinne’s PhD thesis is titled “Thromboprophylaxis following arthroplasty”.
Corinne’s areas of interest include vitamin B12 deficiency and the provision of medications to prevent blood clots following total hip and knee replacement surgeries.
After graduating from the University of Tasmania with first class Honours in 2007, Corinne completed her pre-registration training at the Royal Hobart Hospital working as a clinical pharmacist in the areas of cardiothoracic surgery, gastroenterology, respiratory, acute stroke and general medicine. She continued to practice there as a Clinical Pharmacist until July 2009, when she enrolled in a PhD program at the School of Pharmacy.
Corinne has many years of experience in community pharmacy and continues to work as a community pharmacist in several pharmacies around Hobart.
BA, BComm, MBA
Quality Assurance and Marketing Officer
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| Telephone | +61 3 6226 2195 |
| Fax | +61 3 6226 7627 |
| Location | Hobart Campus, Pharmacy Building |
| Alice.Burns@utas.edu.au |
Alice commenced work at the School of Pharmacy and UMORE in mid-2009. Her role encompasses quality and marketing initiatives.
Alice graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2004. She returned to Tasmania shortly afterwards and commenced work at the Australian Maritime College. This work exposed her to a broad range of higher education policy, administration and marketing issues. Her interests lie in business and market research, and their ties to strategy development and quality improvement. She is pursuing these interests through further study, and is in the final stages of obtaining a Master of Business Administration.