Dr Aoife Fleming is a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy School of Pharmacy, Director of the MPharm Programme, and Vice Head for Interprofessional Learning, College of Medicine and Health. She holds a joint appointment with the Mercy University Hospital as a research pharmacist since 2016. She graduated with a degree in Pharmacy from Trinity College Dublin in 2004 and was awarded a Trinity College Dublin Gold Medal. She completed a Masters in Hospital Pharmacy (Trinity College Dublin) in 2007 while working as a Pharmacist at Beaumont Hospital. She has extensive experience working the hospital and community pharmacy settings. Dr Fleming was awarded a Health Research Board PhD Scholarship in 2011 at the School of Pharmacy and School of Public Health, University College Cork. Her PhD investigated Antimicrobial Stewardship in Ireland with a focus on long-term care facilities. Antimicrobial stewardship involves optimising the prescribing and surveillance of antimicrobials, and developing interventions to support appropriate antimicrobial use. Aoife has published and collaborated in the area of antimicrobial stewardship and continues to conduct research and contribute to policy and practice in this area. In her current role, Aoife is the liaison Pharmacist between the School of Pharmacy UCC and the Pharmacy Department at the Mercy University Hospital whereby she provides research support to Pharmacists in hospital practice in the areas of antimicrobial stewardship and medication safety. Antimicrobial Stewardship and Patient experience of AMR and Sepsis: Following on from PhD research investigating antimicrobial stewardship in long term care facilities, Aoife continues to investigate opportunities for Antimicrobial Stewardship in hospital, long term care and primary care settings. This includes investigations of the impact of point of care test diagnostics and enhanced surveillance measures

My research interests are in the areas of antimicrobial stewardship; with a focus on the behavioral determinants influencing antimicrobial prescribing, and the impact of point-of-care test systems (e.g. CRP and procalcitonin). I am involved in Interprofessional Learning for Pharmacy students and I am conducting ongoing research in this area to enhance their experience of IPL. Other research interests include medication reconciliation, medication safety, penicillin allergy and its impact on antimicrobial stewardship and medicines optimisation in long term care facilities.

Aoife is MPharm Director and is involved in teaching on the undergraduate Pharmacy Masters programme (MPharm) and the Masters in Clinical Pharmacy at UCC. She has coordinated several modules at undergraduate level: PF3011 Professional Practice III, PF4013 Clinical Pharmacy Practice I PF6400 Clinical Pharmacy Practice II PF4010 Organisation and Management skills. and postgraduate level: PF6009 MSc Clinical Pharmacy Pharmacotherapy I. Her teaching interests include: - Vice Head for Interprofessional Learning: the development and facilitation of Interprofessional Learning sessions, including patient-facing, experiential-learning sessions. - IPL in clinical setting, patient-facing in the Mercy University Hospital between Pharmacy and Medical Students as a joint venture with the School of Medicine. - the development and facilitation of IPL sessions for Pharmacy and Dentistry students, UCC. - Antimicrobial stewardship and optimisation - Treatment of renal disease, prescribing in renal impairment - Respiratory conditions: COPD, Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis - Prescribing in pregnancy and breastfeeding - Safe prescribing, Medication Safety - Dispensing training for pharmacy students She holds a Certificate and Diploma in Teaching and Learning from University College Cork. She is a member of the Pharmacy Education Research Group, School of Pharmacy, UCC.