I am a Professor of Clinical Pharmacy at the School of Pharmacy, University College Cork (UCC) and Head of Discipline. I served as Vice Dean of the School from January 2021- May 2026. I bring a wealth of clinical pharmacy experience to my current academic research and teaching roles from the community, hospital, and industry sectors. I have an established and internationally recognised academic career in Clinical Pharmacy Practice with an extensive research profile in the areas of patient access and patient acceptability of medicines to identify patient needs of the future. 

I have a continuous and upward trajectory of research funding with a grant capture of over €5 million and a total of 122 high quality peer reviewed publications to date. I am a highly accomplished academic in the areas of learning and teaching both within and outside my discipline and have been instrumental in spearheading the development of interprofessional learning. I have significant leadership experience with a commitment and active role in developing and advancing the discipline and profession of pharmacy in the School of Pharmacy since 2005. Examples of my leadership experience include Principal Investigator on funded studies; Mentoring early career researchers and academics; Vice Dean of School of Pharmacy, successful implementation of the summative UCC OSCE examination since 2021 and successful accreditation of the fully integrated MPharm curriculum by the PSI in 2020.  

Additional accomplishments in my career to date include Scholarship award from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain in 1992; President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2018, with a further nomination in 2022 and a student nomination in 2023; Ministerial appointment to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland in 2018; appointed visiting Senior Researcher at the Pharmaceutical Care Research Group, University of Basel, Switzerland (2022). I am committed to a vision for advancing Clinical Pharmacy Practice in research and learning/teaching. 

School:

1.      Head of Clinical Pharmacy Practice (Acting from Jan 2021- July 2023) and promotion in August 2023 to Head.

2.      Vice Dean of School (Jan 2021-May 2026)

3.      Member of School of Pharmacy Executive Board: (Jan 2021-present)

4.      Chair of the School of Pharmacy Pre-Registration Experiential Learning Working Group (2019-2024) for summative OSCE.

5.      Member of School of Pharmacy Board (Oct 2005-present)

6.      Member of Teaching and Curriculum Committee of School of Pharmacy (Nov 2005-2019)
Chair: November 2019- August 2021

7.      Member of Management Committee of the MSc Clinical Pharmacy (2008-present)

8.      Member of Student Experience Committee (Jan 2022-June 2025)

College:

1.      Member of College Teaching and Learning Curriculum Development Committee

(Nov 2019-Aug 2021)

2.      Member of COMH Executive Committee (to delegate for Prof B Griffin as required) since Jan 2021-present.

University:

1.      Member of the Fitness to Practice Working Group (July 2024- Feb 2026)

2.      Member of Academic Council August 2023- present

3.      Member of Lecturer Promotion and Establishment Board, University College Cork

Dec 2018- Jan 2023.

4.      Member of the Academic Titles Working Group from April-Nov 2021.

5.       Member of Examination Appeals Committee Jan 2011-2012.

Mercy University Hospital

1.      Member of the Drugs and Therapeutics Committee of the Mercy University Hospital
Jan 2006- Jan 2012

Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI)

1.       Vice President of Council of the PSI (2025-present)

2.       Member of the Special Purposes Committee of the PSI (2025-present)

3.       Member of the Council of the PSI by Ministerial Appointment (2023-2027)

4.       Member of the Regulatory and Professional Policy Committee of the PSI (2023-present)

5.       Member of the Core Competency Framework (CCF) Review and Development: Steering Group: Oct 2021-Dec 2022.

6.       Member of the Baseline Study of Practice of Pharmacy of the PSI: Steering Group
2009-2011.

7.       Member of the Pharmacy Education Accreditation Reviews (PEARS) of the PSI
2008-2010.

Member of the Standards and Practice Committee of the PSI
2008-2009.

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI)

1.      Member of the Board from Sept 2018-Jan 2021.

2.      Member of the Audit and Risk Committee NMBI from Sept. 2019-Jan 2021.

3.      Member of the Education Training and Standards Committee NMBI from Sept 2018- Jan 2021.

4.      Member of the Fitness to Practice Committee NMBI from Sept 2018- Jan 2021
and in this time I acted as Chair of Fitness to Practice panels (n=3)

Conference Organisation

·         International Social Pharmacy Workshop (ISPW) : UCC 28^th June -Thursday 2^nd July 2026) Conference Co-Chair with Dr M O’Driscoll (n=150 international attendees)

·         EuroDURG Conference 2025: Uppsala Sweden July 01-04 2025. Bridging data, policy and patients; Advances in Drug Utilization Research  (n=340 international attendees). Member of the Scientific Committee of EuroDURG and representative for Ireland.

·         All Island Medication Safety Network Conference 2024: Held on the 29^th November 2024. The Printworks, Dublin Castle.

·         PRIMM Conference 2024: Member of the Scientific Committee of Manchester, UK.

·         Irish Medication Safety Network Conference 2023:

Professor Stephen Byrne and I led the organisation of this conference in UCC in November of 2023. This is a strategically important conference as it brings together the key opinion leaders in Hospital Pharmacy. This conference has historically attracted over 150 delegates and we are in contact with the Department of Health to ensure that UCC Alumnus and Tánaiste Micheál Martin will open this meeting on Friday 24^th November 2023.

·         Prescribing Research in Medication Management (PRIMM) Organising Committee
from 2020- present. Upcoming conference 24^th March 2023.