International network for Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice Research

International Network for Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice Research

Welcome to our International Network for Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice Research, which proudly includes members from numerous European countries, as well as Australia and the USA. Our network spans Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Northern Ireland, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Germany, with one or more clinical sites participating from each country.

Monthly Webinars

We convene on the first Wednesday of each month for a 45-minute presentation and discussion session, held from 11:15 to 12:00 UTC. These meetings focus on research that is either planned or currently being conducted at our member sites. The presentations rotate among the members.
Objective: To provide updates and facilitate discussions on global research projects and application of research within clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice.

Webinar Setup

12:15 – 12:20: Welcome and introduction of today's presenter.

12:20 – 12:40: Presentation of a planned, ongoing, or completed research project.

12:40 – 12:55: Questions and discussion session.

12:55 – 1:00: Updates on relevant news for participants, including conferences, meetings, articles, achievements, and other noteworthy information.

Closing: Farewell and see you next month!

Who Can Join?

We invite researchers, clinicians, master students, PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and anyone interested in the fields of clinical pharmacy, pharmacy practice, or pharmacoepidemiology to join us. If you are interested in participating or would like to receive an invitation, please contact Beate Garcia at beate.garcia@uit.no.

We look forward to your involvement in our vibrant and collaborative community!

Upcoming and Previous Webinars

	Time	Responsible presenting organization	Presenter	Title
2025	January	Umeå University	Sofia Swan	Older people’s views on a pharmacist-led follow-up programme after discharge from hospital»
	February	Trinity University, Ireland	Renata Vesela	From The Shire to Citations: The Quest for a Systematic Review
	March	University of Southern Denmark, DK	Sophi Klasing	Continuing risks in medication safety during hospital-to-home-transitions - efforts, shortcomings and approaches according to German pharmacists
	April	Uppsala University, Sweden	Elin Lehnbom and Karin Svendsborg	AI in pharmacy: Development and evaluation of ChatGPT models for communication training
	May	Danish hospital Pharmacy Reserach Group	Nanna Elman Andersen	“Oral laxatives after hip fracture surgery: A randomised controlled trial”.
	June	Sidney University, Australia	Maneesha Godakanda Arachchige	Enhancing Geriatric Medication Management: Development of a Decision Support Tool for Healthcare Providers to Ensure Appropriate Prescribing in Sri Lankan Older Adults
	September	Iceland University, Iceland	Freyja Jónsdóttir	The dilemma of delirium and medication use: clinical pharmacy, a missing piece of the puzzle?
	October	Koupio University	Miikka Kivioja	AI-based prediction and prevention of drug adverse effects by real world data: focus on anticoagulation therapy
	November	Copenhagen University, Denmark	Susanne Kae and Sara Sommer Holst	New program theory in pharmacist-led medication reviews in general practice
	December	UiT the Arctic University of Norway	Beate Garcia

	Time	Responsible presenting organization	Presenter	Title
2024	January	UiT the Arctic University of Norway	Beate Garcia	Experiences, learning and outcomes of the «Pharmacists in emergency departments» project (2019 – 2024)
	February	Sidney University, Australia	Khaled Adie	Tools for evaluating medication safety data from incident reporting
	March	Maastricht University Medical Center,The Netherlands	Fatma Karapinar	Recognizing, mitigating and preventing prescribing cascades in patients
	April	Utrecht University, The Netherlands	Daniala Weir	Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis to Address Adverse Drug Events Across the Continuum of Care
	June	University of Oslo, Norway	Malin Syversen	“Medication discrepancies after hospital discharge in patients with multiple long-term conditions”
	September	MOIC, Northern Ireland	Nicola Goodfellow	SHAPES - medicine control and optimisation
	October	Pharmacon, DK	Bjarke Abrahamsen	Status re-prescribing in Danish Community Pharmacies
	November	Linnaeus University, Sweden	Lina Hellstrøm	Exploring Managers', Employees', and Pharmacists' Experiences of Clinical Pharmacy in Swedish Primary Care through the SEIPS Model: A Focus Group Study

Time

Responsible presenting organization

Presenter

Title

2023

February 1st

MOIC, Northern Ireland

Sara Gardner

A Multifaceted Approach to Improve the rational use of Antibiotics and to reduce Healthcare-Acquired Infections within Secondary Care Settings in Northern Ireland

March 1st

Pharmacon, DK

Rikke Nørgaard Hansen

Challenges inmedication safety experienced by employees and managers in Danish municipalities

April 5th

Linnaeus University, Sweden

Tora Hammar

Can machine learning improve predictions of drug-related problems?

May 3rd

National Scenter for E-health research, Norway

Anette Vik Jøsendal

Multidose drug dispensing in home care services - Impact of a shared medication list on medication safety

June 21st

Sidney University, Australia

Tim Chen

Transitions of care post hospital discharge (ASPIRE trial)

September 6th

Umeå University

Jonas Kindstedt

Clinical pharmacist intervention in care transitions of acutely admitted older people: study protocol, preliminary results and reflections

October 4th

Trinity University, Ireland

Tamasine Grimes

Do not remember the title....

November 1st

Sidney University, Australia

Margaret Jordan

A pharmacist integrated into a general practice in Australia: how this evolving role achieved functional opioid deprescribing

December 6th

University of Southern Denmark, DK

Trine Graabæk

The voice of the patients: Identifying patients’ and relatives’ research priorities to improve the medication use among older people

	Time	Responsible presenting organization	Presenter	Title
2022	October 5^th	UiT the Arctic University of Norway	Jeanette Schultz Johansen	The IMMENSE study
	November 2^nd	Copenhagen University, Denmark	Susanne Kaae	Mentalizing – a new way to patient-centred communication in community pharmacy
	December 7^th	University of Oslo, Norway	Eirin Guldsten Robinson	“Healthcare costs of adverse drug reactions and potentially inappropriate prescribing in older adults: a population-based study”

Member Countries and Research Sites

Country	University / Research site	Department	Contact person	Webpage
Norway	UiT the Arctic University of Norway	Department of Pharmacy, IPSUM research group	Beate Garcia	https://uit.no/research/ipsum
Norway	University of Oslo	Department of Pharmacy, Section for Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Biosciences	Liv Mathiesen	https://www.mn.uio.no/farmasi/english/about/organisation/pharm-biosciences/index.html
Norway	National Scenter for E-health research	NA	Trine Bergmo	https://ehealthresearch.no
Denmark	Copenhagen University	Department of Pharmacy, Samfundsfarmasi og klinisk farmasi	Ramune Jacobsen	https://pharmacy.ku.dk/
Denmark	Pharmacon	NA	Charlotte Rossing	https://www.pharmakon.dk
Denmark	Danish Hospital Pharmacy Research Network		Trine Rune Høgh Andersen	https://www.linkedin.com/company/danhopr
Denmark	University of Southern Denmark	Department of Public Health	Trine Graabaek Hansen	https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/organisations/irs-sygehus-s%C3%B8nderjylland-forskningsenhed-for-hospitals-farmaci-a
Sweden	Umeå University	Department of Medical and Translational biology	Maria Gustafsson	https://www.umu.se/en/staff/org/c1c283668518c474830f91f387c7dfbb9e5859c1/
Sweden	Linnaeus University	Department of Medicine and Optometry	Lina Hellstrøm	https://lnu.se/en/research/
Sweden	Uppsala University	Department of Social Pharmacy	Elin C. Lehnbom	https://www.uu.se/en/contact-and-organisation/organisation?query=FF3%3A6
Northern Ireland	Medicines Optimization Innovation Center (MOIC)	NA	Michael Scott	https://themoic.hscni.net
Ireland	Trinity College Dublin		Tamasin Grimes	https://www.tcd.ie
Australia	The University of Sidney	Faculty of Medicine and Health	Tim Chen	https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/
Iceland	Iceland University	University of Iceland, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences	Freyja Jónsdóttir	https://hi.is/lyfjafraedideild
The Netherlands	Maastricht University Medical Center	Fac. Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Clinical Pharmacy	Fatma Karapinar	https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/en/organisations/faculty-of-health-medicine-and-life-sciences
The Netherlands	Utrecht University	Pharmacoepi. and Clinical Pharmacol.	Thomas Kempen	https://www.uu.nl/en
Germany	Heidelberg University	Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacoepidemiology)	Sophia Klasing	https://www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/en/kliniken-institute/kliniken/zentrum-fuer-innere-medizin-krehl-klinik/dept-of-clinical-pharmacology-and-pharmacoepidemiology