Pharmacy Education Symposium 2009
Professor John Graham Davies
Graham is Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, King’s faculty London and Head of Programmes for the Joint Programmes Board (JPB), London, East and South East England.
The JPB, a collaboration between eight pharmacy schools and senior National Health Service (NHS) pharmacy partners, is charged with developing a work-based progressive portfolio of post-registration programmes to support pharmacist competency development. He has a keen interest in developing career structures within the profession, particularly as they relate to pharmacist competence, and in developing novel teaching and curriculum design methods to support core clinical skill acquisition. One of these core areas involves teaching and assessing consultation skills to pharmacists utilising the ‘Medication Related Consultation Framework’.
Graham’s research interests embrace two areas relating to professional and clinical work. He retains a strong interest in the development of clinical pharmacy practitioners through research evaluating competence assessment. He currently works on a research team developing and testing a competency framework for evaluating hospital pharmacist’s practice.
His main clinical research interest involves studying artificial kidney systems and drug removal in acute renal failure patients.
Graham worked as a clinical pharmacist in Cardiff and London for almost 10 years before taking up a joint position as Senior Lecturer (Clinical Studies) at the School of Pharmacy, University of Brighton and advisor to South Thames Regional Health Authority on matters relating to clinical pharmacy practice. During this time he led the Postgraduate Diploma/Masters in Clinical Pharmacy Practice before being appointed, in 1997, Director of Clinical Studies, overseeing the development of both undergraduate and postgraduate clinical pharmacy courses. In 2005, he was awarded a personal chair, in Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, by the University of Brighton before moving to his current position in October 2007.
Graham is on the editorial board of Pharmacy Education and also reviews for other journals.
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