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Professional Doctorate in Health and Social Care Disciplines

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Dave BrownDave Brown

Title: Professor
Qualifications: BPharm, PhD, MRPharmS
Department: School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
Address: Room 2.04, St Michael’s Building, White Swan Rd, Portsmouth, Hants, PO14 3HZ
Email: david.brown@port.ac.uk

What is your role on the Professional Doctorate?

Occasional supervisor.

What is your background?

Experience of hospital, community and industrial pharmacy and teaching and research in all three areas.

What are your research interests?

Medicines information, pharmacovigilance, drug safety.

How many times have you supervised as:-

Director of Studies (completed supervisions only) - 2
2nd Supervisor (completed supervisions only) - 0

Publications (up to three)

Albraik, F., Rutter P., Brown D. A cross-sectonal survey of herbal remedy taking by United Arab Emirate (UAE) citizens in Abu Dhabi. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Safety 2008; 17(7): 725-732.

Marvin, V.A., Brown, D., Portlock, J., Livingstone, C. Factors contributing to the development of hypophosphataemia when refeeding using parenteral nutrition. Pharm World Sci 2008; 30(4): 329-335.

Read H., Ladds S., Rhodes B., Brown D., Portlock J.The impact of a supplementary review and counselling service within the oncology outpatient setting. Br J Cancer 2007 96(5) 744-751.

Current projects:

PhD Programme: Herbal medicine in the United Arab Emirates – usage, uptake and safety.
PhD Programme: The role of the pharmacist in the A&E department.
PhD Programme: Using the evidence base in pharmacovigilance decision making.
Professional Doctorate research: Improving medicines management at the primary/secondary care interface.
Professional Doctorate research: Medicines use by British Forces patients attending Designated German Provider hospitals.

Past projects (selection):

PhD programme: Provision and utilisation of continuing education for community pharmacists.
PhD programme: The socio- and pharmaco-epidemiology of drug-related visits to hospital accident and emergency departments.
PhD programme: Relevance of community pharmacy input into compliance with medicine regimes in housebound and semi-housebound patients.
PhD programme: Community pharmacy support for lactating mothers requiring medication.
PhD Programme: Structured nurse-led clinics for dyspeptic patients: comparisons of traditional and new care pathways.
PhD Programme: HIV / AIDS prevalence in an antenatal population using sexually transmitted infection and conflict related influences.
PhD Programme: Signal generation and detection in pharmacovigilance.
MD programme: Adverse event profiles in children taking second generation anticonvulsants.
Professional Doctorate research: Investigation of the role of the pharmacist in product development and drug regulation.
Professional Doctorate research: A prospective cohort study of patients started on parenteral nutrition; their biochemical markers and risk factors for refeeding hypophosphataemia.

Define best research/education experience:

Being appointed Professor of Pharmacy Practice, University of Portsmouth.

Favourite relevant quote:

Old professors never die; they merely lose their faculties (a golden oldie).