Purple Pen Podcast

Heather Cleland, Director of the Victorian Adult Burns Unit at The Alfred join Jane and Dan to discuss the work of the Unit, the management of major burns and medication usage in this special popul…

Jane and Dan speak to Emma Dean, smoking cessation co-ordinator at Alfred Health.

 We talk to Emma about:

• The optimal time to start a conversation about smoking cessation
• The ideal regimen and dosin…

Jane and Dan talk to Professor Tina Brock, Human of Pharmacy and Professor of Pharmacy Education and Practice at Monash University. We talk to Tina about:

• Her journey from Mississippi to Melbourne
• W…

Jane and Dan chat to Dr Rochelle Gellatly, a clinical pharmacy specialist in critical care, an Australian Advanced Practice Pharmacist in Cardiology and a Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist w…

In this special midweek episode, Dan is joined by NAPSA president Shefali Parekh from Congress in Perth.

Dan and Shefali chat about NAPSA and the Congress, as well as several topical issues, includin…

Dan and Jane talk to David Liew, a Rheumatologist and Clinical Pharmacology fellow.

We talk to David about:

• The difference between biosimilars and generic medicines
• What is currently known about t…

Jane is joined by Dawson MacLeod, a specialist in poisons information from the Victorian Poisons Information Centre. 

Jane talks to Dawson about:

·      The cardiac QT interval and its clinical sign…

Jane and Dan chat online to Dr Michael Ward, a lecturer and researcher at the University of South Australia School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences.

• The emerging importa…

Jane chats to Amy Page, Consultant Pharmacist and PhD candidate at the University of Western Australia about:

• What “deprescribing” means in practical terms
• The optimal time to consider ceasing a med…

Jane and Dan sat down with Dr Bob Feroli, one of the keynote speakers at SHPA MM2016 and the Medication Safety Officer at Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore, USA).

We talk to Bob about: Medication saf…

This episode is part of the Humans of Pharmacy series, where we talk to people with a connection to clinical pharmacy who have interesting stories to share.

In this episode Jane talks to Jeanie Misko…

Dan chats to Cia Connell, a senior clinical pharmacist in cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery at the Alfred Hospital. We talk to Cia about:

• The preferred acronym for new anticoagulants: NOAC or D…

Dan and Jane chat with Andrew Matthews, General Manager of Workforce Transformation at the SHPA about the upcoming Residency Program.

We talk to Andrew about: Progress establishing an Australian phar…

In the first episode of the Purple Pen Podcast, Jane and Dan talk to Dr Jason Trubiano, ID Physician and co-ordinator of antibiotic allergy services at Austin Health and Peter Mac.

The Purple Pen Pod…