Stephen Carter

Biography

"tephen is a community pharmacist, researcher and academic. He has been a PSA NSW branch representative since 2007. Stephen is the immediate Past President and currently Vice President of the NSW Branch committee. Stephen has owned Milton Pharmacy on the south coast since 1990. He is currently a full-time lecturer in pharmacy practice at the University of Sydney. Prior to this he was a Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice at the University of Canberra. He completed his PhD in 2013 with a thesis dealing with consumers and caregivers’ engagement with Home Medicines Reviews. Stephen has been accredited to perform medication review since program inception and represented PSA on the National Advisory Group for the AACP for five years. Stephen’s research is centred on consumers’ experiences with medicines and how their thoughts, feelings and behaviour can be modified to ensure the quality use of medicines. His research interests also aim to ensure that society makes the most use of pharmacists’ expertise in medication management services and how best to educate pharmacists to achieve this. He has recently published a text-book chapter dealing with the unique and expanding role of pharmacists in the Australian Health System.

Research Interest

Pharmaceutical industry