I have an interest in general practice and have worked part time in GP surgeries as a prescriber in the areas of hypertension, type 2 diabetes and medication review of elderly patients in residential care.  Prior to working in the School of Pharmacy, previous posts have included:

• Prescribing Adviser to GPs at the Health and Social Care Board, with a special interest in medicines governance and patient safety.
• Prescribing Information Pharmacist at the Regional Prescribing Information Unit, Department of Therapeutics and Pharmacology, QUB where I was involved in the development of COMPASS reports and COMPASS Therapeutic notes and in writing the RCGP Northern Ireland Formulary.  I conducted research around drug utilisation, patient compliance and hypertension.

Research Focus 

My current teaching focus at Queen’s University includes teaching clinical skills to both undergraduate pharmacy students and to pharmacists undertaking the Independent Prescribing qualification. I manage the Independent Prescribing course, which is based on the established course run by NICPLD (the Northern Ireland Centre for Pharmacy Learning and Development). 

My role also involves teaching MPHARM students in areas that are relevant to primary care e.g. safe prescribing systems, prescribing analysis, antimicrobial stewardship, formularies, medicines optimisation and evidence-based prescribing.

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Dr. Briegeen Girvin

School of Pharmacy