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Dr Heather Barry

School of Pharmacy
Heather Barry

Dr Heather Barry

School of Pharmacy

Dr. Barry is a qualified pharmacist and health services researcher. She is Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice in the School of Pharmacy, Queen’s University Belfast. Her research interests relate to service delivery and organisation of care within the primary healthcare setting, rational prescribing and medicines use for older people particularly those with dementia, frailty and multimorbidity, and pharmacists’ integration into general practice and their contribution to the multidisciplinary healthcare team. She has broad research experience utilising both qualitative and quantitative methodologies.

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Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of health services research, primary care, prescribing, medicines optimisation, older people.

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Current Research Opportunities

  • The role of carers in medicines management for people living with dementia

Public outreach & key achievements

  • Member, Scientific Advisory Panel, Pharmacy Research UK
  • Associate Editor, BMC Health Services Research
  • Visiting Scholar, Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Canada
  • STEM ambassador

Research students

Name: Fiona Carabine
PhD title: An exploration of medication-related harm in people living with dementia
Years of Study: 2022-2025
Country: Northern Ireland

Name: Nahla Alageel
PhD title: Optimising medicines use for people with dementia in Saudi Arabia
Years of Study: 2021-2024
Country: Saudi Arabia

Name: Catherine Sinnamon
PhD title: Optimising management of anxiety and depression for people with dementia in primary care
Years of Study: 2021-2024
Country: Northern Ireland

Name: Nawaf Alsulami
PhD title: An assessment of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on medicines optimisation for care home residents with dementia
Years of Study: 2021-2024
Country: Saudi Arabia

Name: Bara’a Shawaqfeh
PhD title: Optimising use of anticholinergic drugs by people with dementia in primary care
Years of Study: 2020-2023
Country: Jordan

 


Alumni: Where are they now

Name: Lucy Faulkner
PhD title: Medicines optimisation for frail older people in primary care: an exploration of community pharmacists’ experiences, knowledge and perspectives
Years of Study: 2018-2022
Country: Northern Ireland
Current position: Pharmacist


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