Williams, Kylie - University of Technology Sydney - Graduate School of Health， Master of Pharmacy

个人简介

A/Prof Williams is a registered pharmacist with 18 years of academic experience in teaching and research at both the University of Technology Sydney and The University of Sydney. She has made a sustained contribution to learning and teaching in Pharmacy, and has taught students at all levels of study (undergraduates, postgraduates, practicing pharmacists). She has expertise in a variety of areas including evidence-based practice, drug information, pharmacoepidemiology, online health information, and therapeutics, and has a special interest in eLearning. She has extensive experience with the design, implementation and evaluation of curricula, at both the individual subject level, as well as for entire programs. She has received a number of teaching grants, has co-authored teaching-related peer-reviewed journal articles and two professional books, and has written over 80 educational articles for pharmacists. Her teaching efforts were recognised with an Award for Outstanding teaching at The University of Sydney in 2006.

研究领域

A/Prof Williams' main research interest is consumer self-care and pharmacy's role in this, with a focus on non-prescription drugs, and the use of the Internet. Consumers are becoming increasingly involved in self-management and decision-making regarding their health, and are requiring timely and convenient access to health services. Pharmacy is well positioned to assist consumers with self-care as pharmacies are widely distributed and, therefore, extremely accessible. Pharmacists could be involved with many aspects of self-care, including provision of non-prescription drugs and advice, chronic disease management, preventative health care and health promotion. A/Prof Williams' interest in the area of self-care began with her PhD which focused on how consumers used non-prescription non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, as well as developing an innovative methodology for monitoring actual use of non-prescription products and consumer self-medication behaviour. Since then, this methodology has been widely used to explore consumer use of such medications as paracetamol, pseudoephedrine and the emergency oral contraceptive. A/Prof Williams is also interested in pharmacy provision of non-prescription drugs. She has been involved in a nation-wide study of community pharmacy interventions in the non-prescription area, which has been used as evidence to maintain the current Pharmacy and Pharmacist-only Medicine schedules (S2 and S3). Recent work includes the evaluation of pharmacists' perspectives on the provision of the emergency contraceptive pill (ECP), as well as pseudo-patient testing of the service provided in community pharmacies in relation to the ECP, and evaluation of community and Internet pharmacy provision of children’s over-the-counter cough and cold medicines. A/Prof Williams is also interested in the impact of technology on pharmacy and consumer self-care. Projects in this area have included: telepharmacy - the use of videoconferencing to provide patient discharge counselling; pharmacists’ use of online health information and their search strategies; consumer and pharmacist use of Internet-based medicine information; ePharmacy and Standards of Practice; blogging and the development of critical reflection in pharmacy; using a wiki to enhance collaboration in problem based learning; Australian consumers and DTCA on the Internet. Current projects include the assessment of online insomnia-related information for consumers and online asthma information in Arabic for consumers in Saudi Arabia.

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Chen, T.F., Whitehead, M., Williams, K., Moles, R., Aslani, P. & Benrimoj, S.I. 2002, Case studies in Practice Medication review: A process guide for pharmacists., PSA Publishing, Sydney. Williams, K. & Aslani, P. 2001, Essential CPE - New drug in Context: Antifungals, Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA), ACT, AU.