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Senior Lecturer
Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice
Email: caroline.morris@otago.ac.nz

Background and Interests

Caroline has been working in the Department since 2009 and has held a variety of teaching, research and leadership roles. She has a professional background in pharmacy and has practised in both New Zealand and the UK. She gained her Master of Science (Clinical Pharmacy) and PhD from the University of Manchester (UK). She was subsequently employed as a researcher in a school of pharmacy, working in close collaboration with medical school divisions of primary care. Her research interests include the prescribing and use of medicines in primary care, prescribing-related communication, extending roles of pharmacists in primary care, minor ailment management (professional and patient perspectives), quality in primary care.

Research Activities

Caroline’s research activity has centred on ways of improving the safety of prescribing and reducing preventable drug-related morbidity in the primary care setting. This has included involvement in the development of a cluster randomised controlled trial of a pharmacist-led, information-technology-based intervention. She has also been involved in the development of a nationally-derived framework for quality activity and currently plays a leading role in HRC-funded work exploring the development and impact of changes in community pharmacy services and the development of new primary care pharmacy roles.

She is currently supervising one PhD student exploring the implications for training and service delivery of optimising pharmacist prescribing.

Publications

Campbell, C., Morris, C., Sunderland, B., McBain, L., & Czarniak, P. (2024). Contribution of the community pharmacist workforce to primary care through the lens of medicines classification: Comparison of Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. Journal of Primary Health Care. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1071/HC24050 Journal - Research Article

McDonald, J., Morris, C., Officer, T. N., Cumming, J., Kennedy, J., Russell, L., McKinlay, E., & Jeffreys, M. (2024). Practice pharmacists in the primary healthcare team in Aotearoa New Zealand: A national survey. Journal of Primary Health Care. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1071/HC24049 Journal - Research Article

Murton, S., McBain, L., Morris, C., Jaine, E., & Gray, L. (2024). Prescribing deprescribing for polypharmacy in Aotearoa New Zealand: Experiences of a medication review activity in final year medical students on a general practice module. Journal of Primary Health Care. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1071/HC23169 Journal - Research Article

Morris, C., McDonald, J., Officer, T. N., Fa'asalele Tanuvasa, A., Smiler, K., Parore, N., … McKinlay, E., Kennedy, J., … Cumming, J. (2024). A realist evaluation of the development of extended pharmacist roles and services in community pharmacies. Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy, 20, 321-334. doi: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2023.11.006 Journal - Research Article

Hilder, J., McBain, L., Stubbe, M., Stairmand, J., Morris, C., & Dunlop, A. (2023). We need to talk about polypharmacy: A qualitative study of medication reviews with older adults. Proceedings of the New Zealand Primary Health Care, General Practice & Rural Health Research Symposium. (pp. 9). Retrieved from https://www.otago.ac.nz/wellington/departments/primaryhealthcaregeneralpractice Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

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