Head of Programmes, JPB

Professor of Clinical Pharmacy & Therapeutics, King's College London

Tel: 020 7160 0540
Email: graham.davies@pharmacy.ac.uk

Biography

Graham is Head of Programmes for the Joint Programmes Board for London, East and South East England (1 days a week), with overall responsibility for delivering the key educational strategy and for ensuring that programme development is in line with patient safety and employer need. In addition, he is also Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics at the Department of Pharmacy King’s College, London having previously held a personal chair at the School of Pharmacy, University of Brighton. He has a keen interest in developing career structures within the profession, in particular as they relate to the competence of pharmacists, and in designing both undergraduate and postgraduate curricula which embrace novel clinical teaching and assessment methods to promote the acquisition of competencies.

Graham is on the editorial board of the Pharmacy Education journal and serves as a reviewer for other journals. His main clinical research area is in the study of novel artificial kidney systems to treat renal failure. He graduated from the Welsh School of Pharmacy (University of Wales; Cardiff) in 1980, was awarded an MSc in Clinical Pharmacy from the School of Pharmacy (University of London) in 1987 and a PhD, from the University of Brighton, in 1997.

Membership of Professional Bodies

Graham is a member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and UKCPA.

Selected Publications

Abdel-Tawab, R., James, D.H., Fichtinger, A., Clatworthy, J., Horne, R. and Davies, JG. (2011) Development and validation of the Medication-Related Consultation Framework (MRCF). Patient Educ Couns., Jun; 83(3), pp. 451-7.

Coombes, I., Avent, M., Cardiff, L., Bettenay, K., Coombes, J., Whitfield, K., Stokes, J., Davies, JG. and Bates, I. (2010)  Improvement in pharmacist’s performance facilitated by an adapted competency-based general level framework.  J. Pharmacy Practice and Research, 40(2), pp. 111-118.

Patel, J.P., West, D., Bates, I., Eggleton, A.G. and Davies, JG. (2009) Early experiences of the mini-PAT (Peer Assessment Tool) amongst hospital pharmacists in south east London. Int J Pharm Pract, Apr; 17(2), pp.123-6.

McKenzie CA, McKinnon W, Naughton DP, Treacher D, Davies G, Phillips GJ, Hilton PJ (2005). Differentiating midazolam over-sedation from neurological damage in the intensive care unit. Critical Care; 9 : 32-36.

Ramsay NA, Kenny MW, Davies JG, Patel JP (2005). Complimentary and alternative medicine use among patients starting warfarin.  British J of Haematology; 130 : 777-780.

Davies JG, Coombes ID, Phillips GJ, Street MK, Kingswood C, Ruprah M (2005). The removal of morphine, morphine-3-glucuronide and morphine-6-glucuronide by continuous methods of renal replacement therapies in critically ill patients. Filtration; 1 (2):129-135

Antoniou S, Webb DG, McRobbie D, Davies JG, Wright J, Quinn J and Bates IP. A controlled study of the general level framework: Results of the South of England competency study (2005).  Pharmacy Education; 5(3/4): 201-207

Corbo M, Patel JP, Abdel Tawab R and Davies JG. Evaluating clinical skills of undergraduate pharmacy students using objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) (2006). Pharmacy Education; 6(1): 53-58

McRobbie D., Fleming G., Ortner M., Bates I. and Davies J.G. Evaluating skills and competencies of pre-registration pharmacists using objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs). Pharmacy Education, June 2006; Vol. 6(2): p 133-138

Invited Presentations

Graham has presented at numerous national and international conference; most recently in Singapore (National Pharmacist Conference) and Australia (Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia).