Description
Speakers:
Kieran Dalton, BPharm, MPharm, PhD
- Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Perrine Evrard, MPharm, PhD
- Post-doctoral researcher, Pharmaceutical Care Research Group, School of Pharmacy, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Learning objectives
After the webinar, participants should be able to gain a greater understanding of:
- Medication optimisation challenges in those i) with limited life expectancy, or ii) who are prescribed benzodiazepines
- How to develop a behaviour change intervention
- Applying a validated screening tool to identify deprescribing opportunities
- Measuring outcomes associated with deprescribing
Description
This webinar aims to share evidence and experiences regarding deprescribing interventions for older adults in nursing homes.
Dr Kieran Dalton has been a Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy in University College Cork, Ireland since 2019. He has a wealth of personal experience in working as a pharmacist in hospital, community, and long-term care settings, as well as in supervising pharmacists undertaking PhD and Masters degree research in a variety of clinical practice settings. From 2016 to 2019, he completed his PhD on investigating the factors affecting the implementation of recommendations to optimise medication appropriateness in hospitalised older adults. Since then, Kieran has continued to conduct research in the area of medication optimisation in older adults, with a particular focus on deprescribing. In 2023, he was awarded a place on the United States Deprescribing Research Network’s Junior Investigator Intensive program. Alongside collaborators locally, nationally, and internationally, Kieran’s current research also includes focusing on prescribing cascades, behavioural determinants influencing medication use, informing the advancement of the pharmacist role, and computerised interventions to enhance prescribing appropriateness
Dr Perrine Evrard is a pharmacist currently working as a post-doctoral researcher in University College Cork. She conducted her PhD between 2018 and 2024 at the Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacoepidemiology research group, Louvain Drug Research Institute, UCLouvain, Belgium, under the supervision of Prof Anne Spinewine and Prof Séverine Henrard. Her PhD research focused on the development of an intervention for deprescribing benzodiazepines in nursing homes, with insights from behaviour change theories and implementation science. At the same time, she worked as a teaching assistant at the pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences faculty, UCLouvain. As of October 2024, Perrine is working as a post-doctoral researcher at University College Cork, with Dr Kieran Dalton and Prof Stephen Byrne, where she is continuing research relating to interventions to optimise older adults’ medication
