Professor Derek Stewart
Derek Stewart is Professor in Pharmacy Practice at the School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences at Robert Gordon University (RGU), Aberdeen, Scotland and is lead for practice research in the School and the Faculty of Health and Social Care. He is a fellow and faculty fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
He has worked at RGU since 1991 and also has experience of pharmacy practice in all healthcare settings. He is an executive editor of the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy. He has extensive experience of peer reviewing abstracts, papers and research grant applications.
His research interests focus on: developing, implementing and sustaining novel models of pharmacy practice; and medicines use, effectiveness and safety. In addition, he has been collaborating with key individuals within Hamad Medical Corporation and Qatar University since 2010 and is the lead investigator on a study funded by the Qatar National Research Fund, ‘Exploring medication error causality and reporting in Hamad Medical Corporation: a study of the attitudes, beliefs and experiences of health professionals and other key stakeholders’.
He has other current programs of work in: pharmacist prescribing and prescribing by other non-medical healthcare professionals; medication errors; pharmacovigilance; polypharmacy and medication adherence; community pharmacists and public health; reclassified medicines; medication wastage; complementary and alternative medicines use; and facilitators and barriers towards research in practice. He has published over 100 peer reviewed papers.
