Clinical Pharmacist, Western Hospital (Footscray Campus), Victoria (1985-87), University of Tasmania (1987 to present - currently Head of School). • Community pharmacist, practicing weekly, an accredited pharmacist and owner of a large rural community pharmacy • Director, National Prescribing Service Limited • Australian Pharmacist of the Year 2007
• Co-Editor, Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics (a leading international journal in pharmacy and clinical pharmacology)
• Appointed to the Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee; a committe responsible for determining which medicines are funded via the Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. • He was awarded the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia's highest honour - the Australian Pharmacist of the Year for 2007.
Career Summary
Greg has a background in community, hospital and academic pharmacy. He is Professor of Pharmacy at the University of Tasmania, a practicing pharmacist and part-owner of a community pharmacy in rural Queensland. He is Sigma Pharmaceuticals’ sole Medical Advisor. Since 2000 he has held a personal Chair in Pharmacy at the University of Tasmania, awarded on the basis of research and teaching excellence. In 2007 Greg was awarded the PSA Pharmacist of the Year, a highly prestigious and coveted award. Greg established and leads an innovative research unit in improving medication outcomes (UMORE; Unit for Medication Outcomes Research and Education) within the School of Pharmacy. In the past 7 years UMORE has attracted competitive external funds of over $11M. Greg’s research interests centre on improving the use of medicines (optimising the safety and cost-effectiveness of medication usage). Greg has led many state and national projects directed at improving the use of medications and patient outcomes in both community and hospital sectors. Greg was appointed Head of the School of Pharmacy in 2009.
Research Interests
Research interests include: clinical pharmacy/pharmacology; therapeutic drug monitoring; medication safety, pharmacy practice, health informatics.
Greg’s research interests centre on improving the use of medicines (optimising the safety and cost-effectiveness of medication usage), and he has over 100 research papers published in refereed international and national journals, plus more than 80 professional publications and more than 90 scientific presentations at national and international conferences. Greg has led many community and hospital projects directed at improving the use of medications and patient outcomes. He has an international standing and record of accomplishment in the area of programs to promote the safe and rational use of medications. He has research interests dating back to several international publications in the early 1980s in the use of ICT to improve the safety and efficacy of health care delivery, including the use of medications.
Research Areas:Teaching
Pharmacy practice, clinical pharmacokinetics, therapeutics, drug information.
UnitsSelected Publications:- Jacobson GA and GM Peterson, 1994, 'High-performance liquid chromatographic assay for the simultaneous determination of ipratropium bromide, fenoterol, salbutamol and terbutaline in nebulizer solution.
', Journal of Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Analysis , 12:6, pgs. 825-832
- Gee PR and GM Peterson, 1994, 'PharmTutor, a Computer-assisted Learning Package for Community Pharmacists.
', Australian Pharmacist , 4, pgs. 123-128
- Drummond SH, Peterson GM, Kaye AEF, 1994, 'Hospital admissions due to drug overdose.
', Australian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy , 24, pgs. 231-4
- Bleasel MD, GM Peterson and Paul F Dunne, 1994, 'Plasma concentrations of midazolam during continuous subcutaneous administration in palliative care.
', Palliative Medicine , 8, pgs. 231-236
- Peterson GM and JE Sugden, 1995, 'Educational program to improve the dosage prescribing of allopurinol.
', Medical Journal of Australia , 162(2) , pgs. 74-77
- Peterson, G , 2001, 'Pharmaquiz. Atrial fibrillation. ', Australian Pharmacist, 20(4), pgs. 262
- Peterson, G , 2001, 'Rational drug usage in the elderly: walking the fine line between polypharmacy and undertreatment.
', Australian Pharmacist, 20(4), pgs. 248-254
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