Nashwa Masnoon
University of South Australia, Australia
Biography
Nashwa Masnoon is a PhD student at the University of South Australia (UniSA) and a pharmacist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH). She graduated from Bachelor of Pharmacy with Honours at UniSA in 2013. Her research experiences include developing a dose adjustment tool for warfarin, evaluating patient retention of information after warfarin counselling by clinical pharmacists and assessing the use of different psychotropic medications in a mental health hospital. As a result of having worked at the Repatriation General Hospital, Glenside Mental Health Hospital and the RAH, her areas of interest and publications are in geriatric medicine, psychotropic polypharmacy and the quality use of medicines. Nashwa’s PhD project focuses on optimising medication use in the older population. She is also involved in medication management for clients with disabilities. Nashwa received the Student Leadership Award in 2013 for mentoring students and continues teaching undergraduate students and interns in hospital pharmacy.