Medway school of pharmacy

Andrea obtained his MPharm 1988 from Trieste University School of Pharmacy, Italy. In 1991 he then obtained his second degree, Doctor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology with particular focus on chemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry, also from Trieste University School of Pharmacy.

While working in hospital and community pharmacies, he completed in 1999 a postgraduate qualification in Hospital Pharmacy, from Padua University School of Pharmacy, Italy, with special interest in antibiotics and chemotherapy.

During 2003 he obtained a Certificate in Foundation of Senior Management from the Open University Business School (OUBS), UK. In 2005 he then went on to achieve a MBA (Master of Business Administration) from Bradford School of Management, UK, with a major in strategy and business modelling. During the same year he also received two accreditations: MUR (Medicine Use Review) from the Medway School of Pharmacy and Repeat Dispensing from CPPE (The University of Manchester).

Andrea work's experience spans from communities to hospitals pharmacies, (Italy, UK and Switzerland) and from industry to research (Italy). He worked for the public sectors, such as NHS, Private Health Care provider; he also worked as Pharmacist Manager and Locum. He has been pharmacist proprietor in Italy and Switzerland and management consultant in Italy too.

Andrea is MRPharms, Member of PharmaSuisse, Member of SIFO, Member of the Commonwealth Pharmacy Association and PLB Pioneer.

back to top

Pharmacy is a very demanding profession and Pharmacists are among the major players in the health care arena.

These are some interesting areas that need further investigation:

• Pharmacy Practice in Europe: the application of different dispensing methods and different ways to process prescription, from the paper based, to the more evolved electronic once, in order to generate electronic PMR that can be even share among different players.
• Development and application of new models in community pharmacy: moving from a static model, drug centric, where pharmacists are mainly involved in checking, to a dynamic model, patient centric, where pharmacists have a proactive role, dealing with clinical issues such as ADR, drug administration, injections, vaccination, drug information and management/financial issues too.
• Creation and development of a platform in order to share information in real time among different countries: a new and crucial role for the profession is coming up. There is even more need to share information about patients in real time in order to provide better and tailored service. Information communication technology (ICT) and Pharmacists are a very powerful combination and they could make a real contribution to people’s lives.
• Creation of a standardized European PMR (Patient Medication Record): there is the need to create a standardized PMR to facilitate people movement around Europe; at the same time to share information and reduce medication errors.

back to top

• Cartei G, Peressoni R, Manfrin A, (1996) Book. Manipolazione dei farmaci antitumorali, il ruolo del farmacista ospedaliero, ISBN 88-793-102-7, UTET Periodici Data base/Software: BIO

back to top