Contact Details
- Phone
- +64 21 261 9996
- sharon.leitch@otago.ac.nz
- Position
- Senior Lecturer
- Department
- Department of General Practice and Rural Health (Dunedin)
- Qualifications
- MB ChB DCH PGDipGP PhD FRNZCGP
- Research summary
- Safe medication use in primary care
- Teaching
- Co-ordinator of GENA821 Research Methods in Primary Health Care
- Memberships
- Departmental Research Convener
- Postgraduate Education Committee
- Clinical
- General Practitioner at Dunedin Health Centre
Research
Sharon is exploring ways of improving patient safety in primary care. This work aims to inform patients about their risk of medication harm, promoting patient self-efficacy and facilitating shared decision-making between patients, their whānau and clinicians.
Sharon is also involved with the establishment of the Southern Primary Care Research Network. She is interested in optimising the use of routinely collected healthcare data in research.