Senior Lecturer
Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice
Email: caroline.morris@otago.ac.nz
Background and Interests
Caroline has been working in the Department since 2009 and has held a variety of teaching, research and leadership roles. She has a professional background in pharmacy and has practised in both New Zealand and the UK. She gained her Master of Science (Clinical Pharmacy) and PhD from the University of Manchester (UK). She was subsequently employed as a researcher in a school of pharmacy, working in close collaboration with medical school divisions of primary care. Her research interests include the prescribing and use of medicines in primary care, prescribing-related communication, extending roles of pharmacists in primary care, minor ailment management (professional and patient perspectives), quality in primary care.
Research Activities
Caroline’s research activity has centred on ways of improving the safety of prescribing and reducing preventable drug-related morbidity in the primary care setting. This has included involvement in the development of a cluster randomised controlled trial of a pharmacist-led, information-technology-based intervention. She has also been involved in the development of a nationally-derived framework for quality activity and currently plays a leading role in HRC-funded work exploring the development and impact of changes in community pharmacy services and the development of new primary care pharmacy roles.
She is currently supervising one PhD student exploring the implications for training and service delivery of optimising pharmacist prescribing.