Personal
- Name
- Professor Lisa Nissen
- Position(s)
- Head of School
Faculty of Health,
School - Clinical Sciences - IHBI Membership
Institute of Health Biomedical Innovation (IHBI),
IHBI Health Projects,
IHBI Clinical Sciences - CDA - Discipline *
- Clinical Sciences, Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 4404
- Fax
- +61 7 3138 1534
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Qualifications
-
PhD in Pharmacy (University of Queensland)
- Keywords
-
Pharmacy Practice, Health Services, Safe Prescribing, Telehealth, Health Policy, Health Professional Education, Pharmacoepidemiology
* Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Biography
Dr Lisa Nissen is Professor and Head of the School of Clinical Sciences at Queensland University of Technology. She is an experienced pharmacy practitioner, researcher and educator having worked in hospital and community pharmacy in metropolitan and rural areas of Queensland, Australia. Her focus is on improving the Quality Use of Medicines in the wider community, across the health care continuum, with a focus on health service development and factors that influence the prescribing of medicines. She is a strong believer in the benefits multidisciplinary health care teams can bring to patient care and takes this passion into the classroom with a commitment to the development and implementation of innovative interprofessional education for health students. In recognition of her teaching contributions she was awarded a National Award for Teaching Excellence in 2008 and 2013.
Lisa has been acknowledged for her contributions to the pharmacy profession, being the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia Young Pharmacist of the Year in 2002 and Pharmacist of the Year in 2008. She is a Fellow of the Practicing Pharmacists Association of Hong Kong, the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia and the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia. Lisa is the immediate past-president of the Queensland Branch of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia and is one of the inaugural credentials Australian Advanced Practice Pharmacists.
This information has been contributed by Professor Lisa Nissen.
Publications
- Noor Z, Smith AJ, Smith SS, Nissen LM, (2016) A feasibility study: Use of actigraph to monitor and follow-up sleep/wake patterns in individuals attending community pharmacy with sleeping disorders, Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences p173-180
- Manrique YJ, Sparkes AM, Cichero JA, Stokes JR, Nissen LM, Steadman KJ, (2016) Oral medication delivery in impaired swallowing: thickening liquid medications for safe swallowing alters dissolution characteristics, Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy p1537-1544
- Hale A, Coombes I, Stokes J, Aitken S, Clarke F, Nissen LM, (2016) Patient satisfaction from two studies of collaborative doctor - pharmacist prescribing in Australia, Health Expectations p49-61
- Jackson S, Martin G, Bergin J, Clark B, Halstead P, Rowett D, Stupans I, Galbraith K, Yeates G, Nissen LM, Marty S, Gysslink P, Kirsa S, Coombes I, Matthews A, Deans K, Sorimachi K, (2015) Advanced practice: a survey of current perspectives of Australian pharmacists, Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research p186-192
- Nguyen T, Lau ET, Steadman KJ, Cichero JA, Dingle KD, Nissen LM, (2014) Pharmacist, general practitioner, and nurse perceptions, experiences, and knowledge of medication dosage form modification, Integrated Pharmacy Research and Practice p1-9
- Poudel A, Peel N, Nissen LM, Mitchell C, Gray L, Hubbard R, (2014) Potentially inappropriate prescribing in older patients discharged from acute care hospitals to residential aged care facilities, The Annals of Pharmacotherapy p1425-1433
- Freeman C, Cottrell WN, Kyle GJ, Williams I, Nissen L, (2013) An evaluation of medication review reports across different settings, International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy p5-13
- Hollingworth SA, Siskind DJ, Nissen L, Robinson M, Hall W, (2010) Patterns of antipsychotic medication use in Australia 2002-2007, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry p372-377
- Poulson L, Nissen L, Coombes I, (2010) Pharmaceutical review using telemedicine - a before and after feasibility study, Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare p95-99
- Zin CS, Nissen L, Smith MT, O'Callaghan JP, Moore BJ, (2008) An update on the pharmacological management of post-herpetic neuralgia and painful diabetic neuropathy, CNS Drugs p417-422
Awards
Awards and recognition
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2014
- Details
- Winner of the Wharton QS Stars Reimagine Education Award. Award for Nurturing Employability Health Fusion Team Challenge.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2014
- Details
- Winner of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (QLD) Bowl of Hygeia Award.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2014
- Details
- Winner of the UTS Innovative Pharmacist Award for the QPIP Pharmacist Immunization Pilot.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2014
- Details
- Winner of the Australian Award for University Teaching. Award for Programs that Enhance Learning Health Fusion Team Challenge.
- Type
- Visiting Professorships/Fellowships
- Reference year
- 2011
- Details
- Fellowship of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia is awarded for having achieved significant advancement in the practice of pharmacy or an outstanding contribution to the Society or profession for an extended period
- Type
- Visiting Professorships/Fellowships
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- Hong Kong Academy of Pharmacy Fellowship is an award bestowed on members of the pharmacy community who have made a significant contribution to the pharmacy profession through leadership, scholarship and research.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2008
- Details
- Winner of the Australian Award for University Teaching. Awards for Teaching Excellence celebrate teachers renowned for teaching excellence, who have outstanding presentation skills and who have made a significant contribution to enhancing the quality of learning and teaching in higher education. More information found at http://www.altc.edu.au/award-early-career-awards-teaching-excellence-recipient-2008-lisa-nissen, and http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24717502-5018490,00.html
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2008
- Details
- Winner of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia¿s Pharmacist of the Year. The Award for the Pharmacist of the Year recognises the winner¿s important contribution to the pharmacy profession. The winner's achievements will be an inspiration to those pursuing innovative practice; to those striving to raise standards; and to pharmacists who, through their professionalism, provide models for others in related disciplines, educational institutions, government, industry and community service. The award of Pharmacist of the Year is based on a significant achievement in an area of excellence within the year or a recent period. More information located at http://www.psa.org.au/site.php?id=2921
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2007
- Details
- Winner of the University of Queensland Excellence in Teaching Award Winner of the University of Queensland Excellence in Teaching Award. The awards give recognition to teachers renowned for the excellence of their teaching, which is supported by evidence of their broad and deep contribution to enhancing the quality of learning and teaching at The University of Queensland. There are five awards in total granted each year at the discretion of the Teaching and Learning Committee. http://www.uq.edu.au/teaching-learning/index.html?page=69686&pid=69671
- Type
- Visiting Professorships/Fellowships
- Reference year
- 2007
- Details
- Fellowship of SHPA will be awarded to a member who has demonstrated a high level of postgraduate academic achievement in areas relevant to the practice of hospital pharmacy, has a demonstrated active commitment to the profession, and who is recognized as a leader of the profession, a member whose opinions are valued, recognized and sought.
Research projects
Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)
- Title
- Enabling competence in prescribing medicines across multiple healthcare disciplines through systematic assessment practices
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- ID14-3766
- Start year
- 2014
- Keywords
- Prescribing, Competency, Assessment, Healthcare Profession, Student, Safety
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Optimising prescribing in frail older people (2015)
- Patterns of medication use in Queensland Australia and the impact of a large copayment increase: an exploratory study (2015)
- Understanding the mechanism of drug delivery from thickened fluids to aid swallowing of medications (2015)
- Becoming pharmacists: how the pharmacy curriculum influences professional identity formation (2014)
- Doctor - pharmacist collaborative prescribing in a multidisciplinary surgical preadmission clinic: Expanding the role of the preadmission clinic pharmacist (2014)
- Improving the management of sleep disorders in the community (2014)
- Healthcare access, medicine access and medicine regulation in developing and developed countries: a qualitative investigation of pharmacists' perspectives (2013)
- Investigating the management of over the counter sleep requests in community pharmacy (2013)
- Pharmacists as members of the multidisciplinary General Practice team: A new model of Australian pharmacy practice (2013)
- Pharmacists discussing beliefs about medicines to improve medication adherence: use of the repertory grid technique in patients post myocardial infarction (2012)