Margaret Robinson

Margaret Robinson is a registered Pharmacist with a post-graduate Honours degree in Pharmacology.  Margaret also has a post graduate degree in information technology.  She is actively involved with teaching of programs pertaining to both prescription drugs and over-the-counter products and in the differential diagnosis and management of minor disease states.

Margaret has given numerous lectures and workshops in the area of managing patient medication review in Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales, and has extensive insight into the medication management issues faced in this area. Audiences include undergraduates, post graduates (in both pharmacy and other professions), community pharmacists, nurses and doctors.

Margaret is a contributor to national Australian pharmacy journals in the area of continuing education.  She has written four books on drug information for community pharmacists, one of which is an approved text for Pharmacy Practice undergraduates at four universities in Australia and one in New Zealand.  Her articles have been translated into three different languages for use by community pharmacists.

Since 1991, she has been a regular contributor to the Australian Pharmacist, the premier journal for pharmacists in Australia and has written many articles during this time.  These articles have CPE points attached to them for pharmacists undertaking continuing professional education assessment. Margaret has also written for pharmacy trade journals, Your Pharmacy and Retail Pharmacy and has written over 100 articles for these journals since 1986. These include many articles on drug interactions, and drugs for the treatment of conditions experienced by the elderly.

She has been invited nationally and internationally to lecture to community pharmacists where assessments have consistently shown that her materials and information provided have been those that attendees have considered most relevant to their practice.

Margaret has developed a number of computer-based pharmacy education aids and is also regularly employed as a community pharmacist.