McRobbie, Duncan

Affiliation: 

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Country: 

United Kingdom

1. Current Status, Position

Duncan McRobbie is currently Associate Chief Pharmacist – Clinical Services at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in London and is a reader at Kings College London and a visiting professor UCL School of Pharmacy.

2. Education

Duncan McRobbie registered as a pharmacist in 1984 and received his Masters in Clinical Pharmacy from Brighton University in 1993. He is the nominated clinical pharmacist lead for the Pharmaceutical Science Clinical Academic Group within Kings Health Partnership, one of 5 Academic Health Science Centres in the UK. He is a past chair of the United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association and immediate past chair of that organizations Cardiac Pharmacists group. He has represented his profession on various national committees. He is a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

3. Research Area

In his specialist area of clinical practice as Lead Cardiovascular Pharmacist, Duncan works to ensure patients with cardiac disease receive optimal pharmaceutical care. Duncan teaches extensively on coronary heart disease to undergraduates and postgraduates from all professions. His research interests include understanding how medicines can best be optimized for patients and designing and evaluating tools to test pharmacists’ competence to undertake current and future roles. He has published widely in this and other fields of pharmacy practice.