1. Current Status, Position

Professor of Pharmacy Practice, School of Pharmacy & Life Sciences, Robert Gordon University, Schoolhill, Aberdeen, Scotland.

2. Education

• PgCert in Tertiary Level Teaching Methods, Robert Gordon University
• BSc (Honours 1st class) Pharmacy, Robert Gordon’s Institute of Technology
• MSc Clinical Pharmacology, University of Aberdeen
• PhD, Robert Gordon University
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

3. Research Area

Non-medical prescribers are experienced healthcare professionals trained and qualified to prescribe either in a supplementary or independent role. Under current UK legislation, suitably qualified pharmacists, nurses and optometrists may practise as supplementary or independent prescribers while physiotherapists, podiatrists and radiographers are limited to supplementary prescribing. Prof. Stewart has extensive experience of the education and research evaluation of non-medical prescribers, particularly pharmacists, and leads the Prescribing Research Group at Robert Gordon University where they have published widely in this area. Then he is involved in other areas of pharmacy practice including pharmacovigilance, pharmacoepidemiology and reclassification of medicines.