1. Current Status, Position

Ms Hynes is currently a Senior Pharmacist at Saint John of God Hospital in Dublin. She is responsible for medicines information and looks after the patients on the acute mental health ward. She is also an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Adjunct Lecturer/Associate Professor at the University College Dublin.

2. Education

Ms Hynes studied pharmacy at Trinity College, Dublin and registered as a pharmacist in 2008. In 2013, Caroline became one of the second Irish pharmacists to become a credentialled member of the College of Mental Health Pharmacy in the UK. In 2016 she obtained a Masters in psychiatric pharmacy practice from Aston University in the UK.

3. Research Area

Ms Hynes's research focuses on side-effects of antipsychotic medicines and medicines optimisation in those with a serious mental health problem.

4. Conflict of interest: none