1. Current Status, Position

Dr. Eileen Relihan is the Medication Safety Facilitator at St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, a position which involves management of the medication safety programme in the organisation. Shen is also an Adjunct Clinicial Fellow for the School of Pharmacy, Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and lectures at both undergraduate and postgraduate level for the TCD Schools of Pharmacy, Medicine and Nursing.   

2. Education

She studied Pharmacy at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and qualified as a pharmacist in 1999. She received a MSc. in Hospital Pharmacy in 2002 and a PhD in Pharmacy Practice in 2011, both also awarded by TCD. In 2017, she undertook a Diploma in Leadership and Quality with the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland. 

3. Research Area

Her research focuses on medication safety in tertiary care. Her PhD focused on the topic of the design and implementation of a medication safety programme in an acute hospital setting.

4. Conflict of interest

None