Dr Efi Mantzourani

Biography

Current Appointments

Post-18 Education and Qualifications

Membership of Professional Bodies

2020         Faculty of Clinical Informatics

2013         Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

2010         Registered as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council (formerly Royal Pharmaceutical Society of                         Great Britain – member since 2005)

2005         Registered as a member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (now RPS)

2002         Registered as a member of the Panhellenic Pharmaceutical Society

Honours and awards

• Antibiotic Guardian Award, Public Health England, June 2019. Innovation and Technology - winner: Using an IT platform in community pharmacies in Wales to support an NHS funded sore throat test and treat service
• Digital Innovation and Excellence in use of Technology in Pharmacy Practice, NHS Digital, April 2018 – winner: Choose Pharmacy
• Health Services Research and Pharmacy Practice Conference, April 2015. Poster presentation winner: Exploring stakeholders’ perceptions of the Common Ailments Scheme (CAS) in community pharmacies in Wales
• International Pharmacy Education Symposium, July 2015. People’s choice award for poster presentation: Pharmacy students’ views on medication adherence

Professional memberships

• General Pharmaceutical Council
• Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Fellow of the Higher Education

Publications

Teaching

My continuing locum work and mixed clinical and scientific background help me understand the challenges surrounding clinical and professional practice and informs my teaching and scholarly activity; such integration fosters development of students as competent and confident reflective professionals.

Following appointment, the education I deliver is guided by the frameworks for education and teaching including the GPhC outcomes for initial education and training of pharmacists, vision, values and objectives of Cardiff University as expressed in the University’s strategy document, the UK professional standards framework, and also teaching and qualifications framework for Wales. My teaching is underpinned by contemporary research findings and evidence-based resources such as the Higher Education Academy enhancing quality in teaching and placement education systematic review series.

Since my 2-year secondment to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society as a Professional Development Pharmacist (2018-2020), I have been the Module Leader for the new postgraduate Triage and Treat of Acute Conditions course, informing the development of the CPD portfolio of the School, guided by frameworks for post-registration pharmacy education. The module has been co-designed with practitioners and experts in the field.

In my role as the Lead of Placement-Based Learning, prior to my RPS secondment, I had been managing all aspects of the design, implementation, accreditation and student experience of the Undergraduate Placement-Based Education of the Master of Pharmacy degree; this included the scoping, development, coordination and quality assurance of novel placement schemes receiving national recognition, a key area in the School’s successful re-accreditation event and interim re-accreditation visit, 2015 and 2018 respectively. In 2015, I led the introduction of the newly designed Professional Development modules in the curriculum, following guidance provided by the Quality Assurance Agency UK Quality Code for Higher Education (2012). I was Module Leader for the modules in all four years of the curriculum between 2015-2018 (u), informing the development of reflective practice and Continuing Professional Development, in alignment with standards for pharmacy professionals. As part of a team in 2014, I conceptualised and integrated a Personal Development Portfolio for our undergraduate students, with a format very similar to the newly introduced revalidation portfolio for accreditation of pharmacy professional with the GPhC.

To ensure appropriate integration of all my initiatives in the Cardiff undergradate and postgraduate taugh courses, I have successfully employed continuous circles of action research, a methodology that will be needed in the development and evaluation of the competency framework. I have published a number of papers in peer-reviewed journals to demonstrate application of action research in pharmacy education and have also presented my work in national and international conferences.

Research interests

Dr Efi Mantzourani comes from a medicinal chemistry background having completed an MSc in Molecular Modelling in Cardiff and a PhD in Medicinal Chemistry in Thessaloniki. She went to practice as a pharmacist in the UK in 2005, and was appointed as a lecturer in Pharmacy Practice in 2011. Since then she has been deleloping collaborative relationships with a range of stakeholders in primary and secondary care as well as the third sector. In the health services areas of research focus on technology-enabled provision of services. Examples include medication management and cost-analysis of medication wastage from Medication Administration Record in care homes; discharge from hospital and the role of Discharge Advice Letters in a seeming transition and integration into primary care; translating research from service evaluation projects on the Choose Pharmacy Application into practice, such as the Discharge Medicines Review and Common Ailment Scheme. Currently she is involved in the evaluation of the first NHS funded Sore Throat Test & Treat service that uses Point-of-Care-Technology to optimise antimicrobial supply in primary care.

 Public Engagement

• International Federation of Pharmacists. Sore Throat Management in the Community: Guide for Pharmacists, November 2022 “Triage, decision making and referral” Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsW-U9pj7vs&list=PLXg_1uVJPtYAWdAB84gvrs0YwY9muxzFD&index=3&ab_channel=InternationalPharmaceuticalFederation
• The renal transormation project for a healthier Wales: and independent evaluation. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MsowjngIv0&ab_channel=SBUHBRenalMedicinesService
• Video developed by RB Professional, sponsored by Reckitt Benckiser, 2020 “Understanding the risk of emerging bacterial resistance to over the counter antibiotics in topical sore throat medicines” Available at https://www.rbprofessional.com/s/event/a0P4J000007vxoaUAA/understanding-the-risk-of-emergingbacterial-resistance-to-over-thecounter-anti
• Health and Care Research Wales, Let’s talk Research, Cardiff, July 2019. “Your Pharmacist will See you Now”
• Over 50s programme, John Reynold Centre, Llanrumney, Cardiff, May 2018. “The Role of the Pharmacist in Modern Healthcare”
• Ashley House Youth Club (Torfaen), January 2018. “How can the pharmacist help me?”
• West Monmouth High School (Torfaen), Traveller’s Provision, January 2018. “What can the pharmacists do for us – we don’t have records!”
• Young Adult Carers “Expect Us” Breakfast Event (Carers Trust), April 2016. “Pharmacists are not scary!”

Invited editorials and newsletters

Supervision

Past projects