Personal statement
Marion is a qualified pharmacist who graduated from The Robert Gordon's University with a BSc in Pharmacy followed by a MSc in Clinical Pharmacy at the Universtiy of Strathclyde. She obtained an Advanced Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy Teaching from the University of Leeds.
She holds a senior joint appointment with the NHS in Scotland as Chief Pharmacist, Public Health and intelligence, National Services Scotland which provides national and specialist services across Scotland. In 2008 Marion took up a 50% appointment as Professor of Pharmacy Practice in SIPBS.
Research interests
Marion's research portfolio is focused on development of a robust evidence base to support the safe, effective and person centred care through use of medicines and other health technologies. Key areas of interest:
- Pharmacoepidemiology
- Pharmacy Practice
- Healthcare Interventions
Professional activities
- Scanning technology within community pharmacies: a friend or foe?
- Contributor
- 13/1/2021
- Upskilling and intensification of work; are robots the answer?
- Contributor
- 22/8/2019
- Safety climate within primary care: development and psychometric evaluation of a community pharmacy tool.
- Contributor
- 30/4/2014
More professional activities
Projects
- Scottish Pharmacist Clinical Academic Fellows Academic Year 1
- Bennie, Marion (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2022
- Primary Care Pharmacy Resilience: Pharmacotherapy Service in Time of COVID-19
- Newham, Rosemary (Principal Investigator) Bennie, Marion (Principal Investigator) Dunlop, Emma (Researcher) Weir, Natalie Mcfadyen (Researcher) Ferguson, Aimee Margaret Denver (Researcher)
- To explore the effect of COVID-19 on pharmacy teams working within General Practice to deliver the pharmacotherapy service. This project considers the pharmacotherapy service’s evolution due to changing practice – and priorities – under COVID-19.
- 04-Jan-2021
- Implementation of the pharmacotherapy service within primary care: health outcomes evaluation
- Newham, Rosemary (Co-investigator) Bennie, Marion (Principal Investigator) Weir, Natalie Mcfadyen (Researcher) Dunlop, Emma (Researcher) Ferguson, Aimee Margaret Denver (Researcher)
- This work focuses on developing an outcomes framework for a Scottish context to allow the impact of the pharmacotherapy service to be evaluated.
- 01-Jan-2021
- HEPMA ( Hospital Electronic Prescribing & Administration system ) adoption within a health system - demonstrating the benefits
- Bennie, Marion (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2022
- Cardiovascular disease and COVID-19: using UK-wide linked routine healthcare data to address the impact of cardiovascular disease on COVID-19 and the impact of COVID-19 on cardiovascular diseases
- Bennie, Marion (Principal Investigator) Kurdi, Amanj (Co-investigator) Kavanagh, Kimberley (Co-investigator)
- 16-Jan-2020 - 16-Jan-2021
- Scottish Patient Safety Programme: NSAID carebundle rollout
- Newham, Rosemary (Co-investigator) Weir, Natalie Mcfadyen (Researcher) Bennie, Marion (Principal Investigator)
- 06-Jan-2020
More projects
Address
Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
Robertson Wing
Robertson Wing
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