Personal profile
Biography
Dr Ahsan Saleem is a Research Fellow in Medication Management and Patient Safety with the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Monash University.
Ahsan is a pharmacist by training, holds an entry-to-practice PharmD and a PhD in health literacy and quality use of medicines, and has experience in research, teaching, and community and clinical pharmacy.
Ahsan is a multiple-methods researcher and has expertise in quantitative and qualitative research, systematic reviews, clinical trials, codesign, implementation research, and validation of patient-reported outcome measures.
Research interests
Ahsan's research agenda is to improve medication use and safety, health literacy, and health outcomes in older adults and culturally and linguistically diverse people, and enhance the quality of care delivered to people from both these groups.
Ahsan's research interests include aged care, medication safety, health literacy, medication communication, deprescribing, frailty, pain management, quality of care, and translating evidence into practice.
Ahsan is open to research collaborations and associate supervision opportunities in any of these research areas or related topics.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Queensland
External positions
Visiting Researcher, Barwon Health
Research area keywords
- Residential aged care
- quality use of medicines
- medication safety
- medication communication
- health literacy
- deprescribing
- frailty
- pain management
- quality of care
- pharmacy practice
- translating evidence into practice