Michael holds a joint appointment as Director of Pharmacy at Alfred Health and Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences of Monash University.His career has focused in the acute healthcare sector and has spanned special clinical roles in oncology through to senior leadership positions within health services. Michael contributes to many National and local professional Committees and working parties related to improving the delivery of quality heath care services. This has included contributions to a range of International, Commonwealth and State forums focusing on issues including hospital and pharmaceutical services, policy and medication management improvements He has been actively involved in a range of research activities from practice based undergraduate projects through to competitively funded NHMRC and ARC collaborative initiatives and post graduate programs. He has extensive clinical experience in oncol

Innovative models of clinical pharmaxcy practice

Quality use of medicines

Medication usage in the elderly

Medication dosing in renal impairment

Strategies to improve medication safety

Medication usage in the acute healthcare setting

• Australian Pharmacy Competency Framework Implementation Tools Working Group

• Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care Medication Reference Group

• Pharmacy Practitioner Development Committee, Australia (PPDC)

• National Prescribing Service Choosing Wisely Reference Group

• SafeScript external Advisory Committee, Department of Health and Human Services

  PBS Project Advisory Board, Commonwealth Department of Health

  Stakeholder Consultative Group Commonwealth Department of Health

  Australian Pharmacy Liaison Forum

• Choosing Wisely Representative Panel, National Prescribing Service

• President, Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia

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Professor Michael Dooley graduated from Monash University Pharmacy Faculty with a Bachelor of Pharmacy. He completed his internship at Box Hill Hospital in Melbourne and became registered as a pharmacist in 1987. He worked primarily in cardiology and oncology initially and completed a Graduate Diploma in Hospital Pharmacy before becoming a senior oncology pharmacist at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. He was appointed Director of Pharmacy at the Centre and then Director of Pharmacy at Alfred Health and Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences of Monash University.