Purple Pen Podcast

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Sinopsis

Education and news for pharmacists, with a focus on Australian clinical pharmacy practice. Supported by the SHPA, Alfred Health and Austin Health. Hosted by Jane and Dan, we provide CPD and news for pharmacists, especially those interested in Australian clinical practice.

Episodios

  • PPP139 - Rheumatic Fever with Dr Jerry Abraham Alex

    12/11/2022 Duración: 36min

    Kristin is joined by Dr Jerry Abraham Alex - a medical registrar from Western Australia. They take an indepth look at Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease.

  • PPP138 - Analgesic Stewardship with Thuy Bui

    15/10/2022 Duración: 28min

    Kristin is joined by Thuy Bui, Lead Pharmacist - Analgesic Stewardship (AGS) & Perioperative Services at Alfred Health in Victoria to discuss the role of analgesic stewardship. In their discussion they address the importance of appropriate acute pain management, some of the clinical considerations for analgesic choice and the role of the perioperative pharmacist. Note: this episode discusses the use of real-time prescription monitoring. The monitoring system and requirements for monitoring vary from state to state. Please refer to information from the jurisdiction where you practice for guidance on when you are required to use real-time prescription monitoring.

  • PPP137 - Monkeypox with Ivette Aguirre and Dr Melanie Bissessor

    24/09/2022 Duración: 31min

    Kristin catches up with Ivette Aguirre and Dr Melanie Bissessor from the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health, to discuss monkeypox. We talk about vaccination, treatment as well as symptoms, screening and diagnosis.

  • PPP136 - Type II Diabetes

    10/09/2022 Duración: 27min

    Kristin is joined by Dr Priya Sumithran, Endocrinologist and Clinician Researcher, to talk about treatment options for the management of type II diabetes.  Priya leads the Obesity Research Group at the University of Melbourne, Department of Medicine (St Vincent’s) and is Head of Obesity Medicine at Austin Health.   *Note Wegovy (semaglutide) was not registered in Australia at the time of recording but has since been registered with the TGA (1st September 2022). PBAC Public Summary Document - Wegovy (semaglutide) - March 2022 consideration

  • Clover the Chloroformist

    13/08/2022 Duración: 31min

    We are joined by anaesthetist A/Prof Christine Ball to discuss her book, The Chloroformist, and more...

  • Culturally Capable Pharmacists with Bronwyn Clark and A/Prof Faye McMillan

    16/07/2022 Duración: 33min

    Kristin speaks to Bronwyn Clark and A/Prof Faye McMillan about how to practice pharmacy in a culturally safe way. We also hear about the Australian Pharmacy Council's Leaders in Indigenous Pharmacy Profession Education (LIPPE) Network. 

  • PPP133 - Sepsis Clinical Care Standard

    29/06/2022 Duración: 39min

    Kristin is joined by Prof Jason Roberts and Dr Carolyn Hullick to discuss the release of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care's new Clinical Care Standard in sepsis - which launches today! Jason will be well known to listeners as a pharmacist from University of Queensland and Metro North. Carolyn is a Clinical Director at the Commission and the Chair of the Sepsis Clinical Care Standards at the Commission. Visit the ACSQHC to find out more and read the new Standard

  • PPP132 - Toxicology with Naren Gunja

    05/06/2022 Duración: 31min

    Kristin and Dan are joined by Associate Professor Naren Gunja - a clinical and forensic toxicologist from Sydney Medical School at the University of Sydney.   We discuss Naren’s “top 5 issues” in toxicology - covering a wide range of topics including paracetamol, methylene blue, benzodiazepines and more.

  • PPP131 - Interstitial Lung Disease with Assoc Prof Nicole Goh

    08/05/2022 Duración: 38min

    Kristin is joined by Associate Professor Nicole Goh to talk Interstitial Lung Disease. Nicole is a respiratory and sleep physician at the Alfred and Austin Hospitals in Melbourne.

  • PPP130 - Bipolar Disorder with Professor Ian Hickie

    23/04/2022 Duración: 43min

    We are joined by Professor Ian Hickie, a Professor of Psychiatry and Co-Director of Health and Policy at the Brain Mind Centre. He last spoke to the podcast on treatment resistance depression. This time we discuss the challenges of bipolar disorder diagnosis, risk factors and the therapeutics used in treatment, especially the Australian wonder drug Lithium. 

  • PPP129 - Asthma Update with Dr Emma Gray

    26/03/2022 Duración: 34min

    Kristin chats to Dr Emma Gray, consultant respiratory physician and visiting medical officer at Royal Prince Alfred. She is also a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney. There have been some big changes in asthma management in recent years, and Emma talks us through the key points.

  • PPP128 - Oral Cancers with Leanne Teoh and Sophie Beaumont

    27/02/2022 Duración: 43min

    Kristin caught up with Leanne Teoh, a pharmacist, dentist and research fellow from the University of Melbourne and Sophie Beaumont, head of Dental Oncology at the Peter Mac to discuss all things oral cancer. We learn about diagnosis, presentation, vaccination and red flags - as well as the critical value of saliva! Sophie recommends the Oral cancer hub as a great learning resource: https://www.oralcancerhub.org.au/

  • PPP127 - COVID19 in Kids with Dr Brendan McMullan

    07/02/2022 Duración: 34min

    We’re back for 2022 and now that’s school is in session we spoke to Prof Brendan McMullan about COVID19 in children. We discussed what COVID19 is like for kids, vaccination, current treatments and transmission. 

  • PPP126 - Treatment Resistant Depression with Prof Ian Hickie

    19/12/2021 Duración: 36min

    In our last episode for 2021, Kristin chats with Professor Ian Hickie, co-Director of the Brain and Mind Centre at the University of Sydney. We chat about treatment-resistant depression and learn all about the “happy accident'“ of esketamine.

  • Age-related macular degeneration

    20/11/2021 Duración: 25min

    Dan is joined by Professor Robyn Guymer AM from the Centre for Eye Research in Australia to discuss Age-related macular degeneration (AMD). 

  • PPP124 : ADHD with Prof Dave Coghill

    31/10/2021 Duración: 34min

    We’re back! And Dan is joined by Professor Dave Coghill, a Child Psychiatrist and  Chair of Developmental Mental Health at the University of Melbourne. We discuss ADHD - an overview of its epidemiology and diagnosis, as well as existing and emerging treatments.

  • PPP123 - Hyperbaric Medicine with Conjoint Professor Michael Bennett AM

    09/10/2021 Duración: 58min

    Kristin caught up with Conjoint Professor Michael Bennett AM (Academic Head, Wales Anaesthesia and Dept. Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine Prince of Wales Clinical School) to discuss Hyperbaric Medicine. It is used to treat decompression illness, carbon monoxide poisoning, necrotising infections, soft tissue & bony radiation injury and chronic non healing wounds.

  • PPP122 - Infections in Pregnancy with Dr Nisha Khot

    18/09/2021 Duración: 34min

    Dan and Jane caught up with our friend Dr Nisha Khot, who is the Clinical Director of Obstetrics at Djerriwarrh Health Service in Victoria. We discuss the screening, management and impact of a wide variety of infections in pregnancy, including CMV, syphilis, COVID-19 and GBA. We briefly discuss listeria, to Nisha’s chagrin. You should definitely follow Nisha on twitter

  • PPP121 - Clinical Microbiology with Dr Indy Sanduradura

    21/08/2021 Duración: 43min

    In a bumper episode, Kristin talks with ID physician and clinical microbiologist with Westmead Hospital and the Institute Of Clinical Pathology And Medical Research (ICPMR) Dr Indy Sandaradura. They discuss all things clinical microbiology, from how tests are run to how microbiologists decide what to report, in terms of sensitivities and positive results. Indy helps us understand why we still do Gram staining, first developed by Danish scientist Hans Christian Gram in 1884.

  • PPP120 - Orbital and Periorbital Cellulitis with Dr David Woo

    31/07/2021 Duración: 24min

    Kristin caught up with Dr David Woo, an Ophthalmic and Oculoplastics surgeon from the Sight Foundation at the Sydney Eye Hospital and the Sydney CBD eye clinic. We chat about orbital and periorbital cellulitis and other serious eye infections - including the red flags that differentiate these from common eye infections. To find out more about Dr David, visit his website

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