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Dr Marjorie C Weiss


Research

Influences on prescribing decisions
Inter-professional boudaries between pharmacists and doctors
Modelling decision-making
Professionalisation of pharmacy
Lay Beliefs of medicines
Challenges to the professional dominance of medicine


Teaching

Social pharmacy - introduction to sociology for pharmacists
Basic research methods
Therapeutics - congestive cardiac failure


Administration

Departmental Seminars
Review of Social Pharmacy Course for the Four-year degree course
Review of full-time Masters in Clinical Pharmacy
Establishment of links with the School of Nursing


Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy (1995), University of Oxford
Master of Science in Social Research Methods (1992), University of Surrey
Master of Science in Clinical Pharmacy (1988), University of London
Further Education Teaching Certificate, City and Guild 730, Crawley College
Member, Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
State of Michigan Pharmacist Licensure
Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy, University of Michigan


Brief Career Details

Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (1996 - present)
Full-time DPhil student, University of Oxford (1992-95)
Full-time Master's student (Social Research Methods), University of Surrey (1991-92)
Clinical Pharmacy Manager, Princess Royal Hospital, Haywards Heath, West Sussex (1988 - 91)
Full-time Master's student (Clinical Pharmacy), University of London (1987 - 88)
Drug Information Pharmacist, Cuckfield Hospital, Haywards Heath, West Susex (1986 - 87)


Selected Recent Publications

Weiss MC and Fitzpatrick R. Challenges to medicine: the case of prescribing. Sociology of Health and Illness 1997; 19: 297-327.

Weiss MC and Cantrill JA. From protocol to guideline? The Pharmaceutical Journal 1997; 258: 834.

Cantrill JA, Weiss MC, Kishida M and Nicolson M. Pharmacists' perceptions and experiences of pharmacy protocols: a step in the right direction? Int J Pharm Pract 1997; 5: 26-32.

Weiss MC, Fitzpatrick R, Scott DK, Goldacre MJ. Pressures on the General Practitioner and Decisions to Prescribe. Family Practice 1996; 13: 432-8.

Weiss MC. How to Influence GPs' Behaviour: The Role of the FHSA Advisor in prescribing. Pharmacy in Practice 1996; 6: 341-2.

Weiss MC. Why prescribing is under pressure - the Health Care Reforms: Pressures on Primary Care Prescribing. Pharmacy in Practice 1996; 6:382-6

Weiss, MC. Clinical Pharmacy: Uncovering the Hidden Dimension. Journal of Social And Administrative Pharmacy 1994; 11: 67-77.

Further Information

Tel: +44(0)161 275 2437
FAX: +44(0)161 275 2396
E-mail: mweiss@fs1.pa.man.ac.uk


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