Evidence Synthesis Ireland

Dr Juliette O’Connell

Dr Juliette O’Connell
EPPI-Centre

Defensive Medicine: A Systematic Review Of Qualitative Evidence

Dr Juliette O’Connell is a registered pharmacist and Assistant Professor in Pharmacy Practice in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity College Dublin. Juliette completed her BSc (Pharm) in Trinity College and MPharm in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and qualified as a pharmacist in 2014. She worked in community pharmacy, with a special focus on providing medication services to people with an intellectual disability, prior to commencing her doctoral research in 2016. Her PhD focused on data from the Intellectual Disability Supplement to the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (IDS-TILDA). Her areas of research interest include medication burden and associations with adverse effects, physical function and frailty in older adults with intellectual disability. In addition, Juliette co-ordinates and lectures on several modules within the School of Pharmacy.