Dr. Kevin Murphy is a registered Pharmacist and Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice in the School of Pharmacy, University College Cork. Kevin undertook his BPharm degree at University College Cork and qualified as a Pharmacist in 2008. He worked in community pharmacy providing pharmaceutical care to a diverse patient population. He began his research journey with a PhD in 2011 focusing on benzodiazepine misuse. After graduation, he served as Cork site Project Manager for the Optimizing Therapy to Prevent Avoidable Hospital Admissions in Multimorbid Older Adults (OPERAM) trial investigating the benefit of pharmacotherapy optimisation, including the use of an electronic recommendation system, in reducing drug-related hospital admissions. During this time, he gained experience in coordination, recruitment, analysis, and reporting in an international multi-centre randomised controlled trial.
Since he took up the Lecturer position in 2018, he teaches on modules at undergraduate and postgraduate level in the School of Pharmacy and was a regular guest lecturer at the University of Limerick. His research interests are in reducing the harmful effects of medicines in older persons and patients receiving cancer treatment, as well as demonstrating the benefits of expanding Pharmacist roles to patients, other healthcare professionals, and the healthcare system. In addition to his teaching and research, he is currently Deputy Chair of the Social Research Ethics Committee at University College Cork.
