Research output per year
Research output per year
Dr, PhD, MClinPharm, GradDipBiostat, GradCertDMEd, GradCertHProfEd, GStat, GAICD, FPS, She/her
The University of Western Australia (M315,M570), 35 Stirling Highway,
6009 Perth
Australia
Accepting PhD and other Higher Degree by Research Students. View current PhD/HDR research project opportunities at https://researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/projects
Dr Amy Page is a consultant pharmacist and qualified biostatistician. Her vision is to reduce medicines-related harm while balancing symptom control to align with individualised treatment goals for older people to improve well-being. She undertakes knowledge creation and translation through implementation, practitioner development, communication and media, engagement with professional bodies and policy for sustained impact on pharmacy practice.
She has received over $5.5 million in funding and published over 140 articles including more than 100 peer reviewed papers. She has presented on medicine safety and the quality use of medicines for older people nationally and internationally. Her research is frequently profiled in the professional and lay media.
She has worked in patient-facing roles across many settings including community, hospital, medication reviews, Aboriginal community-controlled health service and general practice. She was one of the first Australian pharmacists to work within a general practice to optimise medicines use among people with multimorbidty and polypharmacy. She was the inaugural Lead Pharmacist Rehabilitation Aged and Community Care Services at Alfred Health leading pharmacy services at the subacute campus, where she held a senior management position within Alfred Health's pharmacy team for four years. She continues to work in community pharmacy and undertake medication reviews.
Dr Page has been recognised by the Australian Journal of Pharmacy as one of the most influential people in pharmacy since 2017, most recently in December 2022. She was honoured to receive the 2022 Vice Chancellor's Early Career Researcher award and the 2023 School Research Impact and Innovation award. She is short listed for the 2024 Research Australia's Health Service Research award. She was awarded the PSA Young Pharmacist of the Year in 2015 and the Pharmacist of the Year in 2024.
Dr Page is the inaugural director of the Centre for Optimisation of Medicines at UWA's School of Allied Health. She is the Course Director for the Master of Advanced Clinical Practice delivered in the School of Allied Health and the associated qualifications: Graduate Certificate in Quality Use of Medicines and Prescribing and the Graduate Certificate in Advanced Medicines Management.
She has held multiple policy, governance and regulatory positions nationally and internationally. She served on the Council of Pharmacy Schools as a deputy councillor and worked on national standards including the NPS Prescribing Competencies, the APC Aged Care and Medication Management Review accreditation standards and the APC Pharmacist Prescribing accreditation standards. She consulted on the International Pharmacy Federation's Global Competency Framework. She was a practitioner member of the Pharmacy Board of Australia until 2024. She has served on the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia's state branch committee since 2017 where she is the current state president and serves on the national board of directors.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
PhD
Award Date: 23 Oct 2017
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference presentation/ephemera › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Page, A. (Investigator 01) & Etherton-Beer, C. (Investigator 02)
NHMRC National Health and Medical Research Council
19/03/18 → 18/03/19
Project: Research
Page, A. (Investigator 01), Clifford, R. (Investigator 02), Etherton-Beer, C. (Investigator 03) & Potter, K. (Investigator 04)
Pharmaceutical Society of Western Australia
2/08/13 → 31/12/14
Project: Research
Page, A. (Investigator 01), Etherton-Beer, C. (Investigator 02), Clifford, R. (Investigator 03), Potter, K. (Investigator 04), McLachlan, A. (Investigator 05), Ryan, C. (Investigator 06), Le Cras, A. (Investigator 07) & Parekh, N. (Investigator 08)
Dementia Collaborative Research Centres
1/07/16 → 30/06/17
Project: Research
Hill, A.-M. (Investigator 01), Morris, M. (Investigator 02), Flicker, L. (Investigator 03), Etherton-Beer, C. (Investigator 04), McPhail, S. (Investigator 05), Page, A. (Investigator 06), Francis-Coad, J. (Investigator 07), Said, C. (Investigator 08), Heng, H. (Investigator 09), Bulsara, M. (Investigator 10), Bulsara, C. (Investigator 11), Semciw, A. (Investigator 12) & Shorr, R. (Investigator 13)
Medical Research Future Fund MRFF
4/03/24 → 28/02/27
Project: Research
Page, A. (Investigator 01)
Department of Health (Western Australia)
1/01/24 → 7/06/25
Project: Research
Page, A. (Recipient), 2023
Prize: Award
Page, A. (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Award
Page, A. (Reviewer)
Activity: Editorial work or peer review of publications › Editorial activity
Page, A. (Reviewer)
Activity: Editorial work or peer review of publications › Editorial activity
Page, A. (Reviewer)
Activity: Editorial work or peer review of publications › Editorial activity
Page, A. (Reviewer)
Activity: Editorial work or peer review of publications › Editorial activity
15/07/19
38 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
Mill, D. (Participant), Page, A. (Participant), Johnson, J. (Participant), D’Lima, D. (Participant), Lee, K. (Participant), Salter, S. (Participant), Seubert, L. (Participant) & Clifford, R. (Participant)
Impact: Public policy Impacts
Page, A. (Participant), Lee, K. (Participant), Clifford, R. (Participant), Mill, D. (Participant), Salter, S. (Participant), Seubert, L. (Participant), Johnson, J. (Participant) & D’Lima, D. (Participant)
Impact: Public policy Impacts