About the Authors: Dr. Russell Greene gained his BPharm from Nottingham University
in 1967 and did his pre-reg in Elizabeth Garrett Anderson hospital in London. After
working in hospital and community pharmacy in the UK and abroad he gained an
MSc by research from Bath University in 1973 for a thesis on Drug
administration in psychiatric hospitals.
Following
a further spell abroad, including a year setting up a pharmacy training course
at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji, in 1978 he became the Principal
pharmacist for Education and training for the NWThames Regional Health
Authority.
He
joined Chelsea College in 1980 to teach clinical pharmacy and moved with it to
King's College in 1987. He gained his PhD in 1993 for a thesis on Prescription
monitoring by com-munity pharmacists and the role of medication records. He
became senior lecturer in 1995 and head of the Pharmacy Practice group in 1998.
He was the M Pharm Programme director until 2006, and his principal teaching
responsibility has been organizing courses in pathology and therapeutics.
Dr. Norman Harris entered Pharmacy In 1947 following National
Service, having been an industrial chemist in metal processing and the food
Industry.
As
apprentice at a very traditional London pharmacy, which dispensed for nearby
embassies, he learned full-range extemporaneous dispen- sing, including
suppositories, pessaries and silvered pills from prescriptions written in 1910!
At
Chelsea School of Pharmacy, he acquired the Chemist and Druggist and
Pharmaceutical Chemist Diplomas, a BPharm degree, and won the Pharmaceutical
Society's Pereira Medal. A spell at Imperial College led to a PhD in
Microbiology and the Imperial College Diploma and Fellowship of the
Pharmaceutical Society followed in 1954.
On
the staff at Chelsea, he taught Pharma- cognosy (briefly), Pharmaceutics
(Dispensing, Microbiology, Radiopharmacy), becoming Reader in Pharmaceutics and
Head of Clinical Pharmacy, Honorary Pharmacist at Hammersmith Hospital and
Chairman of the Oxford Region Pharmacy Advisory Committee. He was Post-graduate
Tutor for the North-West Thames Region for many years and retired in 1984. |
