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Professor Michael Dooley

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Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
Co-director, Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences

BPharm Victorian College of Pharmacy
Grad.Dip(Hospital Pharmacy) Victorian College of Pharmacy

Telephone: +61 3 9076 2408
Fax: +61 3 9076 5275
Email: michael.dooley@pharm.monash.edu.au

Research interests

  • Method for dosage prediction in obese patients
  • Drug handling and kinetics
  • Outcome measures for clinical pharmacy services
  • Clinical pharmacy services in disease management
  • Drug therapies for malignancy and symptom control
  • Medication safety and use in the aged

Representative publications

  1. Van De Vreede M, McRae A, Wiseman M, Dooley MJ. Successful introduction of tallman letters to reduce medication selection errors in hospital networks. J Pharm Pract Res 2008; 38:263-270
  2. Van de Vreede M, Wilson S, Dooley MJ. Intravenous potassium chloride prescribing and administration practices in Victoria: an observational study. Med J Aus 2008;189(10):575-577
  3. Dooley MJ, Carrington C. Recommendations for management of patients receiving oral chemotherapy and targeted therapies. As Pac J Clin Oncol 2008; 4:122
  4. Hussainy S, Marriott J, Beattie J, Dooley MJ, Nation RN. Development and Evaluation of an Online Educational Program in Palliative Cancer Care for Australian Community Pharmacists. Supp Care Cancer (in press)
  5. Dooley MJ, Dixon B, Poole SG, Chiang C, Whitlock A, Schneider H. Phenotyping for thiopurine therapy in clinical practice. J Pharm Pract Res 2008; 38:188-90
  6. Dooley MJ, Van De Vreede M, Tan E. Patient-completed medication histories versus those obtained by a pharmacist in a pre-admission clinic. J Pharm Pract Res 2008; 38:216-18
  7. Poole SG, Dooley MJ. Drug Prescribing In:  Palliative Medicine. 1st Ed. 2008. TD Walsh, Philadelphia.  
  8. Tsui M, Wilson DI, Merry H, Phulwani K, Dooley MJ. Implementing a hospital vendor-managed inventory system. J Pharm Pract Res 2008; 38:40-3
  9. Van de Vreede MA, Wilson SG, Dooley MJ. Intravenous potassium chloride use in hospitals: current practice. J Pharm Pract Res 2008; 38:19-22
  10. Stell R, Bonollo M, Fiddes K, Dooley MJ. Successful integration of a clinical pharmacist into a disease management unit. J Pharm Pract Res 2008; 38:132-6
  11. Gilbar PJ, Dooley MJ. Vincristine: Inadvertent intrathecal administration. As Pac J Clin Oncol 2007; 3:59-65
  12. Rice C, Dooley MJ. Development and application of a methodology to qualify workload associated with clinical trials. J Pharm Pract Res 2007; 37: 303-5
  13. Dooley MJ, Van de Vreede M. Proprietary names for glaucoma drugs: potential for error (letter). Lancet 2006; 368:1419-1420
  14. Larizza M, Dooley MJ, Stewart K, Kong DCM. Factors Influencing Adherence to Molecular Therapies in Haematology-Oncology Outpatients J Pharm Pract Res 2006; 355:115-8
  15. Hussainy S, Beattie J, Nation RN, Dooley MJ, Fleming J, Wein S, et.al. Palliative care for patients with cancer: What are the educational needs of community pharmacists? Supp Care Cancer 2006, 14:177-184.
  16. Dooley MJ, Poole SG. Limitations of the Wright formula in estimating renal function. Annals of Oncology 2005; 16:989 – 990.
  17. Choo S, Dooley MJ, Roberts S. Upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage. Aust Prescr 2005; 28:136-9
  18. Yu K, Nation RN, Dooley MJ. Multiplicity of medication safety terms, definitions and functional meansing: when is enough enough? Quality and Safety in Health Care 2005,14(5):358-63.
  19. Worth LJ, Dooley MJ, Seymour JF, Mileshkin L, Slavin MA, Thursky KA. An analysis of the utilisation of chemoprophylaxis against pneumocystis jiroveccii pneumonia in patients with malignancy receiving corticosteroid therapy at a cancer hospital. Br J Cancer 2005; 92:876-872
  20. Dooley MJ et al. Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia Committee of Specialty Practice in Clinical Pharmacy. Standards of Practice for Clinical Pharmacy. J Pharm Pract Res 2005; 35:122-46

External appointments

  • Standards Committee, International Society of Oncology Pharmacy Practitioners
  • Clinical Systems Steering Committee, Department of Human Services, Victoria
  • Medication Management Working Party, Department of Human Services,Victoria
  • NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Patient Safety
  • Victorian Medicines Advisory Committee, Department of Human Services, Victoria
  • International Society of Oncology Pharmacy Practitioners Research Committee