Niamh McMahon
Hopsital Pharmacy
Niamh McMahon
Adj. Assoc.Prof. Niamh McMahon, B.Sc. (Pharm.), M.Sc. (Clinical Pharm.), MPSI, MRPharmS (Consultant)
Email: nmcmahon@tcd.ie
Phone: +353-1-896-3181
Location: Panoz Institute, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland / St. James’s Hospital, Ireland.
Course Director, M.Sc in Hospital Pharmacy
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Niamh is Course Director for the MSc.in Hospital Pharmacy, Trinity College Dublin, and Chief 2 Pharmacist, St. James’s Hospital Dublin. She has worked for >25 years in hospital clinical practice in both Ireland and the UK, in a variety of leadership and management roles, including >15 years in Care of Older Persons.
The MSc in Hospital Pharmacy won the Gradireland Postgraduate Course of the Year in 2018 in the Health Sciences Division, and Niamh won the Dean of Health Sciences award, for Outstanding Teaching in Professional Practice in 2019.
Niamh is the pharmacist representative for the HSE National Care Programme for Older Persons & a founding member and former Chairperson of the Special Interest Group for the Care of Older Persons, Hospital Pharmacists’ Association, Ireland (HPAI).
She successfully completed Consultant Pharmacist Credentialing in her chosen specialty, Medicine for the Elderly, through the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain in 2022 – becoming the first pharmacist based in the Republic of Ireland to be awarded this status. Consultant Pharmacist Credentialing provides formal recognition for an expert level of practice across five domains: person-centred care and collaboration, professional practice, leadership and management, education, and research.
Niamh is passionate about working collaboratively to improve quality of care and outcomes for older persons. Her current research interests are to find innovative ways to address polypharmacy & potentially inappropriate prescribing in older people, including addressing medicines-related falls risk, and deprescribing in the frail older person, and also development of advanced practice credentialing.