About the Author

Beverley Glass

After being awarded her BPharm degree, Beverly completed her internship in a rural community hospital pharmacy practice, a PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and thereafter took up a position as a Principal Research Scientist in the Pharmaceutical Industry. After 2 years in the industry, Beverley entered academia and held positions at the University of Port Elizabeth and Rhodes University in South Africa, teaching in the areas of pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmaceutics and pharmacy practice. During this time, she completed Honours degrees in Chemistry and Business (Marketing). In 1999, she accepted the position of Chair of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at Rhodes University, while maintaining contact with the practice of pharmacy as both an Industrial and Community Pharmacy Consultant as well as an Expert Advisor (Drug Stability and Analytical Chemistry) to the regulatory authority, the Medicines Control Council of South Africa. Beverley joined the School of Pharmacy and Molecular Sciences at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia in 2001 to assist in the development of the curriculum and establishment of the integrated pharmacy programme, which commenced in 1999, as an Associate Professor in Pharmaceutics and Pharmacy Management. Beverley was appointed as the Foundation Chair of Pharmacy at James Cook University in 2005 and Head of the Discipline of Pharmacy and is currently acting Head of the School of Pharmacy and Molecular Sciences.

Beverley is actively involved in teaching across a broad range of Pharmacy areas and has several Honours and Postgraduate students in her research programme. Professor Glass has a broad research interest in pharmacy practice where she currently researches in the areas of pharmacists and public health, preceptor training, health delivery to complex and underserved populations and expanded practice.   Her research interests are varied and focus on the stability of drugs, their storage shelf-life and expiry with special emphasis on the effects of repackaging drugs in dose administration aids. She is particularly interested in the expiry date of drugs and combating the occurrence of fake and counterfeit drugs in developing countries by empowering the local people to take charge of the control of the quality of medicines coming into their countries.