Kirsten Staff

Registered Pharmacist, Pharmacy Program Director and Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy at UniSA.

Kirsten graduated from Aston University (Birmingham, UK) in 2002 obtaining a First Class Master’s degree in Pharmacy (MPharm). He undertook an internship split between the Royal United Hospital (Bath, UK) and Sainsbury’s Pharmacy Group in Bath where upon registration with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society he became Pharmacy Manager. In 2006 Kirsten commenced a PhD at Kings College London in collaboration with MedPharm Ltd (Guildford, UK) and Transport Pharma (Boston, US). The PhD project investigated the active transport of small ionic complexes across the skin using iontophoresis to enhance wound healing.

Upon completing his PhD Kirsten undertook a role at the University of Hertfordshire (UK) as a Lecturer in Pharmaceutics during which he completed his diploma in Higher Education. Here he coordinated diverse undergraduate courses within the pharmacy program including Medicines and Pharmacy Practice, Pharmaceutical and Medical Microbiology and Pharmacy Business Management.

Kirsten moved to Adelaide during 2010 to undertake a position as Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy at UniSA where he is the director of the professionally accredited pharmacy undergraduate program. Kirsten currently coordinates Pharmacy Practice 1 and Advanced Therapeutics and continues to teach dermatology across the program. Current projects include biosimilar medicine literature reviews on behalf of the Department of Health biosimilar awareness initiative and now for GBMA Education under the Biosimilar Education Grant.