Aoife Carolan

Aoife is a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist at Saint John of God Hospital and a PhD candidate at RCSI, Ireland. Her research interests include medicines optimisation and improving physical health outcomes in people with severe mental illness. Aoife has collaborated with colleagues at RCSI and Saint John of God Hospital in the design and Delphi validation of OPTIMISE, a 63-indicator tool to prompt clinicians to optimise medicines and monitoring to protect the physical health of people with severe mental illness.

The focus of Aoife’s PhD is the evaluation of pharmacological interventions to improve cardiometabolic outcomes and the development of theory-based interventions to overcome barriers to implementation.