Caroline Hynes-Ryan

Caroline is an advanced specialist mental health pharmacist at St John of God Hospital, Honorary Clinical Lecturer at the RCSI School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences and an Adjunct Lecturer/Associate Professor at the UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems. She graduated from the School of Pharmacy, Trinity College Dublin, holds a master’s degree in Psychiatric Pharmacy Practice from Aston University Birmingham and is a credentialed member of the College of Mental Health Pharmacy in the UK.

Caroline recently led the establishment of a medicines information resource – www.YouthMed.Info – which provides accurate and accessible medicines information videos to children and young people taking mental health medicines. Her research interests include health literacy, medicines optimisation and implementation of evidence-based practice in particular for those taking antipsychotic medicines.