Indispensable Episode 18 Neurodiversity | Navigating a diagnosis

Yvette Anderson graduated from Charles Sturt University in 2005 and has progressed her pharmacist career with experience in community pharmacy, private hospital, aged care, consultancy, and public hospital practice. Yvette has qualifications in Mental Health First Aid, Asthma Management from Asthma…

Mental Health | How are you, really?

Kayla Lee is a practising community pharmacist and pharmacy owner at Capital Chemist Braidwood. After completing a Master of Pharmacy at the University of Canberra, Kayla went on to complete a Graduate Certificate in Mental Health Practice which fuelled her passion for mental health service deliver…

Menopause | A back-firing car

Tahnee Simpson is a community compounding pharmacist and owner of Keperra Compounding Pharmacy in Brisbane. Tahnee became a menopause pharmacist because she wanted to help women understand where they are at in their life stage, what’s happening with their hormones, and how it relates to how they ar…

Chronic Pain | Relief, Mobility and the 'A' team

Nicolette Ellis is an Advanced Pharmacist Advisor for Queensland Health and senior clinical pharmacist for Beyond Pain, an interdisciplinary persistent pain videoconferencing program. A regular presenter and national trainer, she is passionate about improving access to multidisciplinary care for th…

Period Pride | Why we need to talk about it

Allie Xu was born and raised in a fourth-generation medical family in Shanghai, China, and moved to Australia when she was 15 years old. She's a registered pharmacist and holistic health and life coach specializing in emotional intelligence and the mind-body connection. Allie is currently completi…

Illicit | Substances in use

Sam Keitaanpaa is a NT born, raised and educated pharmacist currently working in community pharmacy and undertaking his PhD in access to smoking cessation medicines and is the Chair of the Health Providers Alliance Northern Territory as well as the Vice President of the SA/NT Branch of the Pharmace…

Abortion | Medical Termination of pregnancy

Episode 12 Abortion | Medical Termination of pregnancy In this episode, the Indispensable Pharmacist provides information about medical termination of pregnancy (MTOP) and what to expect. MTOP is a safe and effective procedure to end pregnancy (widely used in Australia since 2013 and for decades o…

Indispensable Episode BONUS Who is the Indispensable Pharmacist?

In this short bonus episode, you find out more about the Indispensable Pharmacist and how PharmOnline came to be.

Sleep Apnoea | Cutting through the noise

Nhan Do is a pharmacist from Perth, WA. He was born in Vietnam, completed high school in Singapore and his pharmacy degree in Perth. He was a very active student during university as the president of the West Australian Pharmacy Student Association (WAPSA) and board member on the National Pharmacy …

Vaccination | Whooping Cough

Dr Fei Sim is a Senior Lecturer and the Coordinator of International Engagement in the School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences at Curtin University, Western Australia. Fei holds a Doctoral degree in Pharmacy, is a practising pharmacist, a community pharmacy owner, a pharmacist immuniser and an A…