Gwen has been a community pharmacist for 25 years, taking on various roles throughout her career including senior leadership positions. Her current role focuses on learning and development of pharmacy professionals for a large multiple community pharmacy. This includes the development of clinical, consultation, reflective practice and leadership skills.
She delivers training to enable pharmacists to confidently provide a Travel Vaccination and Health Advice Service in addition to providing this service herself direct to patients in store. She continues to develop her expertise through continued professional development and attending travel conferences.
Gwen’s keen interest in travel medicine stems from her love of adventure travel, exploring countries such as Borneo, Malaysia, Vietnam, Nepal and Tanzania.
She believes community pharmacy provides a great opportunity for patients to access Travel services and finds it rewarding to share her own expertise to develop other professionals in this exciting area of travel health.