ProfessorBarbara Mintzes
Professor in Pharmacy
Faculty of Medicine and Health
- Professor in PharmacyFaculty of Medicine and Health
LEARNING & TEACHING SUMMARy
Dr Mintzes has taught courses in critical appraisal and systematic review methods at the postgraduate level, and has been a faculty member for Cochrane Collaboration author training workshops, working with the Cochrane Hypertension Review Group. Another teaching area is on the influence of pharmaceutical promotion and ethics of interactions between health professionals and the industry. She has also been involved in a range of continuing professional education workshops for physicians and pharmacists on specific drugs and therapeutic areas, including contraceptives, anti-muscarinic drugs for overactive bladder, bisphosphonates, cholinesterase inhibitors, antidepressants and influenza drugs.
Current graduate student supervision
Janet Currie, PhD student, Interdisciplinary Studies. University of British Columbia Determinants of off-label medication use. Sept 2014 – ongoing [primary supervisor]
Suzie Maginley. MSc student, School of Population and Public Health.University of British Columbia. Social and economic determinants of potentially inappropriate prescribing behaviours. Sept 2014 – ongoing. [committee member]
Teresa Alves, PhD student. Department of Pharmaco-epidemiology & Clinical Pharmacy, Utrecht University. Disease-awareness advertising campaigns. Nov 2010 – ongoing [committee member]