David Wright University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
David Wright registered as a pharmacist in 1991 and practiced for 1 year before embarking on a PhD to evaluate the role of the pharmacist in providing clinical pharmacy services within care homes. He became a lecturer in pharmacy practice in 1996. He was a practicing pharmacist until 2015. His research interest is in medicines optimization in the older person with a special interest in medicines administration in people with dysphagia. He has developed expertise in trial design with a particular interest in the delivery of feasibility studies. He is the co-principal investigator on the Care Homes Independent Pharmacist Prescriber Study (CHIPPS), and principal investigator for the study in East Anglia. CHIPPS derived from research undertaken with Richard Holland to determine the value of multidisciplinary medication review in care homes and with Christine Bond to test the concept of a pharmacist prescriber assuming responsibility for the management of chronic pain in primary care.
