1. Current Status, Position

She is currently Lead Pharmacist-Transplantation and Renal Services at the Oxford Transplant Centre and together with the renal pharmacy team they deliver a clinically led, patient orientated pharmaceutical service to renal and transplant patients under care. As a transplant centre they perform over 200 transplants per year – kidney, pancreas, islet and small bowel transplants.

2. Education

She qualified as a pharmacist in 1989 and then undertook a Post-graduate diploma in Clinical Pharmacy. She started working full time in the area of transplantation in 1996 and has strived to develop and establish a patient centred pharmacy service. She completed her MSc in Advanced Pharmacy Practice with The School of Pharmacy, University of London in 2009. She is also Vice-Chair of the UK Renal Pharmacy Group. She was a member of the Expert External Reference Group for the Department of Health – Renal National Service Framework (NSF). She was also co-chair of an associated group which reviewed management of medicines for renal services and led to publication of Medicines Management resource.

3. Research Area

Mrs. Devaney has authored several articles on drug use in transplantation and written practical guidance for pharmacists on how the reclassification of kidney disease impacts on dosing adjustments. In clinical practice her key areas of interest are:

• The role of the pharmacist in the transplant assessment of HIV positive patients
• Medication adherence and individualized “considerate” prescribing
• Generic immunosuppression