1. Current status, position:

Head of Centre of Academic Primary Care at the University of Aberdeen.

2. Education:

Prof. Christine Bond (BPharm (Hons.) , MEd, PhD, FRPharmS, FFPH FRCPE) is Professor of Primary Care (Pharmacy), and Head of Centre of Academic Primary Care, University of Aberdeen. Until recently she was part time Consultant in Pharmaceutical Public Health (NHS Grampian). Also she is Editor of the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, she served as an elected member of the Scottish National Board of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) for 10 years until summer 2009, she has served on several national Research Panels eg the Health Service Research Committee of the Scottish Office, the MRC College of Experts, the RPSGB Pharmacy Practice Research Trust Award panel, the Health Services and Pharmacy Practice Conference Panel. She is deputy chair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain Expert Advisory Panel for Science.

3. Research area:

Prof. Christine Bond has a large portfolio of pharmacy practice research in the contribution of pharmacy to the evidence based cost effective use of medicines (prescribed and ‘OTC’), drug misuse, the community pharmacist-general practitioner interface and the wider health care agenda. She was a member of the SIGN guideline 97 group for ‘Risk estimation and the prevention of cardiovascular disease’.