1. Current Status, Position

Director, Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and UCL School of Pharmacy.

2. Education

Professor Franklin is a registered pharmacist, with a PhD in medication safety. She is a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.

3. Research Area

Professor Franklin has been involved with medication safety research for nearly twenty years, and has published widely on methods for studying errors, and the frequency and causes of prescribing, dispensing and medication administration errors. She has a particular research interest in methodological issues in patient safety and the evaluation of various technologies designed to reduce errors. Her current post combines research, education and training, and clinical practice as a hospital pharmacist. Professor Franklin is an associate editor for the journals BMJ Quality and Safety, and BMC Health Services Research.

Conflict of interest: None