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Tania Jones is a Lecturer in Pharmacy within 麻豆传媒 Pharmacy School.

Tania's career spans over 20 years in clinical and academic practice, with extensive experience in hospital and GP pharmacy roles.

Tania became an independent prescriber in 2009, specialising in pain management and anaesthetics. Her clinical expertise is primarily in pain, surgery and anaesthetics, but also has interest in chronic disease management and diseases of ageing.

Tania has worked for hospitals in Northumbria and Gateshead NHS Trusts and also in general practice, where she worked for Rosmellyn GP surgery in Cornwall, conducting medication reviews, prescribing acute and chronic medicines and conducting complex opioid deprescribing for high-risk patients.

Tania has also worked as an academic since 2010, as Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy at Sunderland University. In this post, Tania was appointed to the role of Programme Leader of the postgraduate MSc in Clinical Pharmacy and directed the same course at Hong Kong University SPACE. Tania has worked internationally in pharmacy education at SEGI University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, teaching into the Master of Pharmacy programme, in addition to delivering education in Hong Kong. Tania led a major programme re-design for MSc Clinical Pharmacy at Sunderland University, before moving to 麻豆传媒 in 2021 to take on a Lecturer position in Pharmacy.

Qualifications

• Master of Pharmacy - 2004 (MPharm)
• Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy - 2007 (PGDip)
• Practice Certificate in Pharmacist Prescribing - 2009 (IPresc)
• Master of Clinical Pharmacy - 2012 (MSc)
• Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education - 2012 (PGCertHE)
• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy - 2018 (SFHEA)
• Master of Philosophy - 2023 (MPhil)

Currently studying PhD in Pharmacy

Tania's main research interests are related to chronic disease in later life. She is interested in the management of pain, diseases of ageing and their mechanisms, polypharmacy and deprescribing.

Tania's PhD focuses on pain management. The research examines the feasibility of a digital intervention to support deprescribing of high-dose opioids for chronic pain in primary care. Tania manages this nationally-funded NIHR project, co-ordinating over 100 GP practices in the region to test the intervention.

Tania has obtained a research degree of Master of Philosophy (MPhil) with a thesis entitled "Association between circulating microRNAs and musculoskeletal ageing conditions of osteoarthritis, osteoporosis and sarcopenia in humans" at 麻豆传媒.

Tania has secured research grants with colleagues from the Population Sciences Institute at 麻豆传媒 from NIHR BRC, MRC-Versus Arthritis CIMA and developed industry collaborations with HTG Molecular (Phoenix, Arizona) for her microRNA work.

She has supervised undergraduate and postgraduate masters students in conducting research in clinical pharmacy. She is happy to speak to prospective collaborators on projects relating to pharmacy education, opioid management and deprescribing.

Tania holds a postgraduate teaching qualification (PGCertHE) and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). She previously won a teaching award for her conference-style postgraduate teaching.

She supports undergraduate pharmacy students studying the Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) programme and is a personal tutor.

Tania is the pharmacy anatomy lead for cadaveric practical anatomy classes for pharmacy students. Tania also is the Stage 3 Clinical Skills and OSCE Support Lead and is the assessment lead for the Stage 4 portfolio.

• Articles

  • Li CKH, Baker K, Jones T, Coulson E, Roberts A, Birrell F. . Arthritis Care and Research 2021, 73(9), 1306-1311.
  • Jones T, Darzi A, Egger G, Ickovics J, Noffsinger E, Ramdas K, Stevens J, Sumego M, Birrell F. . Future Healthcare Journal 2019, 6(1), 8-16.
  • Birrell F, Goff I, Coulson L, Jones T, Baqir W, O'Brien N, Rapley T, Gray K, Flood B, Russell-Westhead M. . Future Healthcare Journal 2019, 6(Suppl. 1), 77-78.
  • Birrell F, Brady L, Jones T. . Practice Nursing 2018, 29(10), 484-488.
  • Baqir W, Hughes J, Jones T, Barrett S, Desai N, Copeland R, Campbell D, Laverty A. . European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy 2017, 24(1), 30-33.

• Book Chapter

  • Jones T, Baqir W, Birrell F. . In: Ud-Din Babar Z, ed. Pharmacy Practice Research Case Studies. London: Elsevier Science, 2021, pp.207-224.

• Review

  • Jones TL, Esa MS, Li KHC, Krishnan SRG, Elgallab GM, Pearce MS, Young DA, Birrell FN. . Bone 2021, 152, 116068.