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Ash De Silva

Melbourne,VIC

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Clinical Applications Specialist

Cabrini Health
09.2021 - Current
  • Contribute to Business Technology Services (BTS) leadership by providing support, advice and governance to Cabrini stakeholders
  • Enhance patient care by providing comprehensive clinical application training to healthcare professionals
  • Provide effective change management whilst implementing new, or upgrades to existing clinical systems and conduct post-implementation reviews
  • Lead collaborative clinical and digital health initiatives in documenting current and future state workflows
  • PROJECT: VTE risk assessment documentation and prophylaxis prescribing in eMM (MedChart) to address gaps noted in the Venous Thromboembolism Prevention Clinical Care Standards (2018)
  • PROJECT: Insulin ePrescribing to address clinical risks associated with missed and/or incorrect doses during admission and discharge

Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Oncology & Informatics

Latrobe Regional Hospital
02.2020 - Current
  • Provide clinical governance and support to all hospitals under Gippsland Health Alliance (inc. Bairnsdale Regional Health Service, Bass Coast Health, Central Gippsland Health Service, Gippsland Southern Health Service, Latrobe Regional Hospital and West Gippsland Healthcare Group) for CHARM, GuardRails and EMR
  • Pharmacy Subject Matter Expert for the Altera Sunrise EMR
  • Develop protocols for both Oncology and Non-Oncology treatment regimens in line with eviQ and other clinical references
  • Maintain CHARM treatment pathways and drug library in line with hospital protocols and pharmacy drug formularies
  • Assist the Symptom and Urgent Review Service (SURS) nurses with issues related to medications, compliance, complementary medicines and adverse effects
  • Oncology Nurse Practitioner prescribing mentor
  • Provide clinical ward pharmacist services as required
  • Member of the Latrobe Regional Hospital Clinical Advisory Committee

Locum Pharmacist, ABN 23 637 864 663

Self-employed
05.2019 - Current

EMR Principal Trainer

Monash Health
06.2019 - 02.2020
  • Develop training curriculum, course material and training approach for the medical, nursing and pharmacy streams
  • Conduct functional training and simulation sessions in EMR (Cerner) across Monash Health for a large-scale EMR implementation
  • Build test scripts and plans, as well as undertake system environment testing
  • Provide at-the-elbow support, Command Centre and HelpDesk support for end users at each Go-Live stage and throughout BAU

Clinical Pharmacist

The Royal Melbourne Hospital
02.2019 - 06.2019
  • Resident Pharmacist in the Melbourne Health Pharmacy Residency Program
  • Provide clinical and operational pharmacy services to the patients of The Royal Melbourne Hospital according to SHPA guidelines
  • Improve patient outcomes by providing medication therapy management and comprehensive pharmaceutical care to diverse patient populations
  • Dispense medication supply for inpatient, outpatient and discharge in a timely and efficient manner; proficient with Merlin dispensing software
  • Mentor pharmacy students, fostering a supportive learning environment that promoted professional growth

Clinical Pharmacist & Acting Dispensary Manager

NSW Health
01.2018 - 02.2019
  • Provide leadership and support to all pharmacy department staff
  • Manage, coordinate, supervise and train staff providing dispensing services for inpatients, outpatients and discharge
  • Triage and review all medication supply requests, ensuring the appropriate, safe, accurate and timely provision of medicines and medicines information; proficient with iPharmacy dispensing software
  • Ensure all requirements of Highly Specialised Drugs (HSD), Clozapine, SAS, S8 and S4D medications are met
  • Provide clinical ward pharmacist services
  • PROJECT: electronic Pharmacy Admission History and Discharge Reconciliation documentation in EMR (Cerner) to improve efficiency, accuracy and consistency of pre-admission and discharge medication documentation and prevent copy-paste errors
  • PROJECT: eReferrals criteria for Clinical Pharmacy Review in EMR via the Cerner PowerChart 'Census Task List'

Education

Bachelor of Nursing -

University of New England
10.2024

Graduate Certificate in Pharmacy Practice - Internship

University of Queensland
2018

Bachelor of Pharmacy -

James Cook University
2017

Certification

  • Good Clinical Practice | NIDA Clinical Trials Network
  • Mental Health First Aid | MHFA Australia
  • PSA Immunisation Training (QLD) | Pharmaceutical Society of Australia

Publications

A retrospective review of small cell lung cancer in a regional centre in Victoria [Poster Presentation].

Josephs, B., Moore, C., de Silva, A., Wright, T., Iddawela, M., & Samuel, E. (2023). Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology, 19(S3), 105-274. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajco.14026.


Factors associated with non-presentation in a multidisciplinary team meeting for lung cancer: A retrospective cohort study in regional Australia.

Segun-Beloved, L., Moore, C., Josephs, B., de Silva, A., Chau, H., Shah, B., Joshi, S., Tran, Q., Iddawela, M., & Samuel, E. (2023). Monash Rural Health Doctors for Regional Innovation, Vision, Excellence, Research & Scholarships (DRIVERS) Conference., Bendigo, VIC, Australia, 23 September 2023.

Timeline

Clinical Applications Specialist

Cabrini Health
09.2021 - Current

Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Oncology & Informatics

Latrobe Regional Hospital
02.2020 - Current

EMR Principal Trainer

Monash Health
06.2019 - 02.2020

Locum Pharmacist, ABN 23 637 864 663

Self-employed
05.2019 - Current

Clinical Pharmacist

The Royal Melbourne Hospital
02.2019 - 06.2019

Clinical Pharmacist & Acting Dispensary Manager

NSW Health
01.2018 - 02.2019

Bachelor of Nursing -

University of New England

Graduate Certificate in Pharmacy Practice - Internship

University of Queensland

Bachelor of Pharmacy -

James Cook University

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