Jacquelina Stasinopoulos

Jacqui is an Academic Lecturer at Flinders University, and a Pharmacist at SA Health. She is passionate about keeping Australians safe from medicine related harm, and about instilling strong first principles of pharmacology, therapeutics and multidisciplinary teamwork in the next generation of prescribers. She currently teaches pharmacology/prescribing content to Optometry students and is a topic developer for the Graduate Certificate in Registered Nurse Prescribing. Jacqui also teaches in Understanding Health, Illness, and Health and Social Care in Australia for Health Science students.

Jacqui's teaching, clinical and research interests are united by a single aim: keeping Australians safe and enhancing the health of the community through Quality Use of Medicines. Jacqui is particularly interested in investigating and addressing medication use and health service challenges in vulnerable populations, including frail older adults, patients with diabetes, obesity, multimorbidity, polypharmacy and socioeconomic disadvantage, and women of reproductive age using medications. She continues to collaborate with research groups at Flinders and Adelaide University. 

Jacqui completed her PhD in Pharmacy and Pharmacoepidemiology at Monash University's Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, examining medication management and burden of type 2 diabetes in residential aged care. Before joining the teaching team at the College of Health and Enablement, she worked as a Research Associate in the Reproductive and Perinatal Pharmacoepidemiology Group, College of Medicine and Public Health at Flinders University. This dual grounding in aged care and perinatal and reproductive health pharmacoepidemiology sparked a broader interest in how medicines are used, and often over- or under-used, across the life course, especially in people living with multiple chronic conditions at once. Jacqui's earlier training in Nutrition and Dietetics, also completed at Flinders, continues to inform how she thinks about medicines as one part of a patient's broader holistic care, alongside diet, lifestyle and other interventions that address the biopsychosocial dimensions of health. 

Outside work, Jacqui spends most of her time running around after her two young children alongside her husband Pete, enjoying good food and time with family and friends, and singing karaoke at home most weekends whether anyone wants to hear it or not.