Honorary Associate Professor Louis Roller

Brief description

Louis Roller (BPharm, BSc, MSc, PhD, DipEd, FPS) is Honorary Associate Professor in Pharmacy Practice at Monash University

Full description

Louis Roller PhD, FPS, has been a pharmacy educator at Monash University since 1963. He was variously the Associate Dean Teaching (1992-2006) of the faculty, head of department of pharmacy practice (1992-2001), director of the bachelor pharmacy program until his retirement from the University in December 2008. He has served on the Pharmacy Board of Victoria for 22 years and PSA Victorian Committee for the last six years. He has contributed significantly to the last nine editions of the APF, as well as being on various writing committees of the Therapeutic Guidelines; the “Australianised” and upgraded large sections of Mosby’s Medical Dictionary. He was the first academic to push for and achieve a more patient-oriented course of pharmacy. He has and still teaches varying aspects of therapeutics to pharmacy, dental, medical, podiatry and nursing students, gives lectures to various professional organisations and particularly CPD lectures and workshops to pharmacists. He gives many pro bono lectures on issues of health-care and medicines to various University of the Third Age (U3A) groups. He has published 315 articles in scientific and professional journals, 54 letters in professional journals 150 scientific communications, one book 14 book chapters and numerous letters to the lay press.