Rate My Professor Aynsley Peterson

Aynsley Peterson serves as Senior Professional Practice Fellow in the School of Pharmacy and Deputy Director of the Centre for Interprofessional Education within the Faculty of Health Professional Programmes at the University of Otago. She earned a Bachelor of Pharmacy (BPharm) and a Postgraduate Certificate in Pharmacy (PGCertPharm) from the University of Otago and is a registered pharmacist in New Zealand. Her professional expertise centers on clinical pharmacy, particularly in oncology, aseptics, renal care, and medicines management. Peterson contributes to pharmacy education through teaching in workshops with patients, clinic sessions, interprofessional education programs, and hospital placements. She is also a member of the Admissions Group for the School of Pharmacy, supporting student selection processes.

Peterson's research focuses on therapeutic decision-making, experiential learning, and pharmacy education. Her publications demonstrate impact in these areas. Notable works include 'Students' perceptions of playing a serious game intended to enhance therapeutic decision-making in a pharmacy curriculum' co-authored with S.B. Duffull (Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning, 2020); 'Population analysis of once-daily dosing of gentamicin in patients with neutropenia' with S.B. Duffull (Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine, 1998); 'Measuring the development of therapeutic-decision-making skills by practicing pharmacists undertaking a university-based postgraduate clinical qualification at distance' with D.F.B. Wright, S.B. Duffull, K.J. Wilby, and M.G. Anakin (Pharmacy, 2020); 'Exploring a scalable real-time simulation for interprofessional education in pharmacy and medicine' with S. Duffull, B. Chai, F. Cho, J. Opoku, T. Sissing, D. Smith, and others (MedEdPublish, 2020); 'Using an interprofessional decision-making model to determine the level of collaborative decision-making in a virtual learning environment' with L. Beckingsale, S. Morgan, S. Duffull, P. Hider, L. McDermott, and others (Journal of Practice Teaching & Learning, 2024); and 'Unacceptable Behaviors Towards Health Professional Clinical Students: Protocol For a Mixed-Methods Study' with I.S. Al-Busaidi, G. Noller, J.M. Ross, A.R. Gray, D. Aldabe, and others (Health Science Reports, 2024). These contributions advance interprofessional collaboration and educational innovations in health sciences.