Rate My Professor Jenny Schneider

Associate Professor Jenny Schneider serves as Head of the Clinical Pharmacology Laboratory in the School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medicine, at the University of Newcastle. A registered pharmacist with extensive experience in community and hospital settings, she earned her Bachelor of Pharmacy and PhD from the University of Queensland. Her professional journey includes roles as a community pharmacist (1982-1992), researcher developing HPLC drug analysis methods and bioequivalence studies at Princess Alexandra Hospital (1989-1992), research scientist at Calvary Newcastle Mater Hospital (1992), specialist pharmacist in palliative care at Calvary Mater Newcastle (1993-2003), and academic positions at the University of Newcastle since 2003. Notably, she was Program Convenor for the Bachelor of Pharmacy and Master of Pharmacy programs until 2017, contributing fundamentally to the establishment of the Pharmacy program at the university.

Schneider's research interests center on clinical pharmacokinetics, pharmaceutical properties of drugs, drug stability and compatibility, and the development of analytical techniques for therapeutic drug monitoring in small blood volumes, including fingerprick samples and dried blood spot methods suitable for clinical and home use. She co-authored the internationally recognized book "The Syringe Driver: Continuous Subcutaneous Infusions in Palliative Care" (2005 and 2011 editions). Her scholarly output includes highly cited works such as "The pharmacokinetics and the pharmacodynamics of cannabinoids" (2018, 982 citations), "Advances in oral nano-delivery systems for colon targeted drug delivery in inflammatory bowel disease" (2015, 668 citations), and recent publications on microsampling for anticancer drugs and cannabis research. In teaching and learning, she has received prestigious awards, including the Vice Chancellor’s Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (2007), Teacher of the Year by the Newcastle University Postgraduate Student Association (2006), NSW Quality Teaching Award (2009), Faculty of Health and Medicine Teaching Award (2016), and DVC(A) Educator Innovation and Impact Award (2020). Her work also explores augmented and virtual reality in education and contributes to the Drug Repurposing and Medicines Research program.