Ciara is the Pharmacist Executive Manager in St Patrick's Mental Health Services, Dublin. She has worked in Community and Hospital settings in the UK and Ireland and has over 20 years experience in psychiatry. Ciara is credentialed at an advanced level with the College of Mental Health Pharmacy (CMHP) in the UK, demonstrating attainment of specialist skills and knowledge consistent with an advanced practitioner, and is a former President of the CMHP and a current member of the Executive of the Hospital Pharmacy Association of Ireland (HPAI). She completed the PgDip in Psychiatric Pharmacy with Aston University in the UK and also qualified as an Independent Non-Medical Prescriber. On returning to Ireland she completed the MSc in Clinical Pharmacy with UCC and subsequently published her MSc research on the impact of pharmacist counselling on clozapine knowledge. She has also co-authored publications on improving benzodiazepine and hypnotic prescribing, monitoring of high dose antipsychotic therapy, and weight management strategies for people taking antipsychotic medication. Ciara has been a peer reviewer and contributor to several journals and a local tutor/supervisor for postgraduate students for a number of universities. She believes strongly in the importance of facilitating ongoing learning and research within St. Patrick’s Mental Health Services Pharmacy Department.