Stephen Goundrey-Smith

Stephen Goundrey-Smith is a pharmacist, specialising in pharmacy informatics, digital practice and medicines system safety. He has worked as a researcher and consultant in electronic prescribing, digital medicines, healthcare systems and pharmacy professionalism for almost 25 years. Stephen qualified as a pharmacist in 1989, and has worked variously in hospital and community pharmacy, in the international pharmaceutical industry and as a prescribing and pharmacy software analyst in the healthcare IT industry. He has a MSc in Information Science, and a PhD in Medical Ethics. He is the author of two books on pharmacy IT - Principles of Electronic Prescribing and IT in Pharmacy: An Integrated Approach (1st Edition) as well as two books on the ethics of futuristic biomedical innovation. He has published widely and is a regular conference speaker in both pharmacy informatics and technology and medical/technological ethics.