Margaret Duguid

Margaret Duguid joined the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care in January 2008 after a sustained career in Hospital Pharmacy, most recently as Director of Royal North Shore Hospital.

A graduate of Otago University in New Zealand, Margaret commenced her career in hospital pharmacy in New Zealand before moving to Australia to work in the pharmaceutical industry. She then spent some time in community pharmacy in Australia and Scotland before returning to Australia and hospital practice, firstly as a clinical pharmacist at the Royal Canberra Hospital, then as Chief Pharmacist at Wollongong Hospital before moving to Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney in 1993.

Margaret has been an active member of the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA) for over 30 years. She served as a Federal Councillor for 8 years, as Federal President (1993 – 1995) and as Chair of the SHPA Research and Development Grants Advisory Committee (2000-2005). Margaret is an examiner for the NSW Pharmacy Board and has served on the Australian Pharmaceutical Advisory Committee. In 1996 Margaret chaired the Pharmacy Consumer Medicines Information Taskforce that developed the Australian guidelines for the provision of consumer product information by pharmacists.

Margaret has a keen interest in the quality and safe use of medicines and has undertaken research in this area. She is currently on the High Cost Drug Working Party of NSW Therapeutic Advisory group.

In 1995 Margaret was awarded the Merck Sharp Dohme (Australia) Medal for Pharmacy Practice and in 2005 received the Fred J Boyd award from the Society of Hospital Pharmacists.