Rate My Professor Jacinta Johnson

Associate Professor Jacinta Johnson is a Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy in the School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, College of Health at Adelaide University. She completed her PhD from 2010 to 2015 at the University of Adelaide in the Discipline of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, where her thesis examined the pathophysiology of medication overuse headache in patients using opioid analgesics and neuroimmune-related consequences of chronic opioid use. Johnson earned her Bachelor of Pharmacy with Honours from the University of South Australia between 2005 and 2008. She began her teaching career at the University of South Australia while pursuing her doctorate. Her clinical career includes serving as Medication Safety Pharmacist for the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network, Clinical Educator within the Division of Pharmacy, Specialist Clinical Pharmacist in the High Dependency Unit at Flinders Medical Centre, roles in primary healthcare with Drug and Alcohol Services South Australia, and community pharmacy practice. Currently, she holds the position of Senior Pharmacist - Research with SA Health, responsible for developing research capacity across South Australian Local Health Networks' pharmacy departments. She also coordinates second- and fourth-year Pharmacy Practice courses in the Bachelor of Pharmacy with Honours program at UniSA Clinical and Health Sciences and serves as Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia since 2025.

Johnson's academic interests center on medication safety, pharmacy practice, human pain management, opioids, addiction, drugs of dependence, headache, and Parkinson's disease. Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD candidates, she currently principal supervises or co-supervises doctoral and masters students on topics such as entrustment in pharmacy training, collaborative prescribing models, medication harm reduction, and electronic prescribing systems. She is a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Advanced Pharmacy in Education Research (FANZCAP), Fellow of Advanced Pharmacy Australia (FAdPha), Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (FPS), and Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD). Named a 2024 Young Tall Poppy, she chairs the Residency Advisory Committee, sits on the AdPha Research Specialty Practice Stream Leadership Group, and is a Board Director for Pharmacy Development Australia. Select publications include "Beyond the Numbers: Exploring Tensions Between Formal Entrustment and Trainee Readiness in Internship Training — A Mixed-Methods Study" (2026, Perspectives on Medical Education), "Collaborative pharmacist prescribing models in Australian hospitals: a scoping study" (2025, Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy), "Evaluation of Pharmacy and Nursing Interprofessional Undergraduate Learning in a High-Fidelity Simulated Hospital, Supported with a Virtual Online Environment" (2025, International Medical Education), and "Quantifying the non-remunerated services provided by pharmacists" (2025).