Andrew McLachlan

Professor Andrew McLachlan is the Program Director of the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Medicines and Ageing, and leader of Health Services and Patient Safety Research theme at the Faculty of Pharmacy and at Concord Hospital’s Centre for Education and Research on Ageing. He is a pharmacist, academic and researcher experienced in clinical and experimental pharmacology and research on the quality use of medicines. His research focuses on understanding the variability in response to medicines and how this can be managed to optimise patient care, particularly in special patient populations such as older people, the very young and the critically ill. He is interested in translating clinical pharmacology research into real-world practice