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Dr Rick Plumb

School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences
Rick Plumb

Dr Rick Plumb

School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

My research focus to date has been in medical education and interventions to reduce falls associated drugs in older patients.

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  • r.plumb@qub.ac.uk
  • 07429708858

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the fields of medical education, especially relating to therapeutics and pharmacology and drug prescribing relating to falls in older patients.

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PhD Title Use of falls-risk increasing drugs in older people before and after hospitalisation with a fall
Name Paula Crawford
Year of Study Third year
Country  UK

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