Tomazo Kallis

Tom Kallis a clinical academic pharmacist with extensive experience in primary care pharmacy practice. He teaches pharmacy practice on the MPharm at Plymouth programme and has previously taught as part of the advanced pharmacy practice and therapeutics (AP3T) team on the Independent Prescribing course. 

Tom is an editorial board member for the International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and an expert advisor on primary care to the Royal College of Pharmacy. Alongside his teaching and research roles, he maintains his clinical practice for a day a week at Tamar Valley Health GP Surgery in Callington, Cornwall.

Tom is a qualitative researcher and conversation analyst, with expertise in the use of observational methods to understand how pharmacists and patients interact with each other in health encounters. He is interested in the use of applied linguistic methods to understand and improve patient experiences of pharmacist-delivered care in primary care settings. Tom conducts his research at the University of Exeter in the Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) group. 

Tom was one of the first pharmacists nationally to be awarded an NIHR-Wellcome 'PhD for Primary Care Clinicians' fellowship. His thesis explored how pharmacists navigate and respond to uncertainty when reviewing complex polypharmacy in general practice. Currently, Tom holds an NIHR SPCR Commercial Pharmacy Research fellowship and is the Principal Investigator for the SMART-AD study, which seeks to develop a screening tool to identify patients prescribed long term antidepressants who would best benefit from a pharmacist medication review. He is additionally interested in clinical decision-making, organisational cultures in healthcare, medicines optimisation, clinical education and the evolving role of pharmacists in general practice.