Staff Profile:Dr Samantha Weston
- Name:
- Dr Sam Weston
- Job Title:
- Head of Section Pharmacy
- Responsibilities:
Head of Pharmacy, University of Reading Malaysia (UoRM)
- Areas of Interest:
Dr Samantha Weston is Associate Professor of Pharmacy, and has worked at the University of Reading since 2006.
In 2014 she was seconded to the University of Reading Malaysia to begin the development of Reading School of Pharmacy Malaysia, and the creation of the BPharm programme for delivery over four years from January 2016. Additionally, she is working on the MPharm "2+2" programme, of which Parts 1 and 2 will be delivered at UoRM before students move to UoR to undertake Parts 3 and 4 of their degree.
Her research interests include pharmacy education, international healthcare education and antimicrobial stewardship.
A UK-registered, she began working as a Teacher Practitioner in the Pharmacy Practice department in January 2006, with a diverse role including developing course content, lecturing and leading practice workshops and providing the "pharmacist viewpoint" in pharmaceutics and therapeutics practical sessions. She is hoping to register in Malaysia as a pharmacist in 2014.
Prior to arriving at UoR she worked in many areas of the pharmacy industry - she started her own pharmacy locum agency, worked as a locum pharmacist in community, hospital, prison service and primary care work, both in the UK and abroad.
She completed her PhD in 2011 and her MBA in 2001, and in the past studied for the Certificate and Diploma in Pharmacy Practice.
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- Publications:
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YNumber of items: 9.
2012
- Jones, N. A., Glyn, S. E., Akiyama, S., Hill, T. D. M., Hill, A. J., Weston, S. E., Burnett, M. D. A., Yamasaki, Y., Stephens, G. J., Whalley, B. J. and Williams, C. M. (2012) Cannabidiol exerts anti-convulsant effects in animal models of temporal lobe and partial seizures. Seizure, 21 (5). pp. 344-352. ISSN 1059-1311 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seizure.2012.03.001
2010
- Hill, A. J., Weston, S. E., Jones, N., Smith, I., Bevan , S., Williamson, E. M., Stephens, G. J., Williams, C. M. and Whalley, B. J. (2010) Δ9-tetrahydrocannabivarin suppresses in vitro epileptiform and in vivo seizure activity in adult rat. Epilepsia, 51 (8). pp. 1522-1532. ISSN 0013-9580 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1528-1167.2010.02523.x
- Aitchison, E., Weston, S. E., Constanti, A. and Whalley, B. J. (2010) Anticholinesterase-induced epileptiform activity in immature rat piriform cortex slices, in vitro. Neuroscience Letters, 473 (3). pp. 252-256. ISSN 0304-3940 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2010.02.060
2009
- Weston, S. E. (2009) Asian medicine. In: Evans, W.C. (ed.) Trease and Evans' pharmacognosy. Saunders Ltd., London, pp. 498-503. ISBN 9780702029332
2008
- Whalley, B.J., Fletcher, K.E., Weston, S. E., Howard, R.L. and Rawlinson, C.F. (2008) Foundation in pharmacy practice. Pharmaceutical, London. ISBN 9780853697473
- Ma, Y.-L., Weston, S.E., Whalley, B.J. and Stephens, G.J. (2008) The phytocannabinoid Δ9-tetrahydrocannabivarin modulates inhibitory neurotransmission in the cerebellum. British Journal of Pharmacology, 154 (1). pp. 204-215. ISSN 0007-1188 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/bjp.2008.57
2007
- Patel, N. A., Weston, S. E., Constanti, A., Halliwell, J. V. and Whalley, B. J. (2007) Cholinergic modulation of intrinsic fibre-evoked excitatory transmission contains a nicotinic component in immature but not adult rat piriform cortex, in vitro. Neuroscience Letters, 425 (1). pp. 43-48. ISSN 0304-3940 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2007.08.005
- Weston, S. E., Whalley, B.J., Wilkinson, J.D. and Williamson, E.M. (2007) Medicinal cannabis: new findings on extracts and minor cannabinoids. In: Capasso, A. (ed.) Recent developments in medicinal plant research. Research Signpost, Trivandrum, Kerala, India, pp. 39-62. ISBN 9788130801605
2006
- Weston, S. E., Williamson, E. M., Constanti, A., Stephens, G. J. and Whalley, B. J. (2006) Tetrahydrocannabivarin exhibits anticonvulsant effects in a piriform cortical brain slice model of epileptiform activity. In: British Pharmacological Society Winter Meeting 2006.
- Qualifications:
- PhD
MBA
BPharm(Hons)