Tarlochan graduated with a First Class Honour degree in Pharmacy at the Welsh School of Pharmacy, University of Wales and received the BPC prize for top student. He then completed his membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) at Northwick Park Hospital and Clinical Research Centre. He was awarded the Leverhulme Scholarship by the RPSGB to undertake a PhD in Clinical Oncology with Professor David Luscombe, University of Wales in collaboration with Velindre Hospital. “Pharmacokinetic and Biochemical studies with Cisplatin in patients with Cancer”. Following this, he completed a 3-year post-doctoral research programme with Professor Malcolm Rowland, University of Manchester that focussed on the stereospecific pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of oral anticoagulants. Tarlochan gained extensive clinical research experience in both the Pharmaceutical Industry (GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer Central Research) and the Contract Research Industry (Simbec Research Limited and Harrison Clinical Research) where he held a number of senior management positions. In 2003 he was awarded a Masters in Business Administration. He joined the Medway School of Pharmacy in 2008, prior to which he also managed a busy Community Pharmacy in Kent. In addition to being the undergraduate admissions tutor, Tarlochan teaches across all four years of the undergraduate MPharm programme specialising in Clinical Pharmacokinetics, Drug Interactions, Adverse Drug Reactions, Advanced Therapeutics and Communication Skills.

These cover both Development and evaluation of novel pharmacy services and supporting future practitioners. I am interested in maximising the contributions of the pharmacy team to patient care through appropriate integration with other healthcare professionals. Currently I am evaluating services provided by community pharmacists from the perspective of General Practitioners, patients and pharmacists. I also study the development of novel methods for teaching Pharmacokinetics.