Trudy qualified as a pharmacist in 1988. For the next 14 years, she combined community pharmacy work with pharmacy education work and being a mum. She worked initially for the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education and the National Pharmaceutical Association, as well as a number of Kent based Primary Care Organisations, as a Prescribing Advisor. She joined the Medway School of Pharmacy in 2004 as a clinical lecturer and was joint Head of Clinical and Professional Practice for 6 years. She is currently Director of Taught Graduate Studies. She has been the Pharmacist Programme Lead for the School’s Postgraduate Certificate in Independent and Supplementary Prescribing since 2004 and has edited a book ‘Developing your Prescribing Skills’. Trudy was part of the pharmacy planning team for the Olympics and worked at the Stratford Pharmacy during the games. She is a keen runner and cyclist. Over the last 5 years Trudy has developed a clinical interest in epilepsy and she carries out annual epilepsy reviews for people with the condition. She qualified as a non-medical prescriber in 2016 and hopes to prescribe for patients with epilepsy in both primary and secondary care epilepsy clinics. She still practices as a locum pharmacist.

Trudy’s research interests have been mainly to do with physical activity and behaviour change. In 2014 she completed her PhD which investigated whether community pharmacists can use behaviour change counselling to increase the amount of physical activity undertaken by people with mild to moderate depression. This work was initially supported by a Hugh Linsted Award from the Pharmacy Practice Research Trust. She has a number of research projects underway which use behaviour change counselling. More recently Trudy has started to develop a research interest in epilepsy to run alongside her clinical speciality. She has been working with local health organisations to support pharmacists to deliver medicines use reviews in epilepsy. She obtained a School scholarship and now has a PhD student who is looking at the medicines burden for people with epilepsy. Trudy has also been involved in a wide range of service evaluations on behalf of NHS trusts, clinical commissioning groups and the regional Health Education England organisation.