Andrea Manfrin PhD, MBA, PharmD

Andrea Manfrin is a qualified pharmacist in Italy, the UK, and Switzerland with international research and teaching experience, community and hospital pharmacy, pharmaceutical industry, consultancy, and entrepreneurship expertise. He is specialised in health services research, outcome measures, and public health, with significant expertise in advanced statistical analysis. Andrea has experience in small and large projects, team management, strategic planning, budget management, design, and evaluation of new cost-effective health care services. He is the first member of his family who go to University.

Andrea, as Faculty Director of Research, leads the research teams across the schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, and Biomedical Sciences. He guides the strategic development of the vertical and horizontal integration of the research within the Faculty of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences with the other Faculties at UCLan and other Universities at the National and International level. He is also Chair Professor of Pharmacy Practice and supports the development of the pharmacy practice curriculum and research within the school. In 2020, Andrea, together with Dr Andrew Lunn, founded the Pedagogic Interest Group (PIG). PIG has submitted three abstracts to the Pharmacy Education conference 2020 and published one paper in less than 6 months.

Moreover, Andre, with Dr Andrew Lunn and Dr Victorio Bambini Junior, is developing a multidisciplinary team of students (pharmacy, biomedical sciences, and computer science) for the co-production of the Scientific Initiation Programme (SIP), which has started in the Summer of 2020. Andrea and Dr Andrew Lunn are working on an international multicentre project called Idea Density (ID). They started an internal collaboration with Dr Daniel Bürkle, a psycholinguist working at UCLan. Andrea has a very open attitude, using a can-do approach which inspires and enthuses others. He has also been recognised as an inspirational leader on many occasions, nationally and internationally.