Garvan Lynch is a community pharmacist and has been working as a sole trader in Cork for the last 17 years. Garvan holds a degree in Pharmacy from the University of Liverpool and an MBA from Imperial College London.
Lynch’s pharmacy are experienced in pharmacy practice and healthcare business processes analysis – consultation, prescribing, monitoring, patient wellbeing, time and resource savings. Garvan is passionate about technology and healthcare, and particularly in how technology can help improve patient medicine adherence.
Previous experience includes the launch and evaluation of a patient consultation service, as part of Garvan Lynch’s MBA completed in 2015. A web-based medicines consultation was designed, launched in the pharmacy, evaluated and shown to improve medication knowledge of patients, prescription adherence and pharmacy turnover (Lynch, 2015). Garvan was a category winner at the Irish Pharmacy awards in 2012 for “Innovation in Service development”.