David Wright’s Biography

David Wright started his career as a pharmacist in York in 1991, working as a community pharmacy relief manager for one of the large pharmacy companies.  In 1992 he returned to University to undertake a PhD to look at the community pharmacist's role in care homes.  After 3 years of visiting a large number of care homes and providing increased pharmaceutical input to patients in these homes he became a lecturer in pharmacy practice and obtained his doctorate.

In 2002 he moved to Norfolk to help set up the first new School of Pharmacy in the UK in over 30 years at the University of East Anglia.  Within its first six years of inception the school has gone on to come top in UK schools of pharmacy in the National Student Satisfaction Survey in both of the years within which is was eligible to enter.  The school also has most recently been rated in the top third of pharmacy schools for its research.  As the Director of Professional Studies, David has been responsible for the delivery of the professional elements of the undergraduate degree program together with the management of the medicines management research team.

David's research interests have always focussed around developing the role of the pharmacist and swallowing difficulties is one area where he believes the pharmacist can use their unique scientific education, together with their professional knowledge to enable patients to use their medicines safely.  From the days of his PhD, to his most recent research to determine how to ensure patients with swallowing difficulties know how to take their medicines on discharge from hospital, research into medicines administration for patients with dysphagia has always been at the centre of his research and interests.  This website is an offshoot of that research.