Qualifications:
BPharm, MSc (Pharm)

Professional affiliations:

South African Pharmacy Council.

Pharmaceutical Society of South Africa.

Teaching:            

10/04/2018 – current Pharmacy Practice Lecturer

01/04/2018 – 30/06/2018 Anatomy, Physiology, Pathophysiology & Pathology Lecturer (contract) 01/02/2014 – 31/12/2016, Pharmaceutics 2 Practicals’ Lecturer (Contract)

June 2015, November 2015, June 2016 BPharm 4 Pharmacology Orals’ Examiner

February to September 2005-2006, 2008-2013, May to June 2006, January – December 2008, September – November 2009, April – July 2012 Teaching Assistant

Research Interests:

Research interests are health promotion and health education especially of the less privileged with limited access to information sources. Other research interests are in regulation of traditional and complimentary medicines, as well as health practices, in South Africa.

Recent Publications:

Clarris Magadza, Sunitha C Srinivas, Sarah E Radloff. The effect of an educational intervention on hypertensive patients' beliefs about medicines. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, 2009;5(4):363-375.

Clarris Shiri, Sunitha C Srinivas, William Futter, Sarah E Radloff. The role of insight into and beliefs about medicines of hypertensive patients. Cardiovascular Journal of Africa (Peer reviewed journal) 2007;18(6):353-35.

Peer-reviewed conference proceedings:

• 33rd Annual Conference of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences of South Africa, 12-15 September 2012, Makhanda: A morphogenetic cycle representation of the regulation of traditional health practice in South Africa. (Poster Presentation) 
• South African Association of Hospital and Institutional Pharmacists (SAAHIP) Conference 6-9 March 2008, Drakensberg: Simple, but Effective Educational Intervention to Increase Knowledge about Hypertension and its Therapy. (Poster presentation)
• 4th International Conference on Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, 20 - 23 Sep 2006 Vanderbiljpark: The Impact of Therapeutic Education on Hypertensive Patients’ Levels of Adherence to Therapy. (Poster presentation) 
• 7th Health Research Conference 16 – 18 August 2006 Port Elizabeth: Development of an Information Leaflet for Hypertensive Individuals. (Podium presentation) 
• South African Association of Hospital and Institutional Pharmacists (SAAHIP) Conference 9 – 12 March 2006 Wilderness: Effect of Educational Interventions in Modifying Health Care Receivers’ Beliefs about Medicines. (Poster presentation) 
• 26th Annual Conference of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences 29 September – 2 October 2005 Port Elizabeth: Medicines information at a primary health care centre in Makhanda. (Poster presentation) 
• 14th Biennial Congress of the Southern African Hypertension Society 5 – 7 March, Cape Town: The level of knowledge and understanding as well as the beliefs and perceptions about medicines of a selected group of hypertensive patients. (Poster presentation) 
• 25th Annual Conference of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences 12 – 15 September 2004, Makhanda: Beliefs and perceptions about medicines among a group of employees at an Eastern Cape university in South Africa. (Podium Presentation)

Web presence:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Clarris_Magadza

Hobbies and interests:

Reading, Baking