Aleda M.H. Chen, PharmD, MS, PhD, FAPhA, is a Professor and Director of Assessment at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Pharmacy, Cedarville, OH, USA. She is an Associate Editor at Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy (RSAP) and coedits the major text Pharmacy Management: Essentials for All Settings. In 2024, she won the Lyman Award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) for the best educational research paper in the American Journal of Pharmacy Education (AJPE), and in 2026, she received the AACP Distinguished Teaching Scholar Award. Her teaching and research interests focus on pharmacy assessment, competency-based education (CBE), implementation science, and behavior change, leading to >125 published papers in peer-reviewed journals. Her work in CBE has led to her becoming a member of the International CBE Health Professions Collaborative and guest editing a collection of papers on the implementation of CBE for Perspectives in Medical Education.Shane P. Desselle, RPh, PhD, FAPhA, is Associate Dean for Research & Professional Affairs, Chair, and Professor at Touro University California, USA. He is founding Editor-in-Chief of Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy (RSAP) and Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy (ERCSP). Additionally, he coedits the major text Pharmacy Management: Essentials for All Settings, now in its 6th, worldwide edition. He has published over 170 papers in peer-reviewed journals. In 2020, he coauthored a paper winning the Wiederholt Prize for the best paper published in Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, and in 2019, he won the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Sustained Contribution Award for his teaching, scholarship, and service in social/administrative pharmacy. His federally funded research focuses on organizational culture, quality of work life, and advancing the roles of various professionals within the medication use and education systems.Parisa Aslani, BPharm(Hons), MSc, GradCertEdStud (Higher Ed), PhD, MRPharmS, FPS, FFIP, FANZCAP, is a Professor in Medicines Use Optimisation at The University of Sydney, Australia. She is known internationally for her research in the areas of consumer medicines information and adherence to therapy. Her research has impacted policy and education in the healthcare sector, and at the Australian Government level, and has led to a global initiative on developing medicine information strategies for implementation at national and local levels. Her research skills range from qualitative techniques to survey design and randomized control trials.Fernanda Stumpf Tonin, PhD, is a Distinguished Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Granada, Spain, and an Integrated Researcher at the Health & Technology Research Center (H&TRC), Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Portugal. She is also a Senior Researcher at the National Research Group in Health Technology Assessment (NATS/UFPR) in Brazil. She serves as Vice-Chair of the Pharmacy Practice Research Special Interest Group of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) and as Associate Editor of Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy (ERCSP). Her research focuses on health technology assessment, pharmacoeconomics, and health outcomes research, with more than 150 publications in international peer-reviewed journals. She has been ranked among the world’s top 2% most-cited scientists by Stanford University. She also works as an HEOR and Market Access consultant in healthcare.Timothy F. Chen, BPharm, DipHPharm, PhD, FFIP, FPS, FANZCAP, ARPharmS is the Professor of Medication Management at The University of Sydney, Australia. Tim is nationally and internationally renowned for his research in medication review and strategies to reduce medication-related harm. He has published extensively in this and other areas of practice. Tim’s research has informed significant practice change, through the implementation of the Australian Commonwealth Government funded Home Medicines Review (HMR) program. Tim currently leads a large and productive postgraduate research team and is the recipient of university and national teaching awards.Victoria García-Cárdenas, BPharm, MPharm, PhD, FFIP, is an Associate Professor at the University of Granada, Spain, where she serves as Vice-Dean for International Relations and Postgraduate Studies at the Faculty of Pharmacy. Her teaching and research focus on the development, evaluation, and implementation of professional pharmacy services, aiming to optimize the quality use of medicines and improve patient outcomes. Her work also addresses the advancement of patient-centered care and the integration of clinical pharmacy services within healthcare systems. She has authored over 90 peer-reviewed publications and has participated in several nationally and internationally funded research projects.

• Section I: Methodological Cornerstones of High-Quality Pharmacy Research1. How to validate self-reported questionnaires for pharmacy practice? Methodological recommendations with the 15-STARS as an illustrative example2. Hermeneutic Phenomenology and Member Checking: Navigating Tensions and Advancing Epistemological Reflexivity Philosophical Critique, Practical Strategies, and Reflective Resources for Qualitative Research3. Scientific visibility and MeSH terms: the case of ‘Pharmaceutical Sciences’4. Lexicographic Analysis as a Methodological Tool for Mapping Health Care Integration5. Methodological quality and risk of bias of meta-analyses of pharmacy services: A systematic review6. Developing high-quality research questions7. Executing high-quality literature searches8. Synthesizing the Scatter: Conducting Purposeful Scoping Reviews in Pharmacy EducationSection II: Designing and Evaluating Interventions in Pharmacy Research9. Investigating the impact of agile methods on psychological safety perception in pharmaceutical practice: A multidimensional approach10. Using case study methodology to examine the role of pharmacists in residential aged care11. Using habit science in the design and delivery of a pharmacist-delivered medication adherence intervention12. Complexity in pharmacy practice: Methodological insights from a realist evaluation of community pharmacy development in Aotearoa New Zealand13. Interpretative phenomenological analysis in support of collaboration among healthcare providers14. Designing for health equity: the application of critical Indigenous methodology in health services research15. Scoping reviews in pharmacy and health services researchContributors: Nátalia Stollárová, Cristín Ryan, Carmel Doyle, Cathal Cadogan, Michelle Cleary16. Development of a complex medication review intervention in a cross-sector setting17. Risk indicators and risk groups in register-based medicine use researchSection III: Innovative Methods and Tools in Pharmacy Research18. Implementation frameworks for evaluation in pharmacy and other health services with a focus on the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) 2.019. An evidence-based approach to disseminating research20. Using Design Thinking and Journey Mapping to Inform Person-Centered Service Design21. Health Information Technology in Pharmacy: A Concept-Mapping Approach to Evaluation22. Methodological guidance on Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) in Social Pharmacy Research23. Enhancing the clinical pharmacy service of a large teaching hospital: Development of a new clinical prioritisation tool24. How can a behavioural economics lens contribute to deprescribing? Nudging taking fewer medicines25. Concept Mapping: An integrated, mixed methods approach for collaboratively building consensusSection IV: Technology Advancing Pharmacy Research26. Modularity Encoding: A network-based approach for representing Healthcare Coding Systems in Machine Learning models27. Artificial intelligence in pharmacotherapy – methods and approaches28. Healthcare data integration using machine learning: A case study evaluation with health information-seeking behavior databases29. Creating Digital Practice Support Tools with Generative Artificial Intelligence30. Preventing, identifying, and managing fraudulent participants in research

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