Jean-Pierre Calabretto

Research Interests

Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice Decision Support and Group Support Systems Health Informatics

Dr Jean-Pierre Calabretto

School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Science

College of Health

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Pharmacist, with over 25 years of experience in hospital practice at the Women’s in Children’s Hospital (WCH) in Adelaide, South Australia, 20 of those years as Associate Director of Pharmacy.
Experience spans management and clinical practice with a focus on information systems and management, including external committees on Health-related IT.
Held a dual WCH-University of South Australia (UniSA) position as Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Informatics in 2000-2003 and undertook fulltime PhD studies at the School of Computer and Information Sciences at UniSA in 2004-2007: ‘Supporting Medication-related decision-making with information model-based digital documents’.
Other past appointments include lecturer in Applied Pharmacotherapeutics at the School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences (UniSA) and Project Manager with the National Prescribing Service.
Currently Manager-Quality, Strategy & Development with the Australian Medicines Handbook, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences and Affiliate Lecturer at the University of Adelaide.

Knowledge and information management in pharmacy, Electronic decision support in health,m-Health,Structuring drug information content for electronic delivery, Electronic health records, Technology use in education, Quality Use of Medicines

Date Position Institution name
2010 - ongoing Afiliate Lecturer University of Adelaide
2008 - ongoing Adjunct Senior Research Fellow University of South Australia

Language Competency
English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
French Can read, write, speak and understand spoken
Italian Can read, write, speak and understand spoken

Date Institution name Country Title
South Australian Institute of Technology Australia B Pharm
Deakin University Australia MCS
University of South Australia Australia PhD

Year Citation
2025 Ranwala, R. A. D. L. M. K., Roughead, E. E., Calabretto, J. P., & Andrade, A. Q. (2025). Increasing Prevalence of Long-Term Antidepressant Use in Australia: A Retrospective Observational Study. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, 34(11), 10 pages.
DOI Europe PMC1
2024 Tait, K., Gandhi, J., Ward, M., Calabretto, J. P., & Rossi, S. (2024). Student evaluation of an instructional video on how to use a national medicines information resource. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 32(3), 251-255.
DOI
2023 Andrade, A. Q., Calabretto, J. -P., Pratt, N., Kalisch-Ellett, L., LeBlanc, V. T., & Roughead, E. E. (2023). Precision public health intervention for care coordination: A real world study. British Journal of General Practice, 73(728), e220-1-e220-11.
DOI Scopus1 Europe PMC1
2022 Andrade, A. Q., Calabretto, J. -P., Pratt, N. L., Kalisch-Ellett, L. M., Kassie, G. M., LeBlanc, V. T., . . . Roughead, E. E. (2022). Implementation and Evaluation of a Digitally Enabled Precision Public Health Intervention to Reduce Inappropriate Gabapentinoid Prescription: Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24(1), e33873-1-e33873-12.
DOI Scopus5 WoS6 Europe PMC6
2021 Andrade, A. Q., Calabretto, J. -P., Pratt, N. L., Kalisch-Ellett, L. M., Kassie, G. M., LeBlanc, V. T., . . . Roughead, E. E. (2021). Implementation and Evaluation of a Digitally Enabled Precision Public Health Intervention to Reduce Inappropriate Gabapentinoid Prescription: Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial (Preprint).
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2017 Calabretto, J. P. (2017). Health IT: but you promised.... Journal of pharmacy practice and research, 47(2), 84-85.
DOI
2014 Calabretto, J., Thomas, J., Rossi, S., & Beilby, J. (2014). Medical student experiences of a smartphone-delivered drug information resource. Electronic Journal of Health Informatics, 8(2), 1-11.
WoS1
2013 Tran, S., Calabretto, J., & Sorich, M. (2013). Consumer-pharmacist interactions around complementary medicines: agreement between pharmacist and consumer expectations, satisfaction and pharmacist influence. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 21(6), 378-385.
DOI Scopus22 Europe PMC18
2011 Gordon, J., Calabretto, J., & Sorich, M. (2011). Unanswered health-related questions in community pharmacy: Frequency, nature and consequences. Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research, 41(4), 271-274.
DOI Scopus3
2011 Calabretto, J. P., Lewis, B., & Reeve, J. (2011). A preliminary investigation of an integration tool to improve access to information resources in clinical software. Electronic Journal of Health Informatics, 6(1), 6 pages.
Scopus2 WoS2
2011 Calabretto, J. P., & Rao, D. (2011). Wikis to support collaboration of pharmacy students in medication management workshops: a pilot project. International journal of pharmacy education, 7(2), 1-12.
2010 Calabretto, J. P., & Swatman, P. M. C. (2010). Sociotechnical implications for information technology related interventions in community medication management : a case study. Electronic journal of health informatics, 5(1), 1-12.
2008 Calabretto, J. P., & Swatman, P. M. C. (2008). Designing a better health technology intervention to support medication management. Journal of Design Research, 7(4), 367-392.
DOI Scopus1
2008 Calabretto, J. P., & Swatman, P. M. C. (2008). Designing digital documents to support medication management. Electronic journal of health informatics, 3(1), 1-14.
WoS1
2005 Calabretto, J. P., & Warren, J. R. (2005). Initial assessment of an Internet-based medication record. Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research, 35(2), 99-102.
DOI Scopus1
2005 Calabretto, J. P., Warren, J., & Bird, L. (2005). Pharmacy decision support: Where is it? A systematic literature review. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 13(3), 157-163.
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2005 Calabretto, J. P., Banerjee, D., Warren, J., & Bird, L. (2005). XForms and XML events to support decisions about medication management.. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings AMIA Symposium AMIA Symposium, 2005, 909.
Europe PMC1
1992 Roberts, G. W., Kowalski, S. R., & Calabretto, J. P. (1992). Lack of effect of cisapride on phenytoin free fraction [3]. Annals of Pharmacotherapy, 26(7-8), 1016-1017.
DOI Scopus5 WoS6 Europe PMC3

Year Citation
2009 Awami, S. A., Swatman, P. M. C., & Calabretto, J. P. (2009). Implementing medication management software effectively within a hospital environment : gaining benefits from metaphorical design. In Y. Yang, & J. Jianhua (Eds.), Information systems : modeling development and integration Vol. 20 LNBIP (pp. 346-354). Sydney, Australia: Springer Verlag.
DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2009 Awami, S. A., Doogue, M., Calabretto, J. P., Swatman, P. M. C., Mangoni, A., & Spurling, L. (2009). IT support for the medication management process in hospitals: an overview. In Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference - e-Health 2009 (pp. 59-67). Portugal: International Association for Development of the Information Society.
2007 Calabretto, J. P., & Swatman, P. M. C. (2007). Towards a working document to support medication management. In Current perspectives in healthcare computing : conference. Swindon, UK: British Computer Society.
2007 Awami, S. A., Swatman, P. M. C., & Calabretto, J. P. (2007). An eDocument-based IT intervention to support quality use of medicines in a hospital environment : development, implementation and evaluation. In Proceedings of the 2007 Collecter E-Commerce Conference : Collecter 2007 - 10th Anniversary. Adelaide, South Australia: University of South Australia.
2006 Calabretto, J. P., & Swatman, P. M. C. (2006). Supporting a medication management model with digital documents. In ACIS 2006 Proceedings of the 17th Australian Conference on Information Systems. Adelaide, Australia: Australasian Association for Information Systems.
2005 Calabretto, J. P., Warren, J. R., & Bird, L. (2005). Missing information for decision making in medication management. In HIC 2005 Proceedings: The Thirteenth Annual Health Informatics Conference. Australia: Health Informatics Society of Australia.
2003 Calabretto, J. P., & Warren, J. R. (2003). Consumer experiences of an internet medicine cabinet. In E. Simpson (Ed.), Proceedings of the Combined Conferences of the Eleventh National Health Informatics Conference and Twelfth National RACGP Computer Conference. Brunswick East, Victoria: Health Informatics Society of Australia Ltd and Royal College of General Practitioners.
2002 Warren, J. R., Calabretto, J. P., & Avery, B. R. J. (2002). Electronically-mediated patient-pharmacist communication - Why bother? Oberservations of an internet medicine cabinet. In R. Ribbons, V. Dall, & A. Webb (Eds.), 10th National Health Informatics Conference. Australia: Health Informatics Soceity of Australia Ltd.
2002 Calabretto, J. P. (2002). So that was IT: The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. In Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research Vol. 32 (pp. 219-220). Wiley.
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2002 Calabretto, J. P., Warren, J. R., Darzanos, K., & Fry, B. (2002). Building common ground for communication between patients and community pharmacists with an internet medicine cabinet. In Proceedings of the 35th Hawaii international conference on system sciences Vol. 2002-January (pp. 2087-2094). Los Alamitos, California, United States: IEEE.
DOI Scopus9
2002 Calabretto, J. P., Couper, D., Mulley, B. J., Nissen, M., Siow, S., Tuck, J. R., & Warren, J. R. (2002). Agent support for patient and community pharmacists. In Proceedings of the 35th Hawaii international conference on system sciences Vol. 2002-January (pp. 2003-2012). Los Alamitos, California, USA: IEEE.
DOI Scopus5
2001 Calabretto, J. P., Warren, J. R., Darzanos, K., & Fry, B. (2001). Enhancing communication between patients and community pharmacists with an Internet Medicine Cabinet. In P. James, J. Smith, & L. Smith (Eds.), Realising Quality Health Care. Brunswick East: Health Informatics Society of Australia.

Year Citation
2007 Calabretto, J. (2007). Supporting medication-related decision making with information model-based digital documents. (PhD Thesis).

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2023 Co-Supervisor - Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Lasantha Ranwala Arachchige Don

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