Mentor biography
Christine Bond is Emeritus Professor of Primary Care (Pharmacy), at the Institute of Applied Health Sciences , University of Aberdeen and free lance research consultant .
Christine Bond has a first degree in pharmacy and spent five years working in the research laboratories at Glaxo Smith Kline when she first graduated. After living abroad for a few years, she returned to the UK and worked part time as a community pharmacist while her children were growing up, in tandem with a part time academic post. This arrangement balanced family life, professional practice and developing a career in health services research. She completed a Masters in Education in 1994 and her PhD in 1995, progressing through the University scales until she was appointed to a Personal Chair in 2001 and became Head of the Centre of Academic Primary Care in 2007. She was part time Consultant in Pharmaceutical Public Health (NHS Grampian) from 1996-2012, and in that time was awarded Fellowship of the Faculty of Public Health. In 2011 she was invited to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, one of very few non-medical members, and subsequently Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
Christine is Editor of the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, has served as an elected member of the Scottish National Board of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) for 10 years until summer 2009. She has been a member of national and international Research Panels . Throughout her research and teaching career she has always sought to identify with general practice and primary care whilst maintaining her links with her core discipline of pharmacy.