Using Agent-Based Models to Simulate Behaviour: An introductory workshop: About

Ardalan (Ardi) Mirzaei

Ardi Mirzaei BPharm, MPhil, GradCertEdstud (Higher Ed) is a registered pharmacist and PhD graduate who studied patients’ health information-seeking behaviour. Ardi has a passion for applying machine learning and deep learning methods to transform healthcare and streamline healthcare processes. He teaches students and academics the coding languages of Python and R for data science and analysis. As the state coordinator, he also organises training for pharmacy interns. His masters’ work focused on marketing and the influence of service quality in community pharmacies. As a part of FIP, he is a member of the Health and Medicines Information Section and the FIP Technology Forum.

Carl Schneider

Dr Carl Schneider BN, BPharm(Hons), PhD, PGCert(HigherEd) is a Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice at The University of Sydney School of Pharmacy. Carl has research expertise in optimising the patient safety via Quality Use of Medicines, with research outputs spanning pharmacoepidemiology to implementation of health care services in Australian community pharmacies through development and implementation of practice guidelines. Carl completed his PhD in 2011 at the University of Western Australia and now has over 60 career total publications, primarily in the areas of health professional education, social and administrative pharmacy and implementation of health services and is the successful recipient of funding totalling over AUD$3,500,000. As a recognised leader in the area of health care services and education, Carl has been an invited speaker at multiple national and international events, elected National Education Lead for the Australasian Pharmaceutical Sciences Association in 2017, elected to the Executive Committee of the International Pharmacy Federation Academic Section in 2018, and is an associate editor for Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy.