Professor Anthony R Cox BSc PhD FRPharmS FBPhS Clin Dip Pharm FHEA

Professor Anthony R Cox

School of Pharmacy
Head of the School of Pharmacy
Professor in Clinical Pharmacy and Drug Safety

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 6926
Email
a.r.cox@bham.ac.uk
Address
School of Pharmacy
College of Medicine and Health
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Anthony is a Professor in Clinical Pharmacy and Drug Safety and Head of the School of Pharmacy. Anthony has wide experience of teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He is a registered pharmacist.

His research focuses on drug safety, including medication errors, the safe and rational use of medicines, and pharmacovigilance. He has a specific focus on patient and healthcare professional engagement with pharmacovigilance systems and medicines. He is an honorary pharmacovigilance pharmacist at the MHRA's Yellow Card Centre West Midlands.

Qualifications

  • Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society 2020
  • Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society 2015
  • PG Cert HE 2012
  • FHEA 2012
  • PhD 2008
  • Clin Dip Pharm 1995
  • MRPharmS 1992
  • BSc (Hons) Pharmacy 1991

Teaching

  • Pharmacy Post-Graduate Programmes
  • Undergraduate MPharm
  • Non-medical Prescribing

Postgraduate supervision

Anthony Cox is interested in supervising doctoral research in the following areas:

Pharmaceutical care
Clinical pharmacy
Medicines adherence
Drug safety
Pharmacovigilance

Research

Anthony鈥檚 central research interest is drug safety in clinical therapeutics, in relation to adverse drug reactions (ADRs), pharmacovigilance, medication errors, and the role healthcare professionals have in the safe use of medicines. Recently, he has focused on the patient experience of adverse drug reactions.

Other activities

Honorary Pharmacovigilance Pharmacist, West Midlands Centre for Adverse Drug Reactions and Yellow Card Centre West Midlands.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Jiamsathit, W, Bunarong, K, Papenkort, S, Cox, AR & Jarernsiripornkul, N 2025, '', Journal of Clinical Medicine, vol. 14, no. 3, 857.

Srisuriyachanchai, W, Cox, AR & Jarernsiripornkul, N 2024, '', Journal of Clinical Medicine, vol. 13, no. 14, 4165.

Ratansi, M & Cox, AR 2023, '', RPS Pharmacy and Pharmacology Reports, vol. 2, no. 2, rqad018, pp. 1-4.

Srisuriyachanchai, W, Cox, A & Jarernsiripornkul, N 2022, '', Healthcare, vol. 10, no. 6, 1077.

Sandhu, D, Antolin, A, Cox, A & Jones, AM 2022, '', British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, vol. 88, no. 2, pp. 742-752.

O鈥橠onovan, B, Rodgers, RM, Cox, AR & Krska, J 2022, '', British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.

Donovan, BO, Rodgers, RM, Cox, AR & Krska, J 2022, '', British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, vol. 88, no. 7, pp. 3434-3446.

Cox, AR & Ferner, R 2021, '', BMJ evidence-based medicine, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. E17.

Alshahrani, F, Marriott, J & Cox, A 2020, '', International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy.

Rosenbloom, C, Morley, F, Ahmed, I & Cox, A 2020, '', International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 561-568.

O鈥橠onovan, B, Rodgers, RM, Cox, A & Krska, J 2019, '', Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety, vol. 28, no. 7, pp. 1023-1031.

Abstract

Medani, AR, Cox, A & Jalal, Z 2020, '', International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, vol. 28, no. S1, pp. 51-52.

Other chapter contribution

Jalal, Z, Cox, A, Goel, N, Vaitha, N, King, K & Ward, J 2019, . in Special Issue: Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Health Services Research & Pharmacy Practice Conference, 8鈥�9 April 2019, Birmingham, UK. S2 edn, vol. 27, International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, Wiley, pp. 20-21, Health Services Research & Pharmacy Practice Conference, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 8/04/19.

Other contribution

Medani, AR, Cox, A & Jalal, Z 2019, . PROSPERO.

Review article

Alruqayb, WS, Price, MJ, Paudyal, V & Cox, AR 2021, '', Drug Safety, vol. 44, no. 10, pp. 1041鈥�1058.

Expertise

drug safety; pharmacovigilance; pharmacy; medicines; patient safety

Media experience

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