Treating the foot and ankle is an important part of care — but prescribing decisions rarely stop there.

What looks like a simple script for a skin, soft tissue or surgical issue can quickly become something else entirely — a puzzle of polypharmacy, poor organ function, past prescribers, and patient priorities. This session is about shifting from foot-focused fixes to full-person prescribing — where clinical confidence comes not just from knowing the list, but knowing how to think beyond it.

Each choice can influence physiology, pharmacology, and the person behind the prescription. We’ll explore how to ask smarter questions, access better information, and approach prescribing through a whole-person, team-based lens. Because guidelines are great — until they don’t quite fit. And available doesn’t always mean appropriate.

This session is designed to help you feel clearer, more connected, and better equipped to make decisions that hold up in real life — where you’re not just part of the treatment plan, you’re part of the team.

Whether you're prescribing regularly, newly endorsed, or just prescribing-curious — this one’s for you.

2024 Australian Consultant Pharmacist of the Year for her advocacy in advancing the scope of Pharmacists within multidisciplinary teams and improving health outcomes for rural Australians.

She enjoys a portfolio career that includes Home Medicine Review (HMR), GP Pharmacist consulting at Ontario Medical Clinic, and her role as a Clinical Pharmacist at Beyond Pain. She also serves as a PSA (Vic) Branch Committee Member, a member of the national Policy & Advocacy Committee for PSA, and a Board Director of Pharmaceutical Society of Victoria and Pharmacy Support Services. Brooke is also a member of the Clinical Advisory Committee for the Murray PHN and a member of the Monash Rural Health School’s Community Advisory Council. She is an Adjunct Senior lecturer at La Trobe Rural Health School and has recently been appointed to the Advisory Network of the National Rural Health Commissioner. She regularly presents at pharmacy and rural health conferences.

Multidisciplinary team-based care is best practice for patients with chronic disease, and Brooke is privileged to be the medicines expert within these teams. At OMC, she is involved in pre-consultations with patients, reviewing their history and pathology, and collaborating with GPs to optimize medication therapy. Brooke also trains GP registrars, nurses, and medical students in chronic disease management and oversees the PIP QI program. She is passionate about educating the next generation of GPs on the benefits of interprofessional collaboration and integrating allied health professionals into primary care.

Brooke strongly advocates for bridging the gap between city and rural health, where the need for innovative models of care is abundantly clear. Brooke champions the cause to see positive change in the future of pharmacy & the diversification of the traditional pharmacist role, particularly, to support the realization of GP Pharmacist Collaborative Prescribing for patients in rural Australia to improve timely access to quality primary care.