Dr Jennifer Ong
Jennifer is a registered pharmacist and academic at the University of Sydney. She is involved in teaching and curriculum development for palliative care at the Sydney Pharmacy School. Her research involves conducting clinical studies which generates evidence to support the delivery of high-quality care to people at the end-of-life, in a holistic manner through pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches. She is interested in multidisciplinary primary palliative care, compassionate communities and the public health approach to palliative care. She has also completed the introductory course in Clinical Pastoral Education.
Supportive care, palliative care, primary palliative care, hospice care, compassionate communities, public health palliative care
Jennifer teaches the palliative approach to healthcare, management of common symptoms at end of life and Mental Health First Aid in the Pharmacy programs.
She is also involved in the supervision of Honours and postgraduate student projects.
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Compassionate Communities and the role of the primary health team: A scoping review
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Drug burden and performance status in the palliative care setting: A retrospective study
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Health professional responses to desire to die statements by patients receiving palliative care
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Design and Implementation of the Palliative Care Curriculum for Undergraduates in Pharmacy (PCC4UPh)
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- Australian Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra) registered pharmacist
- International Association for Hospice & Palliative Care (Lifetime member)
- Member of Psycho-oncology Co-operative Research Group (PoCoG) and End of Life Special Interest Group
Publications
Book Chapters
- Ong, J., Groundwater, P., Hibbs, D. (2015). Phytotherapy Pharmacophores for Major Cellular Drug Targets. In Not known (Eds.), Phytotherapies: Efficacy, Safety, and Regulation, (pp. 268-311). TBC. [More Information]
Journals
- Cheung, J., Thogersen, J., Guerry, E., Thoeming, A., Ong, J. (2024). Educating Pharmacy Students with Museum Collections–A Case for Object-Based Learning. Journal of Museum Education, 49(3), 377-385. [More Information]
- Ong, J., Rego, J., Xu, T., Kumar, S., Ash, K., Saini, B., Yates, P. (2023). Palliative care education in an Australian undergraduate pharmacy curriculum: an exploratory descriptive study. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 31(2), 218-224. [More Information]
- Song, N., Musa, H., Soriano, M., Batger, M., Hawkins, B., Ramzan, I., Hibbs, D., Ong, J. (2023). Safety and efficacy comparisons of intravenous trastuzumab biosimilars to the reference product medicine in treatment-naïve and switch-over patients with breast cancer: a systematic and meta-analysis. Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research. [More Information]
2024
- Cheung, J., Thogersen, J., Guerry, E., Thoeming, A., Ong, J. (2024). Educating Pharmacy Students with Museum Collections–A Case for Object-Based Learning. Journal of Museum Education, 49(3), 377-385. [More Information]
2023
- Ong, J., Rego, J., Xu, T., Kumar, S., Ash, K., Saini, B., Yates, P. (2023). Palliative care education in an Australian undergraduate pharmacy curriculum: an exploratory descriptive study. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 31(2), 218-224. [More Information]
- Song, N., Musa, H., Soriano, M., Batger, M., Hawkins, B., Ramzan, I., Hibbs, D., Ong, J. (2023). Safety and efficacy comparisons of intravenous trastuzumab biosimilars to the reference product medicine in treatment-naïve and switch-over patients with breast cancer: a systematic and meta-analysis. Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research. [More Information]
2022
- Lo, U., Musa, H., Li, J., Gaon, J., Hibbs, D., Ong, J. (2022). Patient beliefs associated with medication hesitancy in palliative care: A systematic review using the theory of planned behavior. Palliative and Supportive Care. [More Information]
- Song, N., Musa, H., Soriano, M., Batger, M., Hawkins, B., Ramzan, I., Hibbs, D., Ong, J. (2022). Safety and efficacy comparisons of rituximab biosimilars to the reference product in patients with cancer: a systematic meta-analysis review. Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research, 52(5), 331-355. [More Information]
2021
- Stanton, S., Du, J., Lai, F., Stanton, G., Hawkins, C., Ong, J., Groundwater, P., Platts, J., Hibbs, D. (2021). Understanding Hygroscopicity of Theophylline via a Novel Cocrystal Polymorph: A Charge Density Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 125(45), 9736-9756. [More Information]
2020
- Lee, K., Tan, E., Hanrahan, J., Chircop, C., Michael, F., Ong, J. (2020). Effect of Antipsychotics and Non-Pharmacotherapy for the Management of Delirium in People Receiving Palliative Care. Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy, 34(4), 225-236. [More Information]
2018
- Du, J., Stanton, S., Williams, P., Ong, J., Groundwater, P., Overgaard, J., Platts, J., Hibbs, D. (2018). Using electron density to predict synthon formation in a 4-hydroxybenzoic acid: 4,4'-bipyridine co-crystal. Crystal Growth and Design, 18(3), 1786-1798. [More Information]
2017
- Wilkinson, S., Barron, M., O'Brien-Brown, J., Janssen, B., Stokes, L., Werry, E., Chishty, M., Skarratt, K., Ong, J., Hibbs, D., Fuller, S., Kassiou, M., et al (2017). Pharmacological evaluation of novel bioisosteres of an adamantanyl benzamide P2X7 receptor antagonist. ACS Chemical Neuroscience, 8(11), 2374-2380. [More Information]
- Reekie, T., Wilkinson, S., Law, V., Hibbs, D., Ong, J., Kassiou, M. (2017). Rapid access to N-(indol-2-yl)amides and N-(indol-3-yl)amides as unexplored pharmacophores. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 15(3), 576-580. [More Information]
2015
- Gao, Q., Hanh, J., Varadi, L., Cairns, R., Sjoestroem, H., Liao, V., Wood, P., Balaban, S., Ong, J., Lin, H., Lai, F., Hoy, A., Grewal, T., Groundwater, P., Hibbs, D. (2015). Identification of dual PPARα/γ agonists and their effects on lipid metabolism. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 23(24), 7676-7684. [More Information]
- Ong, J., Groundwater, P., Hibbs, D. (2015). Phytotherapy Pharmacophores for Major Cellular Drug Targets. In Not known (Eds.), Phytotherapies: Efficacy, Safety, and Regulation, (pp. 268-311). TBC. [More Information]
- Merlot, A., Sahni, S., Lane, D., Fordham, A., Pantarat, N., Hibbs, D., Richardson, V., Doddareddy, M., Ong, J., Huang, M., Richardson, D., Kalinowski, D. (2015). Potentiating the cellular targeting and anti-tumor activity of Dp44mT via binding to human serum albumin: two saturable mechanisms of Dp44mT uptake by cells. Oncotarget, 6(12), 10374-10398. [More Information]
2014
- Austin, C., Kahlert, J., Issa, F., Reed, J., Smith, J., Ioppolo, J., Ong, J., Jamie, J., Hibbs, D., Rendina, L. (2014). The first indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase-1 (IDO1) inhibitors containing carborane. Dalton Transactions, 43(28), 10719-10724. [More Information]
- Gu, R., Hibbs, D., Ong, J., Edwards, R., Murray, M. (2014). The multikinase inhibitor axitinib is a potent inhibitor of human CYP1A2. Biochemical Pharmacology, 88(2), 245-252. [More Information]
Selected Grants
2021
- Co-design and delivery of schizophrenia education with mental health consumers across health curricula: Learning from experience, El-Den S, Schneider C, O'Reilly C, Moles R, Collins J, Chen T, Saini B, Ong J, Scanlan J, McGrath M, McCloughen A, Isobel S, Howard R, Faculty of Medicine and Health/Philanthropy funding scheme
In the media
ABC Religion and Ethics article:Could the legalisation of psychedelics be a step toward “creative dying”?