Dr Esther Lau
Senior Lecturer and Program Lead, MClinPharm & Associate Professor
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Affiliate of Centre for the Business and Economics of Health
Centre for the Business and Economics of Health
+61 7 344 38592
Book Chapter
Poudel, Arjun, Lau, Esther T.L., Kyle, Gregory J. and Nissen, Lisa M. (2019). Pharmacy Practice in Australia and New Zealand. Encyclopedia of Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Pharmacy. (pp. 488-498) Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-812735-3.00729-9
Journal Articles
Malouh, Marwa A., Cichero, Julie A. Y., Reuter, Stephanie E., Weng, Min-Tz, Lau, Esther T. L., Nissen, Lisa M. and Steadman, Kathryn J. (2025). Does using oral medication lubricants to swallow whole or crushed tablets alter drug absorption in vivo? A randomised, single-dose crossover bioequivalence study in healthy adults. Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology, 104 106552, 106552-104. doi: 10.1016/j.jddst.2024.106552
DelDot, Megan, Lau, Esther, Rayner, Nicole, Spinks, Jean, Kelly, Fiona and Nissen, Lisa (2024). Consumer involvement in the design and development of medication safety interventions or services in primary care: a scoping review. Health Expectations, 27 (6) e70092. doi: 10.1111/hex.70092
Spinks, Jean M., Lau, Esther T. L., Glass, Beverley D. and Nissen, Lisa M. (2024). Evaluating the management of urinary tract infections by community pharmacists in Queensland, Australia. Pharmacy Practice, 22 (4) 3064, 1-10. doi: 10.18549/PharmPract.2024.4.3064
Malouh, Marwa A., Cichero, Julie A. Y., Sun, Yu, Lau, Esther T. L., Nissen, Lisa M. and Steadman, Kathryn J. (2024). Medication lubricants for oral delivery of drugs: oral processing reduces thickness, changes characteristics, and improves dissolution profile. Pharmaceutics, 16 (3) 417. doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics16030417
Malouh, Marwa A., Sefidani Forough, Aida, Cichero, Julie A. Y., Lau, Esther T. L., Nissen, Lisa M. and Steadman, Kathryn J. (2023). The prevalence and perceived effectiveness of using a medication‐swallowing lubricant in aged care facilities across Australia. Aging medicine, 6 (3), 239-244. doi: 10.1002/agm2.12261
Patounas, Marea, Lau, Esther T. L., Rigby, Deborah, Chan, Vincent and Nissen, Lisa M. (2023). Development and trial of an instrument to evaluate accredited pharmacists' clinical home medicines review reports in Australia. Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research, 53 (1), 32-38. doi: 10.1002/jppr.1829
Singleton, Judith A., Lau, Esther T.-L. and Nissen, Lisa M. (2021). Do legislated carbon reduction targets influence pro-environmental behaviours in public hospital pharmacy departments? Using mixed methods to compare Australia and the UK. PLoS One, 16 (8 August) e0255445. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0255445
Patounas, Marea, Lau, Esther T., Chan, Vincent, Rigby, Deborah, Kyle, Gregory J., Khatri, Jyoti, Poudel, Arjun and Nissen, Lisa M. (2021). Home medicines reviews: a national survey of Australian accredited pharmacists’ health service time investment. Pharmacy Practice, 19 (3) 2376, 2376. doi: 10.18549/pharmpract.2021.3.2376
Singleton, Judith A., Lau, Esther T. L. and Nissen, Lisa M. (2021). Exploring Australian pharmacists' perceptions and attitudes towards dispensing HIV medicines in the community setting. Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research, 51 (3), 238-246. doi: 10.1002/jppr.1711
Singleton, Judith A., Khng, Sherley, McCourt, Elizabeth M., Watson, Kaitlyn E. and Lau, Esther T.L. (2020). Still Burning: An Exploration of the Impacts of the 2018/2019 Tasmanian Summer Bushfires on Community Pharmacy Operations in Affected Communities. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 35 (6), 612-618. doi: 10.1017/S1049023X20001077
Malouh, Marwa A., Cichero, Julie A.Y., Manrique, Yady J., Crino, Lucia, Lau, Esther T. L., Nissen, Lisa M. and Steadman, Kathryn J. (2020). Are medication swallowing lubricants suitable for use in dysphagia? Consistency, viscosity, texture, and application of the International Dysphagia Diet Standardization Initiative (IDDSI) Framework. Pharmaceutics, 12 (10) 924, 1-18. doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics12100924
Sefidani Forough, Aida, Lau, Esther T. L., Steadman, Kathryn J., Kyle, Greg J., Cichero, Julie A. Y., Serrano Santos, Jose Manuel and Nissen, Lisa M. (2020). Factors affecting Australian aged care facility workers in administering oral medication to residents with swallowing difficulties. Research in Nursing and Health, 43 (4) nur.22042, 419-430. doi: 10.1002/nur.22042
Sefidani Forough, Aida, Lau, Esther T. L., Steadman, Kathryn J., Kyle, Greg J., Cichero, Julie A. Y., Serrano Santos, Jose Manuel and Nissen, Lisa M. (2020). Factors that affect health-care workers’ practices of medication administration to aged care residents with swallowing difficulties: an Australia-wide survey study. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 40 (1) ajag.12856, e79-e86. doi: 10.1111/ajag.12856
Poudel, Arjun, Lau, Esther T. L., Deldot, Megan, Campbell, Chris, Waite, Nancy M. and Nissen, Lisa M. (2019). Pharmacist role in vaccination: evidence and challenges. Vaccine, 37 (40), 5939-5945. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.08.060
Lau, Esther T.L., Tan, Shirin H., Antwertinger, Yasmin J., Hall, Tony and Nissen, Lisa M. (2019). Counseling interactions between patients living with persistent pain and pharmacists in Australia: are we on the same page?. Journal of Pain Research, 12, 2441-2455. doi: 10.2147/jpr.s199017
Smith, Harriet, Whyte, Stephen, Chan, Ho Fai, Kyle, Gregory, Lau, Esther T. L., Nissen, Lisa M., Torgler, Benno and Dulleck, Uwe (2019). Pharmacist Compliance with Therapeutic Guidelines on Diagnosis and Treatment Provision. JAMA Network Open, 2 (7) e197168. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.7168
Nissen, Michael D., Lau, Esther T. L., Cabot, Peter J. and Steadman, Kathryn J. (2019). Baltic amber teething necklaces: could succinic acid leaching from beads provide anti-inflammatory effects?. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 19 (1) 162, 162. doi: 10.1186/s12906-019-2574-9
Singleton, Judith A., Lau, Esther T.L. and Nissen, Lisa M. (2018). Waiter, there is a drug in my soup – using Leximancer® to explore antecedents to pro-environmental behaviours in the hospital pharmacy workplace. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 26 (4), 341-350. doi: 10.1111/ijpp.12395
Lau, Esther, Steadman, Kathryn J. and Nissen, Lisa M. (2018). Crushing and dispersing medicines. Australian Pharmacist, 37 (3), 46-50.
Forough, Aida Sefidani, Wong, Simon Y. M., Lau, Esther T. L., Santos, Jose Manuel Serrano, Kyle, Greg J., Steadman, Kathryn J., Cichero, Julie A. Y. and Nissen, Lisa M. (2018). Nurse experiences of medication administration to people with swallowing difficulties living in aged care facilities: a systematic review of qualitative evidence. JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports, 16 (1), 71-86. doi: 10.11124/JBISRIR-2016-003334
Lau, Esther and Hall, Tony (2017). Opioid rotation is not an exact science. Australian Journal of Pharmacy, 98 (1168), 65-68.
Lau, Esther T.L., Rochin, Michelle E., DelDot, Megan, Glass, Beverley D. and Nissen, Lisa M. (2017). "There's no touching in pharmacy": Training pharmacists for Australia's first pharmacist immunization pilot. Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy, 70 (4), 281-287. doi: 10.4212/cjhp.v70i4.1678
Lau, Esther T. L., Johnson, Stuart K., Williams, Barbara, Mikkelsen, Deirdre, McCourt, Elizabeth, Stanley, Roger, Mereddy, Ram, Halley, Peter J. and Steadman, Kathryn (2017). Optimizing prednisolone loading into distiller’s dried grain kafirin microparticles, and in vitro release for oral delivery. Pharmaceutics, 9 (2) 17, 17. doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics9020017
Lau, Esther and Hall, Tony (2017). Persistent pain management: We need a paradigm shift!. Australian Journal of Pharmacy, 98 (1161), 84-87.
Whyte, Stephen, Lau, Esther T.L., Nissen, Lisa M. and Torgler, Benno (2017). You should know better! Do health students have different risk attitudes to unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases?. Applied Economics Letters, 24 (21), 1526-1532. doi: 10.1080/13504851.2017.1305085
Nissen, Lisa M. and Lau, Esther T. L. (2016). Emerging roles for pharmacists - All in a day’s work. Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research, 46 (4), 310-310. doi: 10.1002/jppr.1295
Lau, Esther T. L., Johnson, Stuart K., Stanley, Roger A., Mereddy, Ram, Mikkelsen, Deirdre, Halley, Peter J. and Steadman, Kathryn J. (2015). Formulation and characterization of drug-loaded microparticles using distillers dried grain kafirin. Cereal Chemistry, 92 (3), 246-252. doi: 10.1094/CCHEM-05-14-0096-R
Lau, Esther T. L., Steadman, Kathryn J., Mak, Marilyn, Cichero, Julie A. Y. and Nissen, Lisa M. (2015). Prevalence of swallowing difficulties and medication modification in customers of community pharmacy. Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research, 45 (1), 18-23. doi: 10.1002/jppr.1052
Lau, Esther T. L., Johnson, Stuart K., Stanley, Roger A., Mikkelsen, Deirdre, Fang, Zhongxiang, Halley, Peter J. and Steadman, Kathryn J. (2015). Preparation and in vitro release of drug-loaded microparticles for oral delivery using wholegrain sorghum kafirin protein. International Journal of Polymer Science, 2015 343647, 1-8. doi: 10.1155/2015/343647
Nguyen, Thi-My-Uyen, Lau, Esther T. L., Steadman, Kathryn J., Cichero, Julie A.Y., Dingle, Kaeleen and Nissen, Lisa M. (2014). Pharmacist, general practitioner, and nurse perceptions, experiences, and knowledge of medication dosage form modification. Integrated Pharmacy Research and Practice, 3, 1-9. doi: 10.2147/IPRP.S53797
Lau, Esther T. L., Giddings, Steven J., Mohammed, Salmaan G., Dubois, Paul, Johnson, Stuart K., Stanley, Roger A., Halley, Peter J. and Steadman, Kathryn J. (2013). Encapsulation of hydrocortisone and mesalazine in zein capsules. Pharmaceutics, 5 (2), 277-293. doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics5020277
Lau, Esther T. L., Jones, Anthea L., Kairuz, Therese, Nissen, Lisa M. and Steadman, Kathryn J. (2013). Compounding practices in Queensland: experiences and perceptions of pharmacists and pharmacy students. Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research, 43 (1), 19-24. doi: 10.1002/j.2055-2335.2013.tb00209.x
Lau, Esther and Steadman, Kathryn (2012). Inflammatory bowel disease: where we are now?. Australian Pharmacist, 31 (7), 572-576.
Lau, Esther T. L., Johnson, Stuart K., Mikkelsen, Deirdre, Halley, Peter J. and Steadman, Kathryn J. (2012). Preparation and in vitro release of zein microparticles loaded with prednisolone for oral delivery. Journal of Microencapsulation, 29 (7), 706-712. doi: 10.3109/02652048.2012.686527
Thesis
Lau, Esther Tsing-Lim (2012). Targeted release of medications using delivery systems based on proteins derived from maize and sorghum seeds. PhD Thesis, School of Pharmacy, The University of Queensland.