Working within respiratory and oncology teams prior to palliative care, Michaela had a growing awareness of the overuse of medicines in progressively declining patients increasingly more likely to experience harm rather than benefit from the medicine.  Now embedded within the Central Adelaide Palliative Care Service, she has a focus on reducing poor health outcomes along with patient and carer burden and distress through optimising the quality use of medicines. Michaela is currently researching patient and carer medication information needs as well as exploring how patients, carers and GPs can maximise the benefits of Accredited Pharmacist delivered Home Medicines Reviews.