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Zoe is an experienced pharmacist, researcher and advanced clinical practitioner who works as a clinical academic in West Yorkshire. She worked in community pharmacy until 2014 before moving to be the country’s first Research Pharmacist on an NIHR programme grant to support patients with advanced cancer pain. Zoe completed her PhD by published works on person-centred interventions for patients with advanced cancer pain in 2020 and continued to work on several programme grants supporting patients with cancer pain and heart failure. Zoe moved into primary care in 2021 but continued her close links with academia by maintaining honorary roles at the Universities of Bradford and Dundee. She worked as a practice pharmacist before completing her MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice. She became Clinical Research Lead for her large, highly research active Primary Care Network in 2024 and also has a role for the Regional Research Delivery Network as Pharmacy Lead helping other pharmacists start their research path. Since moving into primary care her own research interests have become more focused on chronic pain. She received the inaugural NIHR Senior Clinical and Practitioner Research Award in 2024 allowing 3 years funding to work on Fibromyalgia. Her aim is to improve the evidence-based guidance for clinicians when treating this and to apply for further funding for a larger multi-disciplinary, multicomponent intervention to investigate this further. Zoe has published extensively and continues to do this alongside her role in primary care. Alongside pain, she also has interests in medicines optimisation, medicines shortages and promoting research involvement in primary care.