APPEL Team

Louisa Power joined APPEL as the Director and National Coordinator in 2026. She is a registered pharmacist and healthcare leader with extensive experience in pharmacy practice, professional education and workforce development. Prior to joining APPEL, she held a number of senior leadership roles, leading programmes, multidisciplinary teams and strategic initiatives focused on professional competence, education and service improvement. Throughout her career, she has worked closely with healthcare professionals, educators, regulators and representative bodies to develop and deliver innovative education and training programmes that support the evolving needs of the healthcare workforce.

Louisa brings significant experience in stakeholder engagement, programme management and organisational leadership, with a proven track record of building partnerships, driving change and delivering quality outcomes. She is passionate about advancing pharmacy education and supporting the development of future generations of pharmacists through excellence in experiential learning and professional practice.

Rachel joined the APPEL team as Operations Coordinator in early 2018. Rachel joined us from a start-up healthcare company where she helped to establish their Customer Care Department, training processes, and communications. With previous experience in the financial and tourism industries, Rachel has extensive administration and coordination experience. She holds a BA in French and Music from Trinity College Dublin, a Higher Diploma in Psychology from Dublin Business School, and a Diploma in Project Management from IBAT.  She is currently studying for a Professional Diploma in Positive Health. In 2022, Rachel was promoted to Operations Manager for APPEL.

Balazs joined the APPEL team as Operations Coordinator in early 2023. He was previously managing localization projects for a leading social media platform, and also has 6 years of tech support experience from the tech industry as well as startup background from his native country of Hungary. He holds a BSc in IT engineering from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, is a certified business analyst, PRINCE2 project manager and technical translator.

Conor joined the APPEL team as Operations Support Pharmacist in early 2025 and has over 7 years’ experience across a variety of settings within the Irish pharmacy landscape. Conor is a graduate of the APPEL Programme and completed his MPharm in Trinity College Dublin, where he gained experience of community pharmacy and pharmaceutical consulting roles, through his own experiential placements. After registration Conor was worked as a pharmacist across a number of community pharmacy settings as well as clinical outpatient dispensing and project-based roles.

James is a Practice Educator at the RCSI and has almost 15 years’ experience in community pharmacy. James has worked in a number of roles since graduation – within independent and large multiple community pharmacies and most recently as part of the APPEL Operations Team. He completed his degree in pharmacy at Trinity College Dublin

Ruth is a Practice Educator at UCC and has over 20 years’ experience in academia, industry and community pharmacy in Ireland, the UK, New Zealand and Australia including stints at both the School of Pharmacy in University of Auckland and University College Cork. She has also worked in International Pharmaceutical Marketing and Distribution and in On-line Pharmacy. In her most recent role she worked as a Business Manager for 10 years in one of the largest community pharmacy multiples on the island of Ireland. She has an MSc in Business and Management, a Green Belt in Lean Six Sigma, a certificate in Training Delivery and Evaluation and a PG Cert in T&L in Higher Education. Ruth continues to work as a community pharmacist.

Anne Teresa is a Practice Educator at the RCSI and has 20 years’ experience in community pharmacy. Anne Teresa has worked in a number of roles within community pharmacy, most recently as RCSI Teacher practitioner with a large multiple, being responsible for training of pharmacy undergraduate student and pharmacy interns. She completed her degree in pharmacy at Queens University Belfast and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy from De Montefort University.

Eimear is an Assistant Professor (Practice Educator) in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Trinity College Dublin and also practices part-time as a pharmacist with the HSE Addiction Services. After completing an internship in hospital Eimear moved into community pharmacy and has worked in a number of roles within both independent pharmacies and large chain multiples. Eimear has undertaken an MSc (Community Pharmacy) with Trinity and is currently pursuing a post-graduate qualification in Global Health Policy with the University of London.