Associate Professor Daniel Malone is the Director of the Pharmacy degree at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, and as such is responsible for the education of over 1000 undergraduate pharmacy students. He is a registered pharmacist and completed his PhD in neuropharmacology in 2000. In addition to numerous university and faculty teaching awards, he has won an Australian Government Office of Learning and Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning, and in 2022 led a team that won the American Associated Colleges of Pharmacy Innovation in Teaching Award, the first time this has been awarded to a team outside of the USA. His research focuses on exploring ways to improve the education of pharmacy students, in particularly regarding authentic assessment methods, improving cultural capability and professionalism in pharmacy students. He has published over 50 papers in well-respected peer reviewed journals.