PAC10 goes off!
October 29, 2010
THE kick-off of PAC10 has seen
South Australian pharmacist,
Vivienne Mak, named as the
Pharmaceutical Society of
Australia’s Young Pharmacist of
the Year.
Presented by the Governor-
General of Australia, Quentin
Bryce, the award recognised Mak’s
dedication and commitment to
pharmacy.
Mak graduated in 2006, and
worked as a full time community
pharmacist, before returning to
university to complete a PhD in
pharmacy practice.
Recently Mak received the
Australian Postgraduate Award and
Sansom Pharmacy Fund Research
Scholarship to pursue a Doctor of
Philosophy in Pharmacy.
“I am passionate about the
future of the pharmacy profession
and have an immense interest in
improving the direction of
pharmacy and the way
pharmacists practice,” said Mak.
MEANWHILE Sydney pharmacist
Gerard Stevens was awarded the
Pharmaceutical Society of
Australia’s Lifetime Achievement
Award, primarily for his innovative
introduction of the Webster
medication packaging system.
The PSA said the innovation
“reduces nursing home medication
administration errors, allows
collaboration with allied health
professionals, reduces medication
wastage and government costs, and
encourages better use of pharmacists’
clinical and educative skills”.
The first sessions of PAC10 also
heralded the announcement of a
range of initiatives aimed at aiding
pharmacists to embrace industry
change and secure the future of
the profession.
The “PSA will be a significant
funder of a major long-term,
awareness campaign which intends
to change policymakers’ outdated
views of pharmacists,” said PSA
president Warwick Plunkett.
The PSA, according to Plunkett,
will also implement measures to
assist members put in place “new
systems, models and patient
focused pathways, linking more
closely with medical colleagues
that will maximise their
remuneration base and their
service delivery to the community”.
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