Pharmacy Daily | Vale Ross Brown as PSA pays tribute

THE Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) has paid tribute to Ross Brown who passed away over the weekend.

Brown was PSA's second National President (1979-1980), and a NSW branch councillor for 40 years, one of Australia's highest-ranked Army Reserve officers, and a former Director and Deputy Board Chair at Australian Pharmaceutical Industries (API).

Since his registration in 1952, he helped develop Australian pharmacy into what we know today, pioneering the use of computers when he oversaw the installation of the country's second-ever IBM 360 computer at API, the PSA stated.

National President Dr Fei Sim said in tribute, "Ross Brown was an inspiration".

"He set the foundation for the PSA during his years as our National President and we will always remember the significant contribution he has made to the profession more broadly.

"He is widely recognised as one of the greatest modern contributors to the combined development of pharmacy professional services, corporate pharmacy, military pharmacy and academic pharmacy in New South Wales and Australia.

"Ross was a tireless advocate, his support was instrumental to the success of the University of Sydney's Pharmacy School and the Pharmacy Practice Foundation, as well as the establishment of the Ross Brown Scholarship for elite athletes studying pharmacy," Sim said.