The Faculty of Pharmacy would like to acknowledge one of our pharmacy alumni A/Professor Michael Dawson, who passed away recently. Michael will be sadly missed by his peers, former colleagues, as well as the many students who benefited from his teaching.
The University of Sydney has recently awarded a prestigious Thompson Fellowship to Associate Professor Alaina Ammit. The Fellowships aim to promote and enhance the careers of academic women.
Mr. Gerard Stevens, Managing Director of Webstercare, and Chair of the Dean's Community Pharmacy Reference Group at the Faculty of Pharmacy, has recently been acknowledged both nationally and internationally for his contributions to the pharmacy profession
Professor Chan, Professor in Pharmaceutics at the Faculty of Pharmacy, together with Dr Runyu Y Yang from the University of New South Wales, have recently been successful in attracting a ARC Discovery Grant to further their research project on powder aerosol inhalers.
Dr Mary Bebawy, A/Prof Mary Collins and Dr Ingrid Gelissen of the Faculty of Pharmacy have been successful as Chief Investigators in the recent NHMRC Project grant round. Professor Joanne Brien and Dr Thomas Grewal were also successful as collaborators on grants lead by other researchers.
The Faculty of Pharmacy celebrated it's 10th Anniversary and officially launched its newly named Faculty of Pharmacy Foundation with a formal dinner in MacLaurin Hall last Thursday, 7 October.
The Faculty of Pharmacy has been extremely fortunate over the past ten years to have had the assistance and collegiality of Donald Evans. Don has made an outstanding contribution to pharmacy and pharmacy education over a generation.
Jonathan Penm, a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Pharmacy, has just been awarded the FIP Young Pharmacists Group (YPG) Grant for Professional Innovation 2010.
Preparations are underway for the Pharmacy social event of the year! Make sure you get your ticket for the 10th Anniversary celebration, which will be held on October 7th 2010 at the University of Sydney.
The Faculty of Pharmacy has introduced a new Graduate Certificate in Pharmacy Practice program, incorporating an Internship Training Program for pharmacy graduates, with first enrolments to commence in 2011.
The Faculty of Pharmacy invites all current Pharmacy students to attend the University of Sydney Health Careers and Research Forum - 12 August 2010, 4.00-6.30pm
Interested in becoming a pharmacist? Applications for the Master of Pharmacy program close at the end of August. Information sessions on the application processes and course content will be held at the Faculty from Thursday 29th July.
A public lecture at the University of Sydney will outline research melding the 2000-year old practices of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) with IT-based bioinformatics.
Renewing the code of ethics for pharmacists in the wake of the recent changes to healthcare legislation will be among the topics considered at a wide-ranging ethics conference at the University of Sydney today and tomorrow.
A delegation from the Guangdong Provincial Government led by the Vice Director-General of the Department of Science and Technology, Mr. Min Zhang, visited the Faculty of Pharmacy on 1 June 2010.
The University of Sydney, Monash University, The University of Queensland and the University of South Australia have recently founded the National Alliance for Pharmacy Education (NAPE).
Final year student Erin Fitzpatrick has won the University's Pharmacy Student of the Year (PSOTY) competition. This national competition is organised by the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia and is open to all final year pharmacy students.
Staff at the Faculty of Pharmacy welcomed colleagues from the University of North Carolina, the University of Wisconsin and the University of Leeds to the WUN five-day working conference in Sydney.
The University of Sydney's American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Student Chapter has recently elected a new management committee and held its first official activity on Thursday 22nd April
The Faculty of Pharmacy celebrated the achievements of students, staff and for the first time, its alumni, at its Annual Awards Ceremony on Tuesday 4th May.
The second edition 'Medication Review - A Process Guide for Pharmacists' written by Dr Tim Chen, Dr Rebekah Moles, Dr Prasad Nishtala and Mr Ben Basger from the Faculty of Pharmacy has just been published by the PSA.
The Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Sydney was contacted recently by ninemsn.com to ask for help in identifying the components of a sample of what was believed to be an illegal drug-containing powder known as 'Ivory Wave'.
On Friday, 5th February, pharmacy students from the University of Sydney who are currently on a fourteen-day pilot exchange program, visited the Niederberg Clinic in Velbert, in North West Germany.
Professor Kelvin Chan has recently been appointed to the position of Joint Chair in Traditional Chinese Medicine at the Faculty of Pharmacy. This is a joint appointment between the University of Sydney and the University of Western Sydney. The position is funded by the NSW Office of Science and Medical Research, (OSMR).