Events & conferences

Conferences and events of interest to the pharmacy sector

Pharmaceutical Society symposia

Details of venues as follows - mark your diaries now!

Dunedin - Sunday 19th May in the Otago Daily Times Gallery and Conference Room at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 30 the Octagon, Dunedin 9016.
Wellington - Sunday 26th May in Chancellor 1 and 3 at the James Cook Hotel Grand Chancellor, 147 the Terrace, Wellington.
Auckland - Sunday 9th June in the Great Rooms at the Langham Hotel, 83 Symonds Street, Auckland.
Tauranga - Sunday 23rd June in the combined Trinity Rooms and Exhibition Hall at the Trinity Wharf Hotel, Tauranga.

NZHPA Pharmacists in Mental Health Seminar

29 and 30 June

West Plaza Hotel, 110-116 Wakefield St. Wellington

The registration form and programme are available on the NZHPA website:
www.nzhpa.org.nz under Conferences & Meetings

For more information, contact helen.dunn@ccdhb.org.nz

New Zealand's 17th Travel Medicine Conference - Complexities and Challenges in the Dynamic World of Travel Medicine

5 to 7July

Heritage Hotel, Auckland

Extreme destinations, adventurous and unique traveller types, complex medical histories, changing bugs and continuing outbreaks.

This year's Travel Medicine Conference focuses on the increasing challenges these complex situations can present to us in our everyday practice as clinicians.

Academic course covering global travel, exotic diseases and prevention involving region-specific case studies, practical skill-station learning, expedition and wilderness medicine and much more!

An exceptional line up of International experts:

Professor Eric Caumes
Professor Dennis Shanks
Professor Nicholas Zwar
Professor Peter Leggat

In addition, a variety of industry professionals ensure this valuable conference should not be missed by anyone interested in this field of medicine!!!

Programme and registration details http://www.worldwise.co.nz/conference.asp

Email online@worldwise.co.nz or phone Clare 09 520 5830

New Zealand Society of Travel Medicine Conference

Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th August

Te Papa in Wellington

Topics will include Vaccination for Travel, Vaccination for Life, Travellers' Diarrhoea - Can anything be done? Yellow Fever, Safety and Travel Health, Travel Health from a Guides Perspective, Volunteerism, Malarial Chemoprophylaxsis, Refugee and Migrant Health, the Returning Traveller and breakout sessions. A Yellow Fever workshop will be held on Sunday after lunch.

A draft programme is now available on the NZSTM website - www.nztravelmedicine.co.nz

Please register online at: https://nzstm-conference-2013.lilregie.com/step1 or contact Tanya for more details: nzstm@bgamarketing.co.nz

NZHPA - Matters of the Heart- A Cardiology Themed Meeting

Palmerston North Hospital
3 and 4 August 2013

Plenary sessions
Pharmacogenetics and personalised medicine: Dr Patrick Gladding, cardiologist
Rheumatic Fever Update: public health physician
Pharmacist prescribing: Pauline McQuoid

Collaborative MI/clinical workshops
Two presentation streams
Updates on: ACS, NSTEMI, AF, Heart failure
Special interest updates (TBC): Interventional, STEMI, anti-arrhythmics,end stage heart failure/pulmonary hypertension

Breakfast AGM meeting
Enquiries to Sarah Roberts Sarah.Roberts@waitematadhb.govt.nz or Chloe Campbell Chloe.Campbell@ccdhb.org.nz or Annie Egan annette.egan@nmhs.govt.nz

Registrations will be open from 15 May 2013

Pharmacybrands Annual Conference

6 to 8 Septemeber

Gold Coast - details to come.

The 50yrs Reunion of Petone Pharmacy School

Tuesday 15th to Thursday 17th of October 2013

Sebel Heritage Resort in the Yarra Valley, Melbourne, Australia

Calling all pharmacists who attended the New Zealand School of Pharmacy in Petone from when it first opened in 1960 to 1965, to a whopping reunion. It includes graduates who became registered from 1964 up to and including 1968 and includes those completing apprenticeships under the old scheme during that time.

Ex students email Alan Hurdle at LAKONDA@bigpond.net.au or contact Warren Flaunty at chemist@xtra.co.nz or phone 021 999 246

Visit a new website for more information on the reunion