Pharmaceutical Society

Auckland hospital pharmacist Michael Hammond is the new president of the Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand

Pharmacists have elected two new members to the Pharmaceutical Society’s national executive

The Pharmaceutical Society is setting up an education advisory group following concerns about the performance of interns at Assessment Centres, and a new education manager has also been appointed. The society is training fewer interns but more technicians this year

Pharmaceutical Society members have until 28 March to elect a new board member for the national executive

Wellington Hospital’s pharmacy clinical team leader Kathryn Lawrie has been made a Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand. She spoke to Paulette Crowley about her passion for hospital pharmacy and working proactively with patients

The wheels are in motion to replace Pharmaceutical Society president Rhiannon Braund, who is resigning to take on a new position. The University of Otago professor, who works at the New Zealand Pharmacovigilance Centre, will be preparing to head up the country’s third pharmacy school in Waikato from May. 

Pharmacist educator Liz Johnstone has retired from the Pharmaceutical Society after nearly 20 years of working full time there and has also shut the door on a 44-year career in community pharmacy

Nominations are open for a new executive member of the Pharmaceutical Society to replace outgoing president Rhiannon Braund, who has resigned early

The wheels are in motion to replace Pharmaceutical Society president Rhiannon Braund, who is resigning to take on a new position

Pharmaceutical Society president Rhiannon Braund, currently a professor at the University of Otago, will lead the University of Waikato’s pharmacy school, as Natasha Jojoa Burling reports