Dr Malcolm Gillies[/caption]
PSA SA/NT Pharmacist of the Year Natasha Downing MPS[/caption]
PSA SA/NT ECP of the Year Raymond Truong MPS[/caption]
PSA SA/NT Intern of the YearChloe Hall MPS[/caption]
PSA SA/NT Lifetime Achievment Award recipient Peter Halstead FPS[/caption]
Pharmaceutical Society Gold Medal recipient Amelia Thompson[/caption]
Prof Danchin is a consultant paediatrician at the Royal Children’s Hospital and Clinician Scientist, University of Melbourne.
Overview of the categories 
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Patient considerations
Professor Lisa Nissen FPS[/caption]
Dr Jean Spinks[/caption]
A new study found people who smoke are 1.4 times more likely to have severe symptoms of COVID-19 and about 2.4 times more likely to be admitted to an intensive care unit, need mechanical ventilation or die compared to non-smokers.
With the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, working as a consultant pharmacist in residential aged care facilities (RACFs) suddenly became a professional challenge for Melbourne’s Neil Petrie MPS.
Airport pharmacists-in-charge, like Andrew Lieu MPS, were initially frontline defence.
Aggressive consumers wanting quantities of ‘just in case’ medicines amid COVID-19 panic has added considerably to workplace stress.
COVID-19 has fostered an even closer relationship between the pharmacy and wards of the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
It’s 10 am at Scott-Dibben Chemist in Newcastle, New South Wales, and emails of prescriptions are already pinging into the inbox.
Pharmacists can now conduct funded medication reviews via video or teleconference, in a move that will bolster medicine safety as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.
Juggling study and full-time work as an intern pharmacist is always challenging, but add a global pandemic and things become more difficult.
Pharmacist immunisers in Queensland will be the first in Australia to provide the pneumococcal vaccination, and will also be able to administer a COVID-19 vaccine when the first becomes available, the state’s health minister said on Saturday.
Australia’s Chief Health Officer has approved an amendment to PBS prescription requirements for telehealth consultations as an emergency measure during the COVID-19 response.
