End of year is almost upon us, and despite the bad run of wet weather, it has done nothing to dampen the spirit or success of our staff and students alike as you will see in the stories that follow in this spring edition of our newsletter.
Highlights include one of our PhD students winning the UQ Final of the 3 Minute Thesis competition; A breakthrough in breast cancer research by one of our research groups led by A/Prof. Sarah Roberts-Thomson and A/Prof Greg Monteith; QPSA 2010 staff awards and one of our 4th Year students, Joe Monteith, was nominated for a Pride of Australia Medal.
I would also like to take this opportunity to let you know that the School of Pharmacy Alumni Network will host 4 more class reunions in 2011. Classes of 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001 will be contacted early in the new year. I look forward to attending these celebrations and hope you will be able to join us.
It gives me pleasure to highlight the opening of an important new centre based at PACE, the Centre for Safe and Effective Prescribing (CSEP), which recognises the important roles of pharmacists in the prescribing process and the quality use of medicines.
2010 has been an exciting time for the School of Pharmacy, but the year is not over yet! Semester 2 exams are slowly creeping up, we also have the Graduation Dinner and then of course Graduation itself – but I will leave the goodbyes for the final installment of our newsletter for 2010. Stay tuned.
I hope you enjoy this edition of the newsletter, and we look forward to keeping in touch.
UQ's top interprofessional student team competed against the nation's best on September 17, at the Australian HealthFusion Team Challenge event, known as OzHFTC, held at PACE.
The event, which was only the second time a national team challenge event has been held, was won by Griffith University, with Monash University winning the Audience Award. Curtin University was awarded a spot in the top three.
UQ's championship Team HEART (Lucy Crocombe - Exercise Physiology, Matthew Mills - Medicine, Kiera Buchanan - Psychology, Thanh Huynh - Pharmacy and Laura Page - Occupational Therapy) performed well. They won the right to represent UQ after defeating six other teams at the UQ competition (The UQ HealthFusion Team Challenge) in August.
Designed to foster teamwork and collaboration among the professions, the HFTC brings students from a wide range of disciplines together to produce a management package for a patient with complex needs.
Each team of four to six students is required to respond to an online case study based on a real-life scenario, which demands both acute and long-term problem solving strategies.
This year's UQ HFTC included representatives from Audiology, Dentistry, Dietetics, Exercise Physiology, Medicine, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Psychology, and Speech Pathology.
Finding a cure for cancer is a hot topic, and School of Pharmacy PhD candidate Tina Wu is looking in an unlikely place for answers.
Ms Wu, an Australian citizen born in Taiwan, recently won the UQ final of the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, allowing her to compete in the Australia & New Zealand final on September 21.
Ms Wu's research has produced a positive model that looks into the over-expression of calcium channels in cancer, specifically breast cancer, and how these channels can be targeted using the active component of hot chilli.
Developed by UQ in 2008, the 3MT is a skills development activity that challenges research higher degree (RHD) students to explain their research project to a non-specialist audience in just three minutes.
“I took part in 3MT this year because I was inspired by a previous runner up in the competition who worked in our lab and I saw how powerful 3MT was at improving public speaking skills and communicating research to a broad audience,” Ms Wu said.
“I think it's a great and fun experience that lets me focus on the key message of my research project; plus now I can tell my family and friends or anyone who is interested in my work what my PhD is about in three minutes.”
Graduating with honours at the University of Sydney, Ms Wu chose UQ for its large science research community and the
positive and progressive environment she discovered on visiting for an interview.
“It was important for me to choose to do my PhD study in a lab that was supportive and friendly because science research is not a one-person job; it's all about collaboration and team work,” she said.
Significant growth in the popularity of the Three Minute Thesis event has led UQ to host the inaugural Australia & New Zealand 3MT Competition in 2010 as part of its Centenary celebrations.
Ms Wu will competed with seven other UQ students in the UQ finals on September 20, where she won both the overall event and the People's Choice Award.
Prizes at both events included a $5,000 travel grant for the winner, $2,000 travel grant for the runner
nner-up and $1,000 travel grant for the people's choice award.
Master of Ceremonies for the event was award-winning science writer, broadcaster and regular judge on ABC TV's The New Inventors, Ms Bernie Hobbs.
Pictured: Ms Tina Wu (Courtesy of UQ Office of Marketing & Communications)
Watch Tina's Winning Presentation
Pharmacy Guild Offers Rural Scholarships
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia is inviting applications for the 2011 round of Rural and Remote Pharmacy scholarships.
Application is open to rural and remote students in any year of their undergraduate or postgraduate studies.
30 full time scholarships are available, with recipients being eligible for $10,000 per year for up to 4 years, to help cover the costs associated with studying away from home. They also participate in a mentor program aimed at reinforcing the students’ ties to rural and regional Australia.
“The Rural Pharmacy Scholarships provide financial support to students from rural and remote communities, to encourage and enable them to undertake undergraduate or graduate studies in pharmacy at university,” Kos Sclavos, National President of the Pharmacy Guild said.
“Scholarship holders receive financial and mentoring support to ensure they get the most out of their university studies,” Mr Sclavos said.
“The mentoring program not only helps the students develop a learning plan, but it provides support to students outside of the university environment. It’s an important tool for supporting students who have come from rural and remote areas and are studying away from their family support base.”
Scholarship holders are encouraged to pursue a career in pharmacy in rural or remote Australia after graduation. During their studies they have a responsibility to promote rural pharmacy as a career choice to rural secondary school students and to actively participate in rural health club activities.
The Rural and Remote Pharmacy Scholarship Scheme is an initiative of the Rural Pharmacy Workforce Program, established in recognition of the key role pharmacists play in maintaining the health of all Australians. The Program is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, and managed by the Pharmacy Guild of Australia.
A new UQ Centre opened in 2010 will tackle the lack of an agreed set of compliances for all health practitioners with prescribing authority.
The Centre for Safe and Effective Prescribing (CSEP), based at PACE, is headed up by Director Dr Charles Mitchell, and Deputy Director, Associate Professor Lisa Nissen.
CSEP's mission is to foster, develop and implement best practice in safe and effective prescribing for all health practitioners with prescribing authority.
This will include medical and non-medical prescribers currently practising and those who will in the future. The Centre acts in an advocacy and consulting role for the formulation of policy, at all levels of government, surrounding the safe and effective prescribing of medicines.
“Both medical and non-medical practitioners currently write prescriptions for patients and there may be more prescribing professions in future,” according to Associate Professor Charles Mitchell.
He said currently, there was no agreed set of compliances, which needed to be developed and endorsed by an appropriate Australian authority.
Current prescribers include doctors, nurse practitioners, optometrists, dentists, physician assistants and other allied health professionals. More than 250 million prescriptions a year are filled in Australia.
“Prescribing as a skill is not given the due attention it would be say, compared to medical procedures,” Dr Mitchell said.
“If a surgeon takes out an appendix, he or she needs to operate with a high level of skills and to an agreed set of competencies.
"The same high standards should apply to prescribing, and the discrepancy between prescribing and procedural differences needs to be addressed.”
Dr Mitchell said CSEP aimed to improve medication safety through education and training programs, informed by translational research, to prescribers and consumers.
The Centre has a research role in quality use of medicines, safe and effective prescribing and patient medication and experience, and an education role involving undergraduates, postgraduates and postgraduate vocational programs.
“We're looking to partner with a range of State and national groups who by themselves may not have sufficient resources to develop necessary materials, but as a collective we can effect efficiencies in development time and costs.”
Head of the UQ School of Pharmacy Professor Nick Shaw said he was delighted at the formation of the Centre, which recognised the important roles of pharmacists in the prescribing process and the quality use of medicines.
UQ Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Max Lu welcomed the Centre as an important initiative which would lead to better outcomes for patients and clinicians.
Honours Student Nominated for Pride of Australia Medal
4th Year School of Pharmacy Honours student Joe Monteith was nominated for a 2010 Pride of Australia Medal, in the Young Leader category.
The Pride of Australia Medal honours ordinary Australians who do extraordinary things throughout our communities. They are our nation’s unsung heroes. Their contribution is not widely known or recognised by the general public but through their achievements these remarkable Australians inspire all of us, as individuals and collectively, to help make our nation a better place to live.
Now in its sixth year, the Pride of Australia medal is made up of eleven categories - Outstanding Bravery, Courage, Heroism, Community Spirit, Child of Courage, Young Leader, Care and Compassion, Inspiration, Environment, Fair Go and the Serving Australia.
Joe graduated high school with one of the highest tertiary entry ranks in Australia and upon moving down to the Sunshine Coast to study the Bachelor of Pharmacy at UQ, his skills flourished.
In 2007, Joe was elected Student Ambassador of UQ – a prestigious position where he continually travels to many high schools throughout Queensland and interstate to talk to high school students and parents about pathways after school, options for university, pathways into UQ and also encourage a balanced, academic life.
He is one of the longest serving Student Ambassadors and currently continues regular high school visits and tertiary study exhibitions, enhancing the learning experience of thousands of high school students.
Within the Pharmacy profession, Joe has been extremely active and these are the resultant professional appointments:
Second Year Queensland Pharmacy Students’ Association Representative (2008)
Vice-President of the Queensland Pharmacy Students’ Association (2008/2009)
National Australian Pharmacy Students’ Association Representative of the Queensland Pharmacy Students’ Association (2009-current)
National Councillor to the National Australian Pharmacy Students’ Association (2009-current)
UQ Representative – Pharmaceutical Society of Australia’s Early Career Pharmacist Working Group (2009-current)
Student and NAPSA representative on the Pharmacists’ Coalition for Health Reform (2010-current)
Joe advocates and represents over 6000 students through these committees and organisations on a wide range of professional related topics and concerns. By doing this, he has helped develop many educational seminars, social events, altered university curriculum and policy changes.
He has previously organized weekly charity fund-raising barbeques and charity cup events. Over the past three years, he has been active in organizing fund raising for the Fred Hollow’s ‘Closing the Gap’ Indigenous Fund. This fund raising drive has raised over $10000 for the Fred Hollow’s Foundation.
Joe also currently organizes the annual ‘Vampire Charity Cup’ at UQ, a charity event to encourage the donation of blood and plasma to the Red Cross. He has recently gained the support from the National Australian Pharmacy Students’ Association for a new humanitarian venture, involving charity fund raising for the Sunanda Gandhi Memorial School in rural India. This school was opened to support and educate Indian children who had previously been sold to child slavery.
"The nomination itself is such a great honour, let alone being a finalist. I help out where ever I can and I love what I do." Joe said.
He went on to say "I am extremely passionate about advocating for our profession, health politics and improving patients’ lives, so hopefully in the near future I’ll find myself in a workplace which involves all of those."
Pictured: Mr Joe Monteith (Courtesy of Joe Monteith)
Students Give Back to Top Staff
The Queensland Pharmacy Students Association (QPSA) has announced the winners of the inaugural UQ Staff Excellence Awards, at the QPSA Golden Ball held on September 18.
The awards aim to acknowledge the staff’s hard work and dedication to students. Students from every year level voted in the awards and then the votes were independently tallied using a point system.
Claire Grant (QPSA President) announced the winners at the annual Ball.
“I am proud to be announcing the wonderful work of our staff and I hope they accept these as a small token of our appreciation.”
The following professional and academic staff received the highest number of votes.
First Year:
First Year Lecturer of the Year:
Dr Lynne Emmerton
Excellence Award for Teaching and Learning:
Dr Lynne Emmerton, Dr Harendra Parekh, Prof. Nick Shaw, Mrs. Judith Singleton, Dr Kathryn Steadman
Second Year:
Second Year Lecturer of the Year:
Dr Kathryn Steadman
Excellence Award for Teaching and Learning:
Dr Kathryn Steadman, Ms. Jacqueline Bond, A/Prof. Lisa Nissen, Dr Benjamin Ross, Dr Adam La Caze
Third Year:
Third Year Lecturer of the Year:
Ms. Jacqueline Bond
Excellence Award for Teaching and Learning:
Ms. Jacqueline Bond, A/Prof. Neil Cottrell, Dr Benjamin Ross, A/Prof. Bruce Charles, A/Prof. Carl Kirkpatrick
Fourth Year:
Fourth Year Lecturer of the Year:
A/Prof. Lisa Nissen
Excellence Award for Teaching and Learning:
A/Prof. Neil Cottrell, A/Prof. Lisa Nissen, Dr Benjamin Ross, Dr Adam La Caze, A/Prof. Carl Kirkpatrick.
Miscellaneous
Bachelor of Pharmacy Lecturer of the Year: A/Prof. Neil Cottrell
Clinical Tutor of the Year: Mr. Karl Winckel
Practical Tutor of the Year: Mr. Ron West
Student Administration Excellence Award: Mrs. Nadine Savage
Behind-The-Scenes Miracle Worker: Ms. Stephanie Dunn
Pictured:: Ms Claire Grant (QPSA President) and Mr Joe Monteith (NAPSA Representative) announce the awards at the 2010 QPSA Golden Ball. (Courtesy of Nam Huynh)
UQ Pharmacy Alumnus Receives Women in Technology Award
Queensland pharmacist and UQ Pharmacy alumnus, Dr Monique Beedles, is the winner of the Women in Technology Executive Award for 2010.
The award recognises success in a business or executive career and a demonstrated commitment to building a profile as a non-executive director.
Monique’s first board role was the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia Qld branch, where she was a Councillor from 1999 to 2005. Since that time Monique has consistently developed her portfolio to include Queensland’s Health Quality and Complaints Commission-Clinical Advisory Committee, two private companies, a university board and several not-for-profit organisations.
Monique was recently appointed as Vice Chair of St Peters Lutheran College, which is Queensland’s largest independent school. Having completed the Australian Institute of Company Directors Company Directors Diploma, Monique is now seeking to develop her skills in the role of Chair.
Monique has successfully run her consulting practice, Teak Yew, for the past seven years. With a focus on businesses strategy, Monique works with some of Australia’s leading organisations as they think ahead to the future.
Monique acknowledges the important role of the awards saying, "The WiT awards process has been a great opportunity for self reflection and professional development. WiT has also put me in touch with wonderful women who are willing to share their experience as role models and mentors"
Currently Monique is consulting to Australian College of Pharmacy on the Quality Improvement in Pharmacy Project.
Top priority was assigned to the implementation of Medication Therapy Management (MTM), Advanced Practice and Specialization in Pharmacy Practice.
The Academy was organised to fulfil the roles of an independent certification agency, provide professional training of pharmacy staff, and to furnish continuing professional education and development of Community Pharmacists in Hong Kong. The foremost concern of the Academy is to ensure that the public receives the highest level of pharmacy services in order to improve a patient's quality of life
The HKAPh trains, develops and regulates pharmacists in Hong Kong and currently has six collages, including the College of Pharmacovigilance and Drug Safety from which the fellowship was endorsed.
The Honorary Fellows were chosen as distinguished leaders in the area of pharmacy practice and drug safety.
Pictured: A/Prof. Lisa Nissen (front row, right) and other Honorary Fellows in Hong Kong
International Social Pharmacy Award for Dr Lynne Emmerton
Dr Lynne Emmerton, Senior Lecturer at the School of Pharmacy, was awarded Best Oral Presentation at the 16th annual International Social Pharmacy Workshop (ISPW) in Lisbon, Portugal, on 26 August.
The ISPW aims to bring together scholars from around the world that share a common passion of improving pharmacy practice and related health outcomes. This Workshop sets a special emphasis on the role of communication and information, as ubiquitous and directly engaged with health care practitioners and quality of health care.
Lynne's presentation was entitled “Can an Aged Care Pharmacist Improve Patient Care in a Department of Emergency Medicine?”, which Lynne co-authored with Cindy Mortimer and Elaine Lum.
The presentation was based on Cindy's Master of Clinical Pharmacy research, which was conducted at Bundaberg Hospital, Queensland, where she was employed in the novel role of an Aged Care Pharmacist, and demonstrated improvements in the quality of patient care.
The findings have been endorsed by a number of hospital authorities, with interest from interstate as well as Queensland, and have been published in the journal "Evaluation in Clinical Practice".
Felicity Davis, a PhD candidate in the Calcium signalling in Cancer Research Laboratory, attended the 11th Meeting of the European Calcium Society, held in Warsaw, Poland.
This was a specialised conference with 238 registered participants including experts in the field of calcium signalling from Europe, the USA and Australasia. Felicity reports:
“I am grateful for the opportunity to attend this conference during my PhD. This 4 day conference included 7 symposia and 2 poster sessions. One of the highlights was a session entitled calcium and diseases, which was particularly relevant to my PhD studies.”
“I was fortunate to be selected to present my work as a poster presentation. My poster attracted great interest from conference participants and enabled me to establish international research collaborations as well as providing constructive feedback that will assist with publication."
"It is particularly important to network with other scientists at this stage of your PhD and I strongly encourage RHD students to attend an international conference during the course of their studies."
"I am very thankful to the School of Pharmacy for financial support for this research travel and I would also like to thank my supervisors A/Prof. Sarah Roberts-Thomson, A/Prof. Greg Monteith, Dr Peter Cabot and Dr Marie-Odile Parat for their ongoing support and guidance.”
Felicity used this opportunity to explore Warsaw city and additionally travelled through Germany after the conference. The next meeting of the ECS will be held in France in 2012.
Pictured: Felicity Davis during her travels to Warsaw (Courtesy of Felicity Davis)
Pharmacy Researchers Identify New Target for Breast Cancer Treatment
School of Pharmacy researchers have identified a potential new target for breast cancer therapy.
Published on October 1, in the prestigious scientific journal Cell, are the results of research conducted by The School’s Associate Professor Greg Monteith and Associate Professor Sarah Roberts-Thomson, and their PhD students Helen Faddy and Desma Grice.
The team, which includes colleagues from Johns Hopkins University and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the USA, found that the presence of a protein that moves calcium into a specific area of the cell was higher in many breast cancers.
“When people hear about calcium, they think milk, teeth and bones, but calcium is also an important signal that is tightly controlled by specific transporters,” Associate Professor Monteith said.
“We now realise that these transporters can be altered in some cancer types.
“Hopefully these results and our current work will help us exploit these changes and target breast cancer more effectively.”
Characterising the new drug target was a six-year process involving collaboration with international researchers.
“We recognised very early on that this protein was a new kind of calcium transporter and it had particular significance in breast cancer, this was even before it was properly identified,” Associate Professor Roberts-Thomson said.
“We then began working with the Johns Hopkins team to define how it could contribute to cancer pathways.
“The pathway by which this calcium pump contributes to breast cancer is unique, complex and unexpected, and may shed light on other important processes in cells.”
The team has also identified other calcium transporters that may be important in breast cancer.
“We are focusing on those breast cancer types that have the poorest prognosis,” Associate Professor Monteith said.
“Patients with these cancers have the greatest need for new therapies.”
Associate Professor Roberts-Thomson said the research outcome would not have been possible without the assistance of their international partners and the work of PhD students Helen Faddy and Desma Grice.
“Progress in breast cancer research often requires an international effort, and this is one such example,” she said.
Pictured: Associate Professor Greg Monteith and Associate Professor Sarah Roberts-Thomson (Courtesy of UQ Office of Marketing & Communications)
Commencing RHD Candidates
Welcome to the following Research Higher Degree candidates who have commenced their PhD:
Ms Van Le Thu Hoang Advisors: A/Professor Greg Monteith, Professor Mike Gidley and A/Professor Ralf Dietzgens Project Title:Nutritional properties of mango fruits linking genomics to cellular bioactivities
Graduating PhD Candidates
Congratulations to the following PhD candidates who have completed their PhD:
Dr Neil Cottrell Date awarded: 04/12/2010 Project Title: The use of repertory grid technique in heart failure: A novel method to determine patients' understanding and beliefs of their medicines Advisors: Dr Charles Denaro & Dr Lynne Emmerton
The UQ Pharmacy Alumni Network was established in 2006, in order to re-connect with alumni and foster mutually beneficial links between graduates of the School, the University and the wider community.The network allows graduates to stay connected with the university and take an active role in the rich university life of UQ through social, educational and intellectual activities
Some of the benefits offered to UQ Alumni include:
Maintain valuable links with industry, allied health professionals, community organisations, fellow alumni and UQ
Networking with past students, staff and industry professionals through invitations to alumni functions, professional seminars and conferences
Opportunities for professional development through invitations to continuing education courses and lectures
Stay connected with your graduating class through reunions, social events, school newsletters and Graduate Contact magazine
Reduced rates for library access
Email for life
Continued access to UQ Employment Services
Reduced rates for internet access via UQ Connect
Reduced rates for membership of UQ Sport
Membership of the UQ Staff and Graduates Club
The Alumni network is open to all graduates of The University of Queensland's School of Pharmacy. Associate membership is now being offered to current students as well. Membership is free, and you can request to leave the network at any time. To register for membership, or to update your details, please click on the button to the right. Click to update your details
Alumni Network Enquiries:
Ms Stephanie Dunn
UQ Pharmacy Alumni Coordinator
Phone | 07 3346 1926
Email | s.dunn@uq.edu.au
Alumni Spotlight
With Dr Monique Beedles
Since completing my pharmacy studies at UQ, I have taken an interesting, and some would say non-traditional, career path.
From the beginning of my pharmacy degree I was interested in the large scale business of the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. Following my Bachelor of Pharmacy in 2004, I completed my pre-registration year at both the Wesley Pharmacy and at Alphapharm’s production facility in Brisbane.
I continued to work at the Wesley Pharmacy for six years while completing my postgraduate studies. This was a fantastic learning experience and Peter Brand taught me a lot about how a good organisation can be run.
My honours thesis also focused on the industrial side of pharmacy research and I went on to complete my PhD in Strategy in the School of Management at QUT. My Doctoral thesis explored the strategic impact of alliances between multi-national pharmaceutical companies and small biotechnology start-ups for new product development.
While still completing my PhD, I took on my first board role, as a Councillor of the Pharmaceutical Society, Queensland Branch, as it was at that time. Through this I had the opportunity to integrate theory and practice in Strategy from an early stage of my career and I now have more than 10 years of board experience to draw on.
Since graduating with my PhD in 2002, I’ve gradually built a portfolio career, which integrates a range of activities where I use my skills and experience to add value to organisations. As well as various roles in both hospital and community pharmacy, I have developed my broader business skills through work in industries outside pharmacy, including mining and education.
Through my consulting company, Teak Yew, I design businesses for the future and enable business decision makers to set their strategic direction and to align their strategy, structure, systems and processes to achieve their desired vision. I have now run this practice successfully for nearly seven years. .
My portfolio also includes a number of board roles, where my strategy skills are put to use in setting and monitoring the strategic direction for these organisations. I have completed the Company Directors Diploma of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and my boards and committees currently include: St Peters Lutheran College Council, where I am the Vice Chairman; the Health Quality and Complaints Commission-Clinical Advisory Committee; the QUT Creative Industries Faculty Academic Board; a private company in the facilities management industry; and several other committees.
In the community, I’m involved with the Girl Guides Queensland Women of Substance program, which runs mentoring events for high school girls. Each girl is matched with a successful woman in her area of career interest. It’s an opportunity for young women to be exposed to a range of career possibilities and also an opportunity for the mentors to share the benefits of their experience.
I regularly run workshops, speak at conferences and industry events, and write for various publications. Through my consulting, speaking and writing, I aim to make credible academic thinking accessible to a wider business audience. Earlier this year I was interviewed for an article in the Australian Financial Review, where I was able to discuss the practical applications of some of my research.
Also this year I’ve spoken on strategic leadership topics for Engineers Australia, the Franchise Council of Australia, Chartered Company Secretaries and Women on Boards, among others. Next year I’ll be a speaker at the Australian College of Pharmacy annual conference in Auckland. I have been made a Fellow of the ACP and currently assist in a consulting capacity on the Quality Improvement in Pharmacy project.
Last month I was honoured to win the Women in Technology Executive Award for 2010. The award acknowledges a successful business or executive career and a demonstrated commitment to developing a profile as a non-executive director.
My future aims are to continue to develop my consulting practice and to expand my board portfolio into larger private companies or Government bodies and beyond that, listed companies.
I still meet people who hear my history and ask ‘what has business got to do with pharmacy?’ I take the question to be rhetorical!
Are you an alumnus with an interesting story to tell? We'd love to put you in the spotlight! Contact news@pharmacy.uq.edu.au
2011 Class Reunions - Start Spreading the Word!
The School of Pharmacy Alumni Network will run another round of class reunions during 2011.
2011 Reunions will include:
40 Year Reunion | Class of 1971 | August 2011
30 Year Reunion | Class of 1981 | September 2011
20 Year Reunion | Class of 1991 | October 2011
10 Year Reunion | Class of 2001 | November 2011
Reunions will be held at the School of Pharmacy's new home, the Pharmacy Australia Centre of Excellence. As well as enjoying the party, guests will have the option of a guided tour of the facility.
Date claimer letters and emails will be mailed in February 2011, so update your details (please include an email address) to be sure you don't miss out!
Guild's Support Keeps Alumni in the Network
The School of Pharmacy would like to acknowledge the generous support of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia (QLD Branch), who have supported the initiation of the UQ Pharmacy Alumni Network since its inception in 2006.
Their support continues in 2010, making it possible for the School to continue regular contact with its graduates, update records, produce printed materials and banners to raise awareness of the network.
As the Pharmacy alumni network grows, the School places increased emphasis on contact with its alumni, and thanks the Pharmacy Guild of Australia for assisting with this.
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UQ's top interprofessional student team competed against the nation's best on September 17, at the Australian HealthFusion Team Challenge event, known as OzHFTC, held at PACE.
Finding a cure for cancer is a hot topic, and School of Pharmacy PhD candidate Tina Wu is looking in an unlikely place for answers. 
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia is inviting applications for the 2011 round of Rural and Remote Pharmacy scholarships.
A new UQ Centre opened in 2010 will tackle the lack of an agreed set of compliances for all health practitioners with prescribing authority. 
4th Year School of Pharmacy Honours student Joe Monteith was nominated for a 2010 Pride of Australia Medal, in the Young Leader category.
The Queensland Pharmacy Students Association (QPSA) has announced the winners of the inaugural UQ Staff Excellence Awards, at the QPSA Golden Ball held on September 18.
Queensland pharmacist and UQ Pharmacy alumnus, Dr Monique Beedles, is the winner of the Women in Technology Executive Award for 2010.
The School of Pharmacy's Associate Professor Lisa Nissen was last week inducted as an Honorary Fellow of the the 
Dr Lynne Emmerton, Senior Lecturer at the School of Pharmacy, was awarded Best Oral Presentation at the 16th annual 
Felicity Davis, a PhD candidate in the Calcium signalling in Cancer Research Laboratory, attended the 11th Meeting of the European Calcium Society, held in Warsaw, Poland. 
School of Pharmacy researchers have identified a potential new target for breast cancer therapy. 
Since completing my pharmacy studies at UQ, I have taken an interesting, and some would say non-traditional, career path. 
