UNIVERSITY of Sydney School of Pharmacy Professor of Medicines Use Optimisation, Parisa Aslani (pictured), has been elected as one of three new Vice Presidents of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP).
Aslani's appointment followed the opening of FIP Virtual 2020 last night, which also saw Monash University's Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Dean, Professor Bill Charman, named as the winner of the Kamal K Midha Award for Execeptional Leadership.
Charman was also one of eight pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists to be made an FIP Fellow during the opening ceremony.
Responding to a Twitter post announcing her appointment as a FIP Vice President, alongside India's Manjiri Sandeep Gharat and Japan's Hiroshi Suzuki, Aslani said, "[I'm] looking forward to my new role and continued work with FIP and all Vice Presidents".
Meanwhile, FIP President, Dominique Jordan, called on pharmacy organisations around the world to continue to embrace the power of sharing and solidarity, and act as "one pharmacy" to ensure the profession emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic "bigger and better".
In his opening address Jordan said the profession needed to think ahead and use the positive recognition pharmacy has received for its efforts throughout the COVID crisis to engage with governments to enhance pharmacy practice.
He added issues around misinformation, medicines shortages and counterfeit drugs have been exacerbated during the pandemic, stressing pharmacists would need to protect the public from misuse of medicines.
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