Pharmacy Daily | TWC leader honoured

TERRYWHITE Chemmart Kapunda Pharmacy Leader, Megan McWaters (pictured), has been presented with The Light Regional Council Australia Day Award for South Australian Citizen of the Year.

McWaters was honoured for her role as an ambassador for Ovarian Cancer Australia (OCA), a national not-for-profit organisation, which the TWC network has been supporting as a charity partner for more than 15 years.

McWaters who has a family history of the disease, and has been diagnosed as having the faulty BRAC1 gene, associated with ovarian cancer, has been a tireless advocate for OCA, leading a fundraising committee that hosted an event in 2017 that generated more than $50,000 for women living with ovarian cancer.

In 2019, McWaters was acknowledged by the TWC group with the TWC Retail Leadership Award for committment to raising awareness about ovarian cancer and for the leadership she displayed at TWC Kapunda.

TWC CEO, Duncan Philips, said he was thrilled that McWaters' efforts to support OCA had been recognised in the Australia Day Awards.

"There could not be a more worthy recipient than Megan," he said.

"Her willingness to share her story has given a voice to the many women and families impacted by ovarian cancer, and we thank her for everything she does to help raise awareness and funds for OCA."

TWC is set to continue its support of OCA with a fundraising and awareness campaign set to run across the network in Feb.

Over the last 15 years, TWC has raised more than $1.5 million for the charity.

Meanwhile, TWC pharmacy owner, Karen Brown, was named as Small Business Person of the Year at the Dickson Australia Day Awards.

In a post on LinkedIn, Brown described the awards as "an accolade that can only be achieved with the amazing work of my pharmacy teams, in a year that we stood tall and proud, and the incredible support of my family, business partners, friends and colleagues".