PROFESSOR Michael Dooley has been re-elected as president of the Society Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA).
Dooley, who is also Professor of Clinical Pharmacy at Monash University as well as being director of pharmacy at the Alfred Hospital, will be supported by Trudy Teasdale, assistant director of Pharmacy at Gold Coast Hospital, as well as SHPA vice president.
Dooley said he was excited about the many initiatives SHPA has underway into 2018, including Specialty Practice, Residency & Mentoring programs, Technician Role Redesign and the National Translational Research Collaborative.
He said strengthening SHPA's alliances would be an ongoing priority into 2018.
"While we have built a strong foundation on which to drive the ongoing expansion and emergence of new roles for hospital pharmacists, we look forward to fostering more partnerships within healthcare to ensure improvements in the safety and quality of medicines use leads to better patient care across all healthcare settings," Dooley said.
In particular SHPA is "excited about leading advancing practice and supporting the many pharmacists that have a major impact on patient outcomes through recognition of their practice with the new Advancing Practice program," he added.
Dooley said the new year would see SHPA continue to progress its vision for the future of pharmacy practitioner development.
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