Pharmacy Daily | Pharmacists on Aus Day Honours list

FORMER Pharmacy Board of Australia Chairman, retired Colonel Bill Kelly, was one of five pharmacists recognised in the 2021 Australia Day Honours List.

Kelly was appointed as a Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia, "for significant service to pharmacy through a range of roles".

Kelly was awarded the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019, and was presented with the Geoffrey Harkness Medal 'for outstanding contribution to the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps in 1985.

PSA NSW Branch immediate past President and former University of Sydney Department of Life Sciences Head, Peter Carroll, was also made a Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia, "for significant service to pharmaceutical education and to community health".

Former Dean of Monash University's Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) Education Bureau Chair, Professor Bill Charman, was appointed as an Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia, "for distiguished service to tertiary education, particularly to the pharmaceutical sciences and to professional organisations".

PSA 2017 Victorian Pharmacist Medal winner, Rodney Whyte, and NSW pharmacist, Judith Ingham, were awarded the Medal (AOM) of the Order of Australia in the General Division, for their service to the community and the pharmacy profession.

PSA National President, Associate Professor Chris Freeman, congratulated the five pharmacists on their honours.

"It is fitting to see the work of these respected professionals recognised with their Australia Day honours -- a tribute to their ongoing work on their own behalf and those they work with and for," he said.

"They have earned their awards for many years of dedication and commitment to pharmacy and Australian society -- PSA congratulates them."