SHPA 2010 award winners
November 15, 2010
THE Society of Hospital
Pharmacists has awarded the2010
Australian Clinical Pharmacy
Award to Garth Birdsey.
Garth is the Pharmacist Senior
Clinician (Cardiac Services) at
Barwon Health in Geelong, Victoria
and the award, announced at this
year’s Medicines Management
conference in Melbourne over the
weekend, recognises his leadership
role in the cardiology team at
Barwon Health.
“Garth’s clinical pharmacy
leadership in cardiology has raised
the profile and respect for the
capabilities of the hospital
pharmacist,” said Greg Weeks,
Director of Pharmacy, Barwon
Health.
“As a result, cardiologists have
been keen to support pharmacy
within the hospital in developing
advanced practice roles,” he added.
MEANWHILE Medicines
Management 2010 has also seen
Dr Ian Coombes awarded SHPA’s
GlaxoSmithKline Medal of Merit for
2010, in recognition of his
“commitment to safe medication
use and practical innovations that
make medication use safer at all
levels.”
Coombes’ extensive career in
hospital pharmacy in the UK, Sri
Lanka and Australia has included
keen involvement in the education
of undergraduate and postgraduate
pharmacy students.
During long service leave he
undertook voluntary teaching in Sri
Lanka where he designed and
delivered a fourth year clinical
pharmacy curriculum with a team
of volunteers.
His innovations include the
National Inpatient Medication
Chart which he championed
nationally and which “changed
hospital practice around the
country,” according to SHPA
president Neil Keen.
Coombes was also the driving
force behind the development of
competency assessment training
programs implemented in Qld and
which are part of the national
Clinical Competency Assessment
Tool (shpaclinCAT) project currently
underway at SHPA.
As well as the GSK medal,
Coombes will receive $10,000 and
the award oration will be published
in the upcoming issue of the
Journal of Pharmacy Practice and
Research.
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