THE Australian pharmacy sector is this week mourning the death of Dr Geoffrey Vaughan AO, who was Dean of the Victorian College of Pharmacy from 1979 to 1986.
Vaughan died peacefully on 04 Jan at the age of 84, with his distinguished career also including a role as Director of the Chisholm Institute of Technology.
He led that institution through its merger with Monash University, then serving as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Monash until 1992.
He was then appointed as National Manager and ceo of the Therapeutic Goods Administration, where he initiated a strong focus on research into drug development and health advancement.
Bill Charman, Dean of the Monash Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, said "Geoff was a leader - he had great foresight and vision.
"He was generous to those he worked with, and always saw opportunities to make tomorrow better...the Faculty would not be what it is today without Geoff's contributions and leadership".
As well as his pharmacy career, Vaughan was a former rugby union prop who was selected for the 1957-58 Wallabies Tour of Britain, Ireland, France, the US & Canada.
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