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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

AdPha Connect is now live and getting started only takes five minutes. Built exclusively for AdPha members, AdPha Connect is a new networking and mentoring platform designed to help pharmacy professionals build meaningful one-to-one connections at every stage of their career. buff.ly/DDfHIys

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Half marathon (with zero training… yet). Chess player. Former child violinist and pianist. That’s Kingston - and also a pharmacist. Because we're more than just our jobs and one connection can make all the difference. Find your people: buff.ly/gBgL004

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Meet Kelly Beswick FANZCAP (Lead&Mgmt, RuralHlth) - into knitting, crochet, painting and photography. Not exactly what comes to mind when you think “pharmacist”… and that’s the point. Explore AdPha Connect: buff.ly/gBgL004

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Members are invited to review current Standards of Practice. Your feedback strengthens the profession — and can count as an Invited Contributor LX for ANZCAP revalidation. Get involved via the Standards and Guidelines page - buff.ly/eWlaGcp

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Save the date! In a milestone year, Medicines Management returns to Brisbane from 22 to 24 October 2026. For 50 years, this has been Australia’s leading scientific pharmacy conference, bringing together the people, research and ideas shaping the future of practice. More details coming soon.

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

New year. New opportunities. New recognition! ANZCAP helps pharmacists, pharmacy interns and pharmacy students across Australia and NZ gain recognition for their impact on practice and patient care, and we are looking forward to welcoming technicians soon. buff.ly/28exe2r

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Registration is now open for the FIP World Congress 2026 in Montreal, Canada. Join this global gathering of pharmacy leaders from 30 August to 2 September, exploring the theme 'One Health, One Pharmacy'. Learn more and register here: buff.ly/MOpkoHO

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

A beautiful moment as the baton is passed! Stephen Louey, incoming MM2026 Chair, announces Australia's largest scientific pharmacy conference is returning to Brisbane. 📅 Mark your calendars: the innovation and inspiration will ignite 24-26 Oct 2026. See you there! #MM2025AdPha

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

What might we unlock if we are able to understand, nurture and harness aspects of the human consciousness for broader benefit? An (almost literally) mind-blowing keynote unfolds from Prof Joel Pearson as #MM2025AdPha prepares to end on an inspirational high 🧠🤯

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Your Hospital Team Innovation of the Year is WA's Pharmacist-led Parenteral Nutrition Prescribing Clinic at Fiona Stanley Hospital! The team developed policies and training that sees pharmacist prescribers alongside dietitians managing complex nutritional therapies. #MM2025AdPha

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Your Technician of the Year is Karen Donn! Karen transformed the way WA's Statewide Obstetric Meds Info Service manages medication safety enquiries through statewide dashboards to track purchasing, compliance and inventory, improving both safety and efficiency. #MM2025AdPha

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

In our first award determined by member votes, your Early Career Pharmacist of the Year is Katelyn Jauregui @Sydney_Uni! Becoming a pharmacist in only 2023, Katelyn has combined frontline hospital practice with research, leadership, education + natl and intl roles. #MM2025AdPha

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

After a competitive final yesterday, Jesslyn Ha is 2025 AdPha Resident of the Year! Lead Analgesic Stewardship Pharmacist at @MonashHealth Jesslyn's winning presentation was titled: ‘Researching the researchers: perspectives on what makes a good research supervisor’. #MM2025AdPha

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Julian Tran is the recipient of the AdPha KC Leong Memorial Registrar of the Year Award for his leadership instigating change in culture and practice surrounding benzodiazepine prescribing and deprescribing, in the acute setting of Alfred Health's busy inpatient psychiatric unit.

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

A solemn moment at #MM2025AdPha and heartfelt welcome to the family of Kum Chuan Leong, in whose honour our Registrar of the Year Award has been renamed. KC embodied the spirit of the award, and we hope his legacy will continue to inspire advancing pharmacists for years to come.

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

@jonpenm.bsky.social thanks his mentors and acknowledges the opportunities that have enabled his remarkable career. ‘At the heart of it all I want to show how pharmacist make a difference, every single day.’

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Assoc Prof Jonathan Penm receives the 2025 AdPha Australian Clinical Pharmacy Award, recognising his instrumental role shaping the future of hospital pharmacy through extensive research, global leadership, and unwavering commitment to advancing clinical practice. #MM2025AdPha

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Let’s be honest, you’re not at #MM2025AdPha for the weather… but we’re excited for another exceptional day of innovation and inspiration down at MCEC!

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Global health leader Dr Sandro Demaio lays down the facts around ‘the single biggest health threat of this century’ and how the UN and WHO are putting health at the centre of the climate change agenda. #MM2025AdPha

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Congratulations to this year's AdPha Fellows: Yazmin Brown, Ronald Castelino, Romana Cecchele, Vinod Chellaram, Rachel Fyfe, Michelle Hansen, Helena Joseph-Hauser, Sharmila Khumra, Lisa Robertson, Arwa Sardaneh and Paul Toner. #MM2025AdPha

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Tara Clayton-Fisher tells a sweeping story of inspiration, perspiration and respect in an emotional #MM2025AdPha Medal of Merit oration: ‘Meaningful work often comes without fancy titles, but without roles like these, the world simply would not function.’

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Another milestone for 'technician trailblazer' Tara Clayson-Fisher, who has received the 2025 AdPha Medal of Merit for her exceptional contribution to the advancement of this critical workforce, and national leadership in redefining pharmacy practice. #MM2025AdPha

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Warm applause for the AdPha team in Plenary 2: 'Thank you all for a wonderful year, thank you for another exceptionally executed Medicines Management. There’s nothing quite like it, and we should all be very proud of that.' #MM2025AdPha

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

‘We are Advanced Pharmacy Australia, representing practice at the top of scope, care that is complex, delivered in teams and provided to patients who are most vulnerable, most at risk, or most unwell. This is our superpower.' AdPha Chief Exec Kristin Michaels on identity and purpose at #MM2025AdPha

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Congratulations to 2025 Fred J Boyd award winner Prof. Michael Barras recognised for his extraordinary leadership, research excellence and lasting contribution to hospital pharmacy practice in Australia.

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‘Inspiring national change’: Michael Barras wins Fred J Boyd award

A prolific researcher and national leader in medicines safety, Professor Michael Barras is awarded Advanced Pharmacy Australia’s highest honour.

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Brilliance, bobsledding and life’s bumblebees 🐝 A sparkling keynote from the iconic Jana Pittman deconstructs reality, humanity and the truth behind fear. #MM2025AdPha

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

A roar of approval for 2025 Fred J Boyd Award recipient Professor Michael Barras, who delivered an inspiring oration: ‘Progress comes from challenging assumptions and pushing boundaries. Research is a proven investment in the future.’ #MM2025AdPha

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

This morning Asst Minister Emma McBride commended AdPha’s Workforce Insights 2025 report, and advocacy toward a National Pharmacy Workforce Plan to strengthen the skills pipeline to our hospitals, improving care access and equity for all Australians: adpha.au/article/infl...

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Asst Minister Emma McBride enjoys a Melbourne ‘welcome home’ almost 10 years since her last Medicines Management conference before entering parliament, thanking AdPha for ‘instrumental’ advocacy driving forward collaborative initiatives that lift the quality of safe patient care. #MM2025AdPha

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Exemplifying collaboration, accountability, respect and integrity, Rosemary Burke is the eight recipient of AdPha Distinguished Fellowship. #MM2025AdPha

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Connection, collaboration and identity. @AdPhaPresident Tom Simpson outlines his vision for hospital pharmacy that continues to expand in scope and reach: ‘understanding today and anticipating tomorrow’. #MM2025AdPha

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Here we go! Our amazing #MM2025AdPha Chair Ella Raguz celebrates the ‘quiet and powerful force when we come together with purpose, that’s what Medicines Management is all about’.

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

A warm and moving Welcome from Elder Perrie Wandin from the last of Naarm’s six tribal Traditional Owners: ‘from the west to the east and north as far as you can see’. #MM2025AdPha

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

'Advanced pharmacy is at an inflection point in Australia, but there is a path through.' The first comprehensive examination of Australia's advanced pharmacy workforce shows three-quarters of hospitals reduced pharmacy services in the previous 12 months due to workforce shortages: buff.ly/oVYQ8hH

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Congratulatulations Carla Scuderi FANZCAP (Lead&Mgmt, Neph.), on being awarded a 2025 Churchill Fellowship. buff.ly/veyk6xZ The Winston Churchill Trust supports Australians to travel overseas, explore innovative ideas and bring back knowledge to benefits our communities

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Congratulations Louis Nguyen FANZCAP (OncHaem, Paeds), recipient of the MM2025 Sustainability Scholarship! buff.ly/BpGmpmg 'I’m honoured to receive the MM2025 Sustainability Scholarship, especially as sustainability is such an important focus in pharmacy.'

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

#MM2025 Early Bird registration closes TODAY! buff.ly/Jl7ctmf ⏲️9.59pm AWST ⏲️11.29pm ACST ⏲️11.59pm AEST Receive the maximum $700 in savings (AdPha member discount + Early Bird saving). Secure your spot at Australia’s largest scientific pharmacy conference.

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

From the spark of innovation to the buzz of collaboration, last year's conference was a whirlwind of inspiration and connection. We witnessed the brilliance of keynote speakers including Stan Grant, Simon Banks and Yemi Penn, who challenged our thinking and ignited our passion.

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Adam Livori’s FANZCAP (Cardiol.,Research) work improving outcomes for patients after a heart attack is nothing short of prolific, and his inspiring MM2024 oration has been published in Pharmacy GRIT. buff.ly/kA75iEG

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

'I'm a cracker – very dry.' Meet Sharon Ho FANZCAP (Neph., Transplant), #MM2025AdPha invited speaker, who describes herself as a biscuit with bite. It's all part of the fun of our 'A Minute With series... 'buff.ly/y3NaCGg

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Our 'A Minute With… series spotlights the personalities behind #MM2025. buff.ly/UFI7DKN Anita Shutt FANZCAP (Lead & Mgmt, MedsMgmt) likens hers to a Kingston biscuit: a classic that always delivers, balances crunch with cream and gets along with everyone at the table.

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

'Homemade chocolate chip with extra nuts.' Dr Marianne Jauncey, Medical Director of the Uniting Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC), describes herself: fun, unpretentious and with a dash of quirkiness as part of our 'A Minute With series...' buff.ly/IHHOmxR

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

What biscuit best describes the personality of #MM2025AdPha invited speaker, Casey Hale? As part of our 'A Minute With series...' Casey says he's more of a savoury guy, so Jatz, as they are versatile, adaptable and work well with just about anything! buff.ly/0Mer5i3

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Breaking barriers in care delivery; meet Bianca Jones FANZCAP (Lead&Mgmt, ToC) as part of our 'A Minute With series...' for #MM2025AdPha. buff.ly/wwBreY3 Bianca is passionate about making healthcare inclusive and accessible, wherever patients are.

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

#MM2025AdPha, speaker Angie Bone loves working at the intersections between disciplines, thrives on collaboration and admits that if she were a biscuit, she’d be a Dark Chocolate Digestive: understated power, practical, efficient with just a touch of mystery.

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

#MM2025AdPha invited speaker Jen Collins, FANZCAP (Generalist) describes herself as a Scotch Finger biscuit; classic, dependable, a solid foundation. Jen says pharmacy is never the same day twice and her podcast obsession: UnFck Your Brain*, is a go-to for tackling self-doubt.

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Kate Tognarini brings passion, humour and heart to everything she does, whether it’s embracing her love of stickers, describing herself as a 'Jaffa Cake' (not quite a biscuit, not quite a cake), or championing better support for people living with ADHD.

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Learn more about our #MM2025AdPha presenters via our latest 'A Minute with...' series: ➡️ Aaron Van Garderen FANZCAP (Informatics, MedSafety), a self-confessed tinkerer, loves pulling tech apart to make it work better for healthcare.https://buff.ly/umqoGzI

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Final week of Early Bird registration! Maximise your savings and prepare for a packed MM2025 program, with over 100 sessions, workshops and presentations, plus 340+ posters, this is Australia’s largest scientific pharmacy conference!

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Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) @adphaau.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Happy World Pharmacists Day! We celebrate the vital role of pharmacists in delivering safe, cost-effective and accessible care to every Australian. From managing complex therapies to ensuring safe medicine use, pharmacists are central to patient health. buff.ly/BssRocf

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