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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

‘This can be achieved through a coordinated national approach linking infrastructure and workforce planning, with sustained investment in recruitment, structured career pathways, advanced practice recognition, and targeted support for rural and remote services.’ 🟣 Read more: buff.ly/6zJtDK5

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'Inflection point’: Landmark hospital pharmacy workforce report reveals strategies to beat strain

The State of Pharmacy: Workforce Insights 2025 shows three-quarters of hospital and health service sites reduced pharmacy services in the previous 12 months due to workforce shortages.

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

Upon the report's release, on the eve of Medicines Management 2025 in Melbourne, AdPha President Assoc Prof Tom Simpson FANZCAP FAdPha reiterates AdPha's call for a National Pharmacy Workforce Plan to ensure a more sustainable hospital pharmacy workforce pipeline. 3/4

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

AdPha's 'The State of Pharmacy: Workforce Insights 2025' report reveals an innovative and diversifying profession constrained by resourcing pressures, which restricts equitable access to essential hospital care. 2/4

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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

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Fellowships, with 100 Australians recognised across a diverse range of fields. We’re proud to see Carla among this outstanding group and look forward to the impact her Fellowship will bring.

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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

We’re excited to see Louis bring this passion for sustainable pharmacy practice to Medicines Management 2025 in Melbourne, where innovation, leadership and forward-thinking ideas take centre stage!

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

Through leadership in frontline pharmacy practice, quality improvement and operational planning, Louis remains dedicated to fostering sustainable pharmacy practice that benefits patients, the healthcare system and the environment.

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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

Early Bird registration for MM2025 will close on Thursday 2 October 2025 at: 🕙 9.59pm AWST 🕦 11.29pm ACST 🕛 11.59pm AEST buff.ly/Jl7ctmf

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

With over 100 sessions, workshops and presentations, plus 280+ posters, it's set to be our most dynamic conference yet. Featuring keynote speakers Dr. Sandro Demaio, Joel Pearson and Jana Pittman.

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

With over 280 poster presentations and a dynamic program, MM2024 was a testament to the power of shared knowledge and community. Join us in Melbourne this November at @MCEC for Medicines Management 2025.

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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

A long-time member and former Chair of the Cardiology Leadership Committee, Adam shared heartfelt insights on innovation, mentorship, and resilience, paying tribute to the mentors, colleagues, and institutions that shaped his path. buff.ly/vmNZ4uu

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

At #MM2024 in Adelaide, AdPha Medal of Merit recipient Adam delivered an inspirational oration, reflecting on his journey from a third-year pharmacy student with a briefcase full of whiteboard markers to a nationally recognised leader in cardiology pharmacy.

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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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