Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha)

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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.

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

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

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

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 🧠🤯

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

@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.’

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

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!

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

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

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.’

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

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

‘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

‘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.

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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’.

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