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The Offshore Refresher Conference continues to be Australia’s most successful Pharmacist Education conference built on a reputation for always providing an exceptional educational experience of the highest quality in content, relevance
and presentation from our speakers over a wide variety of subjects.

CPD Credits
PSA are currently seeking accreditation for the conference activity.

A certificate of attendance for the PSA Offshore Refresher Conference will be sent to attendees post event.

Learning Objectives
Main conference

Recognise business management strategies and advancements in pharmacy practice
Describe how pharmacy practice is changing to meet community needs
Recognise how the immune system affects the action of certain medicines
Review medicine use in older people with a focus on psychotropic and analgesic medicines.
Recognise the latest developments in medicines
Discuss developments in the management of obesity, urinary incontinence in women, endometriosis and adenomyosis, benign prostatic hyperplasia and acne.

Preconference
Use clinical case histories to provide more targeted patient care.

Post-conference
Discuss the effect of patients' perspective, pharmacist prescribing, antimicrobial stewardship, and primary care burden has on pharmacy practice

Competency Standards: 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.5, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, and 3.5.

Main Conference Program Speakers

Bruce Annabel
FCA MPS (assoc.) FACP MAICD BA (acc.)

Bruce Annabel is an acknowledged authority on commercial, management and strategic planning issues surrounding the business of community pharmacy and experience with general retailers. He was the founding partner in 1988 of Pitcher Pharmacy Services, a division of Pitcher Partners Chartered Accountants Brisbane, now a consultant. The division includes four partners and 30 support staff, serving the interests of over 700 community pharmacies Australia wide.

Bruce’s depth and breadth of client and broad industry exposure also enables him to have an excellent overview of community pharmacy strategy, financial performance, key performance indicators, benchmarks and practice management. Bruce presents his strategic vision and service proposition concepts to facilitate and implement initiatives aimed at shaping pharmacy businesses to deliver sustainable growth, profitability and improving patient health solution service. He is an advisor to several pharmacy boards and member of industry committees. He writes a monthly column with his close colleague Mal Scrymgeour in the country’s premier pharmacy publication, the Australian Journal of Pharmacy. He was awarded the 2007 Pharmacy Industry Medal of Excellence.

Simon Bell
BPharm(Hons) PhD MPS

Professor Simon Bell is Director of Monash University’s Centre for Medicine Use and Safety in Melbourne, Australia. He is also Adjunct Professor of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Eastern Finland. Professor Bell has extensive experience conducting research on patterns and outcomes of medication use in older people. Professor Bell was an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Dementia Leadership Fellow 2017-2022. Professor Bell has a strong commitment to international pharmacy and has given presentations on pharmacy in more than 30 countries. He established the Optimising Geriatric Pharmacotherapy through Pharmaco-Epidemiology Network (OPPEN), bringing together 8 world leading research groups in geriatric pharmacotherapy.

He also co-founded the Neurological and Mental Health Global Epidemiology Network (NeuroGEN), a 10-country ‘big data’ collaboration providing access to medication data for 100 million people. He has authored more than 320 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and been an investigator on grants worth more than AUD $45 million. Professor Bell was a Chief Investigator of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Frailty and Healthy Ageing and NHMRC Cognitive Decline Partnership Centre. He is Clinical Chair of the Guideline Development Group for Australia’s new Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Appropriate Use of Psychotropic Medications in People Living with Dementia and in Residential Aged Care.

Charlie Benrimoj
B.Pharm (Hons), Ph.D. F.P.S., FRPSGB, FFIP

Professor Benrimoj was the Foundation Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Strategic Planning) at the University of Sydney. He is a visiting professor at the University of Granada and Emeritus Professor at the University of Sydney. He graduated with a Bachelor of Pharmacy (Hons) in 1976, followed by completion of a PhD in 1980 at the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom. In 2010 he came out of retirement to help establish the Graduate School of Health at UTS.

Colin Chapman
BPHARM, BVSC (Hons), PHD, FPS

Colin is practicing pharmacist and an Emeritus Professor at Monash University where he was head of the Department of Pharmaceutics for 3 years and then Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy for 16 years. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at James Cook University. Since retiring from Monash University, Colin works in community pharmacies in rural Victoria as a ‘permanent’ locum and conducts medication reviews with his wife, Margaret, an accredited consultant pharmacist. His field of expertise whilst at Monash University was immunology, which included both research into immunoassays for low molecular weight drugs and teaching in basic and applied immunology.

Anita Muñoz
MBBS (Hons), FRACGP, GradCertClinTeach, MPH, GAICD

Anita Muñoz is a GP in private practice in Melbourne's CBD and has a dedication to evidence-based medicine, lifelong learning, and promoting the role of general practice in the health of patients, communities and in public health more broadly. Anita worked as a Clinical Editor and Clinical Advisor for 6 years with North Western Melbourne PHN through which a passion for health system improvement, innovation, sustainability and equity emerged. She sees general practice as the key to a rational health system that produces better outcomes for patients and practitioners alike. Anita has held advisory positions with Better Care Victoria and Safer Care Victoria and has been a medical educator for over 10 years. She is particularly preoccupied with the wellbeing and experience of general practice registrars, and of securing a high-quality general practice workforce for the future. Anita is Chair of the Victoria Faculty of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and RACGP board member.

Sepehr Shakib
MBBS, FRACP, PhD

Sepehr Shakib is Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Adelaide. He is involved in teaching medical, dental, nursing and health science students in a variety of pharmacology topics. His main interest is in the management of complex patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy. He is also involved in early clinical trial research and has been involved in over 250 phase I clinical trials. He has an Instagram account for people to ask him questions, they can’t ask in person (@pharmatine_studies )

Post Conference Cruise Speakers

Claire Anderson
BPharm, PhD, FRPharmS, FFRPS, FFIP, FRSPH

Claire Anderson is Professor of Social Pharmacy in the Division of Pharmacy Practice and Policy, School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham. She is President of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. Her research has led and informed the development of pharmacy and pharmacy education in the UK and globally for example, in role in public health, influenza vaccination, prescribing and pharmacists in general practice. As an internationally renowned social pharmacy researcher she has shaped the future of global research in this area. She has also set the agenda in pharmacy education research and development through prestigious work with international Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) important examples of outcomes include UNITWIN network on pharmacy education development in Africa and recognition of pharmacy workforce issues by WHO. She is a trustee of the Commonwealth Pharmacists Association.

Marta Stybowski
BPharm, MBA Cert IV, TAE, MPS, AAICD

A registered pharmacist, Marta worked as a community pharmacist in various roles and settings across Tasmania, Victoria and Queensland before stepping into consulting, where she has spent the last 14 years working with pharmacies to redesign their workflows and create environments that support the professional practice of pharmacy, provide patients with the best experience and in turn improve business outcomes. With extensive experience in pharmacy workflow and layout design, pharmacy systems implementation and training, Marta has presented at a number of industry and stakeholder events, contributed to publications and was a casual sessional academic at Deakins health focused MBA in the technology and business process improvement unit for 2 years.

Tracey Thornley
PhD, MSc(EconHTA), PGDip(HlthEc), BScPharm(Hons), FRPharmS, FFRPS

Tracey is a qualified pharmacist and health economist; specialising in supporting outcomes evidence within community pharmacy. Her work has helped support thinking on the future direction of pharmacy contract frameworks within all UK markets, measuring health outcomes and evidencing the value community pharmacy delivers to the health and social care system. She served as an elected member of the English Pharmacy Board of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society from 2016 to 2022 where she championed antimicrobial stewardship and represented the profession on several expert AMR advisory groups. During 2020, she was elected as a member of the global Executive Committee for the Community Pharmacy section of the International Pharmaceutical federation (FIP).Tracey holds a Chair at University of Nottingham as Professor of Health Policy where she works in collaboration across disciplines on research projects that can have an impact on health policy and practice. She also works as Scientific Advisor for surveillance transformation and the national bio-surveillance network at UK Health Security Agency.

Main Conference Program Speakers

Post Conference Cruise Speakers

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