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FIP has adopted as one of its three main Strategic Objectives
to advance the pharmaceutical sciences. This ambitious goal is
done through the work of the ten Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
led by the Board of Pharmaceutical Sciences which develop
projects and initiatives to aid FIP and its Member Organisations
truly advance the pharmaceutical sciences on a global level.
Over the course of 20112012, the key accomplishment of the
BPS was the adoption of the new BPS Strategic Plan. In addition,
another primary area of focus was going into stronger collabo
ration with the Board of Pharmacy Practice (BPP), an endeavour
already put into action with the combined sciencepractice FIP
Programme Committee preparing the programme for the 2012
Centennial. The BPS has also released an article entitled Impact
of the Pharmaceutical Sciences on Health Care: A reflection over
the past 50 Years that has been made available on the
FIP website.
Leadership also changed hands this year, with Dr Henk de
Jong (the netherlands) elected and confirmed as FIP Scientific
Secretary at the FIP 2011 Congress in Hyderabad, India, following
in the footsteps of previous Secretary Dr Vinod Shah (USA).
At the BPS meeting held in February 2012 Prof. Geoff Tucker
(UK) was unanimously elected as the new Chairman of the BPS.
At this same meeting the BPS unanimously elected Prof. Ross
McKinnon (Australia) as new vicepresident through the BPS.
The outcome will be forwarded to the FIP Executive Committee
and Bureau for information and to the Council for ratification
during the FIP Centennial Congress in Amsterdam, October 2012.
These mandates will be held from 2012 until 2016. Prof. Mitsuru
Hashida (Japan) will be the immediate pastchair of BPS for the
same period.
The BPS is pleased to congratulate Dr Malcolm Rowland (UK),
who received the prestigious HøstMadsen Medal at the
Hyderabad Congress. The HøstMadsen Medal is the highest
Pharmaceutical Science award of FIP and will be awarded every
two years, (in the odd years), at an annual FIP Congress.
Following a request from the FIP President and FIP CEO, the
Scientific Secretary (along with support from FIP staff and a
special programme committee), is in charge of organising a
special programme on World Pharmacopoeias in collaboration
with the World Health Organization (WHO), which will be part of
the Centennial Congress in Amsterdam.
FIP s strategic Pharmacy Educational initiative, FIPEd is in the
starting blocks, with Academia, Practice and Science needing to
work together to achieve holistic visions and goals for pharmacy
education spanning both science and practice. A combined
steering committee is currently operational.