On behalf of the Pharmaceutical Society of Singapore’s Council and Secretariat, we would like to wish our members Selamat Hari Raya Haji, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2009.

The glistering island city of Singapore has finally played host to one of the largest pharmaceutical congresses in the world – the Federation of Asian Pharmaceutical Association Congress 2008 (FAPA2008).

This year, I had the honour of being nominated and awarded the prestigious Professor Lucy Wan Outstanding Pharmacist Award 2008.

If anyone would ask me what I have learnt in my hospital career, I would sum up the last couple of years in 4 significant lessons. I hope that in reading this, you too would form your own opinions and feed them back to me. Any thoughts or comments are appreciated. :)

I would like to thank PSS for presenting me this prestigious award. This would not be mine without my fellow colleagues in Guardian for supporting me in the community projects. I would also like to thank my Pharmacy Director, Mrs Choo Wai Lin and my Assistant Pharmacy Practice Manager, Mr Ivan Chew for their kind guidance and support.

I would like to thank Gail Chang for nominating me, thank PSS and ICM Pharma for sponsoring this award and Mr Koe Khoon Poh and Ms Lita Chew who interviewed and awarded me with this honor. I’m deeply humbled.  Next, I am grateful to the National University of Singapore, the ever loving mentoring by our lecturers, especially Prof. Lucy Wan who never failed to encourage me all these years, thank you Prof! and last but not least, all my teachers and principals of CHIJ and Catholic Junior College for imparting great values to nurture me to become who I am today.

PSS Past President  and President-elect of the Singapore Medical Alumni Association - Mr. Koe Khoon Poh has won  the Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

This year, PSS celebrated Pharmacy Week differently. We did not host a "big bang" event like we had in the past; instead, all pharmacists celebrated the week in their own setting while maintaining a common identity.

Avoiding drug interactions, tips to avoid problems. Some tips from US FDA. The full reference can be found here.

The following jobs/events are currently available. Kindly apply/register directly following the information provided. Best of luck!

As part of PSS efforts to provide members with the relevant professional development & upgrading programmes, we have been in contact with some potential overseas tertiary institutions to explore suitable post-basic advancement development programmes.