108th Annual General Meeting

The 108th Annual General Meeting was successfully held on 22 March 2014 at The Academia. Ms Miko Thum was re-elected as the president for her second term.

The 107th Council thanks Ms Nelley Toh for her invaluable contributions as the Ex-officio of the Professional Education Committee and welcomes Mr Wong Chee Fah, Director, Sales, Operations and Pharmacy Practice at Guardian Health and Beauty into the 108th Council.

The annual and financial reports were passed at the meeting. The minutes of the 108th AGM has been circulated to all members. Please contact the PSS secretariat if you have not received it. PSS also welcomes all our new pharmacists into the PSS family! We hope you can grow with us as you progress through your careers! Pictures of the AGM can be viewed here.

Here are the Ex-officios for the various Chapters & Committees in 2014/2015

Find out more about what we do here!

We are looking for like-minded pharmacists to join us! If you would like to join in our cause, please email admin@pss.org.sg and indicate which chapter/committee you would like to be in. Our Ex-officios will be in touch with you shortly!

Getting to know our PSS Secretariat

Assistant Training Manager - Ms Janet Low

PSS would like to congratulate Ms Janet Low on her promotion to Assistant Training Manager with effect 1st April 2014. Janet joined us on 15-Feb-2012 as the Training Executive on full-time basis. Janet holds a B.Sc. (Hons) in Business Studies from Loughborough University, UK; and has accumulated many years of experience in running training organisation.Janet has similarly started a training organisation in her previous job albeit in a different industry, pioneering the establishment of the Singapore Taxi Academy in 2003. Since coming on board PSS, she has assumed the functions and responsibilities in running the entire PSS training operations. She has successfully coordinated the 22nd and 23rd CPTC and will be working with the CPTC trainers in enhancing the syllabus of the next few runs of CPTC. She has also ensured PSS maintained WDA compliances as an ATO. Her new portfolio will enable her to carry her activities to a higher level to ensure PSS stays ahead in the provision of professional education courses.

Administrative Executive - Ms Yeo Cheng Lian

You would have heard the chirpy voice of our administrative Ms Yeo Cheng Lian when you called PSS. Cheng Lian has been with us since November 2012 and assists the Council in all secretariat matters. Feel free to contact Cheng Lian if you have any queries on your membership or CPEs.

Adminstrative Assistant - Ms Soh Hui

Ms Soh Hui joined us last year and assists the Assistant Training Manager in all matters relating to training and the Administration Executive in secretariat matters. 

Volunteer pharmacists required for upcoming community outreach activity

New! Medication Clean Out Project at Chin Swee

This event is a collaboration between PSS and the City For All Ages, Aging Planning Office. The Kreta-Ayer Kim Seng Division has been running the Bed Bug Eradication Programme for several years and one of the common problems seen was large stashes of medicines (some of which have expired) in the home of the elderly. As such, PSS will embark on a programme to provide home medication review visits.This time round, we are aiming to cover 46 elderly and will need at least 15 pharmacists to ensure we will be able fulfill this activity. Each pharmacist will be partnered with a grassroot leader. You will cover about 3 homes if we achieve the targeted number of volunteer pharmacists. 

• Venue: 2 blocks of rented flats at Chin Swee
• Date: 17 May 2014 (Saturday)
• Time: 10am to 12noon 
• What will be done: Medication Clean Out, sorting and medication review
• Target no. of beneficiaries: 46

If you are interested to join us, please email admin@pss.org.sg with the email header "Volunteer for Medication Clean Out Project at Chin Swee". We will contact you shortly with more details.

SADeaf Medication Review 

(Thank you all who have signed up! We have reached the number of targeted volunteer pharmacists for this event)

This event is organised by NUSPS Essential Medicines (the voluntary wing of NUSPS) in collaboration with the Pharmaceutical Society of Singapore and Singapore Association for the Deaf (SADeaf). During this event, there will be basic health screening, which includes BMI, blood pressure and blood glucose measurement, followed by medication review. The target number of participants is 40 deaf elderly.

The event details are as follows:

• Venue: Singapore Association for the Deaf, 227 Mountbatten Road S(397998)
• Date: 18 May 2014 (Sunday)
• Time: 9.30am to 2pm
• What will be done: Basic health screening and medication review for the deaf community
• Target no. of beneficiaries: 40
• Additional information:
  • There would be sign language interpreters around to help out in the translation.
  • It is not necessary for pharmacists and student volunteers to have knowledge of sign language, but having so would be a bonus.

Congratulations to Asst Prof Lita Chew on winning the best poster award at ISOPP XIV

PSS would like to congratulate Asst Prof Lita Chew who won the best poster award at the recent ISOPP XIV conference held in Montreal fro 2 to 5 April. The title of the poster was "Evaluating factors associated with life expectancy less than 3 months among elderly patients receiving palliative chemotherapy".

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Updates from the 24th Singapore Pharmacy Congress Organizing Committee

 

Early bird registration for 24th Singapore Pharmacy Congress starts now till 30 June 2014! Enjoy substantial savings by registering early! A wonderful programme awaits you! 

Please click on the link below for more information:

Register Online

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