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30 May 2022
Pharmacy scholarship and a higher purpose
Erana Ikimau (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Hine, Te Orewai) is the recipient of one of two scholarships for second year Māori pharmacy...
11 May 2022
Scholarship just the beginning
Anika Moana Kite Perenara is the recipient of a scholarship for Māori students in their second year of the Bachelor of P...
19 May 2021
Cuddles, bubbles and excellent health care
Organised by Otago Medical School students, the Teddy Bear Hospital involved dentistry, pharmacy, physiotherapy, and nur...
22 Mar 2019
22 March 2019, New pharmacy clinic aims to optimise pharmacotherapy and improve patients’ health
New pharmacy clinic aims to optimise pharmacotherapy and improve patients’ health
27 Jan 2021
Ones to Watch: Rebekah Amitrano
“I’ve known for a long time that I want to do something that helps people and I decided law was a way of helping many pe...
09 Mar 2017
Major support for Otago health research provided through latest lottery grants
University of Otago researchers have gained more than $2.6m in funding from the Lottery Grants Board to support studies...
22 Nov 2021
Otago announces Professorial promotions for 2022
Twenty-eight University of Otago academics are being promoted to the position of professor this year.
20 Dec 2012
20 December 2012 Media Release
The University of Otago has appointed an internationally leading expert on vaccine formulation and delivery to its Chair...
25 Mar 2020
25 March 2020, Lecturer and students volunteer time to make sanitiser
All the hand sanitiser needed by the University of Otago’s Dunedin campus over the coming weeks has been produced in-hou...
09 Apr 2018
Green Cross Health Pharmacy Awards celebrating excellence
The University of Otago Green Cross Health Awards were held in March, providing an opportunity for the School of Pharmac...
02 Mar 2018
Aspiring pharmacists inducted into professional programme
Over 130 aspiring pharmacists were officially welcomed into their first professional year of Otago’s Pharmacy programme...
13 Oct 2016
Student leadership recognised with awards
Early last week, eleven highly motivated and inspirational student leaders were recognised with Student Leadership Award...
03 Aug 2018
Otago International students equipped to effect change
Practitioners, service users, students, academics, managers, policy makers and researchers from across the globe will co...
01 Aug 2018
1 August 2018, Otago researcher secures funding for therapy to help prevent disorders in preterm babies
Otago researcher secures funding for therapy to help prevent disorders in preterm babies
23 Apr 2018
23 April ;2018, Patients are not always receiving information about medicines, Otago research reveals
23 April l2018, Media Release, Patients are not always receiving information about medicines, Otago research reveals
08 Feb 2019
Otago research links deprivation, inequality to poorer blood thinner outcomes
New University of Otago research is warning doctors to be wary of potential health risks for Māori and Pacific patients...
07 Dec 2015
7 December 2015, Missing out on prescription medicines harms health
Two new studies conducted by researchers at the University of Otago show that not being able to afford prescription medi...
11 May 2016
Otago studies supported by Health Research Council
Health Research Council ‘Emerging Researcher First Grants’ have been won by two up-and-coming University of Otago, Chris...
05 Dec 2018
5 December 2018, Māori health professional graduand numbers soar to new heights
Māori health professional graduand numbers soar to new heights
28 Jul 2011
28 July 2011 Media Release
12 Jul 2019
12 July 2019, New virtual lab ‘game-changer’ for Otago’s School of Pharmacy
New virtual lab ‘game-changer’ for Otago’s School of Pharmacy
25 Sep 2018
New Zealand children’s medicine prescriptions examined for first time
New Zealand children’s medicine prescriptions examined for first time
04 Aug 2017
2016 Rural Pharmacist of the Year, Graham Provis
2016 Rural Preceptor of the Year, Graham Provis says \
10 Apr 2017
10 April 2017, Study to develop faster way of detecting antibiotic resistance
New Zealand researchers are about to develop a radical new way of helping doctors detect antibiotic resistance faster th...
04 Aug 2017
2016 Community Preceptor of the Year
Karen Crisp is awarded 2016 Community Preceptor of the Year at the School of Pharmacy's Green Cross Health Pharmacy Awar...
13 Nov 2012
13 November 2012 Media Release
Many New Zealanders are not getting free prescriptions when they should and these people are likely to include our most...
10 Jun 2020
Otago scientist joins international call for care in scramble to develop COVID-19 treatments
As scientists worldwide scramble to quickly develop a drug to prevent COVID-19, a University of Otago scientist has help...
02 Nov 2021
2 November 2021, Otago launches Pharmaceutical Science degree, the only one of its kind in New Zealand
The University of Otago will be offering a Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Science degree from 2022. This is the only degree...
01 May 2017
New curriculum aims to produce work-savvy pharmacists
A new Bachelor of Pharmacy (BPharm) degree curriculum is set to be rolled out at the Otago School of Pharmacy with a foc...
03 Jul 2017
Researchers propose turning philosophy of pharmacy on its head
School of Pharmacy researchers propose a philosophical framework for the profession in a paper recently published in the...
04 Aug 2017
Inaugural Green Cross Health Pharmacy Awards Ceremony
The University of Otago, School of Pharmacy, is excited to announce the inaugural Green Cross Health Pharmacy Awards Cer...
26 Sep 2018
26 September 2018, Multi-ethnic approach to diabetes education needed – Otago academics
Multi-ethnic approach to diabetes education needed – Otago academics
26 May 2016
Patti Napier Initiates Change for Future New Zealand Technician’s roles.
Following the announcement of Hon Dr Jonathan Coleman, Ministry of Health, we ask Otago School of Pharmacy PhD student P...
04 Aug 2017
2016 Hospital Preceptor of the Year
Hannah Soper accepts 2016 Hospital Preceptor of the Year award at the School of Pharmacy Green Cross Health Award Ceremo...
17 Jul 2019
Educational tool developed at Otago makes international launch
Educational tool developed at Otago makes international launch
10 Nov 2017
Students and wider sector reap benefits of new fellow's mental health knowledge
New professional practice fellow Emma Smith is keen to spread her enthusiasm, passion and knowledge for pharmacy as wide...
25 Feb 2010
25 February 2010 Media Release
18 Jul 2012
18 July 2012 Media Release
Nation's top tertiary teaching award won by Otago Pharmacy academic
17 Apr 2019
17 April 2019, Little drops for little eyes
Little drops for little eyes
15 Jun 2010
15 June 2010 Media Release
06 Dec 2019
6 December 2019, Nineteen new Associate Professors for Health Sciences
Nineteen new Associate Professors for Health Sciences
07 Sep 2015
Students thrive in the culture of a revamped honours programme
Fourth-year students involved in the National School of Pharmcy's revamped Honours programme are thriving on the experie...
20 Dec 2019
Possible world-first collaboration for Pharmacy and Dentistry students
Possible world-first collaboration for Pharmacy and Dentistry students
09 Aug 2016
School of Pharmacy students play a major role in “Against the Current”
The Otago Malaysian Students’ Association (OMSA) musical theatrical performance, titled Malam Malaysia 2016 - Against th...
15 May 2020
15 May 2020, Public welcomed back to face-to-face Otago University health clinics
New Zealand’s move to Alert Level 2 means many Otago University health clinics will now be open to the public.
28 Apr 2016
28 April 2016, University appoints next Dean of Pharmacy
A leading researcher from Canada has been appointed as the next Dean of the University of Otago’s School of Pharmacy.
04 Aug 2017
Curriculum update
Today, many of the services pharmacists provide require them to work at the top of their scope. These services move them...
08 Sep 2015
Medicinal chemistry expertise contributes to disease understanding
Ever since her high school days Dr Andrea Vernall has had a love of chemistry and biology, now her passion is helping co...
03 Aug 2018
Students consider future pharmacits
'New technology changing the way pharmacists work' is the essay focus of a School of Pharmacy student who has won the Fu...
27 Feb 2016
The genes have it, graduate destined to become a pharmacist.
Kelsi (21) graduated with a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree in December and is the great grand niece of emeritus professor F...
07 Aug 2017
Understanding the start of health careers
The influence of interprofessional education on career trajectories and attitudes to collaborative team work are being e...
25 May 2018
Pharmacists' role discussed at Symposium
Pharmacists' role in mental health and addictions care was a topic of discussion at the 2018 Forward Pharmacy Symposium...
01 Oct 2016
Exciting era of pharmacy beginning to ‘walk the talk’, as Canadian academic takes up Otago Dean’s role
Exciting era of pharmacy beginning to ‘walk the talk’, as Canadian academic takes up Otago Dean’s role
12 Oct 2017
Te Puna Kaitaka encourage te reo Māori
Te Puna Kaitaka (Māori Students Pharmacy Association) held a quiz night on Tuesday 12 September to create awareness for...
01 May 2017
Turning 'weapons of mass destruction' into 'precision-guided munitions', all in a day's work
Turning weapons of mass destruction into precision-guided munitions sounds like something out of a sci fi movie, but it’...
21 Oct 2016
School of Pharmacy Research Symposium
Undergraduate students at Otago School of Pharmacy recently took part in the Annual Research Symposium. The Symposium is...
12 Oct 2015
Excellence in research rewarded at symposium
The School's fourth year students had opportunity to present their year's research during a symposium held over one and...
09 Aug 2016
Speed-dating at the Hunter Centre
The Māori Heath Workforce and Development Unit Speed-dating evening was held at the Hunter Centre (20 July 2016) for Māo...
25 May 2018
P2 student makes sense of pharmacy
University of Otago, School of Pharmacy P2 student, Debora Maea
03 Jun 2016
Samoan student lives her dream as she strives to become third generation pharmacist
Student Leah Mualia is inspired to become a pharmacist by her grandfather, a Samoan pharmacist and Otago graduate.
08 Aug 2016
Dr Ruth Ferguson shares her recent experiences in the Cook Islands with PIHPSA.
Pacific Islands Health Professional Students\u2019 Association (PIHPSA) invited Dr Ruth Ferguson to their Friday lunch s...
05 Nov 2015
Award-winner looks at vitamin D absorption
Final-year honours student Fang Juinn Yu impressed the judges at a major conference in Queenstown
09 Mar 2016
Pharmacy 2nd and 3rd Year Prize Giving
New Zealand\u2019s National School of Pharmacy 2nd and 3rd year prize giving (Friday 26th February) at the Colquhoun Lec...
25 May 2018
Continuing education workshops strengthen the profession
The School of Pharmacy have been travelling New Zealand, sharing an overview of the school and delivering the workshops.
18 Aug 2017
Green Cross Health Pharmacy Awards Ceremony
Our inaugural Green Cross Health Pharmacy Awards ceremony was held at St David Lecture Theatre on Friday 11 August 2017....
01 Sep 2015
Review of degree curriculum with an Otago 'flavour' underway
An important piece of work is currently underway behind the scenes at the Otago School of Pharmacy with a review of the...
19 Oct 2016
Innovative project gains financial boost
Dr Greg Walker is part of an exciting project on Novel Peptide Vaccines for Broad Application which has been successful...
11 Nov 2017
Primary prevention strategies a focus for soon-to-be-intern pharmacist
Final-year pharmacy student Sonja Bimler is looking forward to putting her passion for primary prevention strategies to...
20 Dec 2017
Otago School of Pharmacy congratulates graduates of 2017
The School of Pharmacy celebrated graduating students at the annual pre-graduation function held in the Link of the Info...
28 May 2018
More than meets the eye in pharmacy
The School of Pharmacy's first Otago-Singapore Ambassador is an enthusiastic proponent of the concept that pharmacy is m...
01 May 2017
PhD student’s research backbone of the introduction of a new role in pharmacy
Community pharmacist-turned-PhD student Patti Napier’s research is behind one of the newest initiatives in pharmacy – ac...
19 Aug 2015
School of Pharmacy celebrates new PhD graduates
Three graduates received their PhDs in the afternoon ceremony on 15 August: Hesham Al-Sallami, Piyanan (Jill) Assawasuwa...
01 May 2018
Dr Nagham Ailabouni Q&A
Every day, older New Zealanders take piles upon piles of medicines; some of which may be causing more harm than good. De...
01 Dec 2016
Maori Students' Pharmacy Association, Te Puna Kaitaka, forms its roots at Otago
A group of enthusiastic Maori pharmacy students at Otago have established Te Puna Kaitaka, the Maori Students’ Pharmacy...
01 Mar 2017
Christina White prize caps off big year for pharmacy's top student
2016 was a big year for then final-year pharmacy student Abbey Evison who received the Christina White Prize
29 Feb 2016
School of Pharmacy Staff Receive Research Awards
Congratulations to the following staff on their School of Pharmacy Research Awards for 2015 received yesterday.
20 Dec 2017
“Prevention is better than cure” quotes Fiji’s newest Doctor, Dr Sujita Narayan.
One of four PhD students to graduate from the School of Pharmacy this December, Dr Sujita Narayan celebrates the success...
01 Feb 2017
Otago School of Pharmacy congratulates Graduates of 2016
New Zealand's National School of Pharmacy celebrate graduates of 2016 at pre-graduation ceremony (Hunter Centre, Dunedin...
23 Nov 2015
New Zealand attracts Japanese pharmacists
The School of Pharmacy hosted a cohort of pharmacists from different locations in Japan sponsored by Medical Incubation...
03 Nov 2016
Final Year Student Encourages Entrepreneurial Leadership
Final year student, Sophie Oliff, is leaving the School of Pharmacy with transferrable skills beyond her Pharmacy degree...
13 Oct 2015
Clinical group rub shoulders with royalty
A small clinical contingent from the University of Otago attended the European Society for Developmental Perinatal and P...
03 Aug 2016
Researchers secure HRC grant to investigate impact of prescription drugs
School of pharmacy staff have been successful in securing $150,000 from the Health Research Council of New Zealand to un...
01 Oct 2016
Pharmacist sheds reservations to return to the classroom as PhD student - and loving it
I had doubts as to whether I was able to do this level of study, but everyone has been really supportive which makes it...
12 Oct 2018
A future of better healthcare
Otago students are finishing the first year of the modernised bachelor of pharmacy degree that focuses on the vital role...
01 Dec 2016
Double celebrations as twins graduate
Madhuriksha and Muniksha Reddy have been on a journey together ever since they were born a few minutes apart 21 years ag...
04 Jul 2011
2nd International Symposium on Health Research and Development.
The National Institute of Health Research and Development (NIHRD) of the Ministry of Health, Republic of Indonesia hoste...
18 May 2016
Otago School of Pharmacy Graduate of 2014, Yasmin Abdul Aziz, Wins Award.
Yasmin Abdul Aziz was awarded best oral presentation for her current project \u201cInsulin Pump Commencement and Initial...
03 Jul 2017
Evidence plan gathers momentum to drive pharmacy forward
Work is continuing behind the scenes to develop an evidence plan resulting from this year’s Forward Pharmacy symposium t...
04 Aug 2017
Years of postgrad study culminates in Master's degree for specialist pharmacist
Paediatric pharmacist Rajeshni Naidu has always wanted to be a specialist pharmacist and with plenty of hard work, study...
10 Oct 2016
Collaborations lead to new cultural competency requirements
The Otago School of Pharmacy supports the Pharmacy Council's new recertification requirement for cultural competence CPD...
01 Mar 2017
Hands On Otago experience hooks students on pharmacy
After one week at Otago University’s Hands-On programme, Tauranga student Kimberly King is hooked on pharmacy.
16 May 2016
May graduation - three PhD successes
The School celebrated graduation for several PhD graduates on Saturday 14 May.
20 Sep 2017
Interprofessional education project positive for both pharmacy and physio
Two pharmacy students who participated in a pilot interprofessional learning project, together with student physiotherap...
02 Mar 2016
pharmacy students learn health literacy skills in free medicine clinics
The Health Quality & Safety Commission’s three-step model for better health literacy is being used to improve health lit...
17 Oct 2017
PHCY 470 Elective Study Research Symposium
Around 130 fourth year Pharmacy students gathered at the Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum on Friday 13th October 2017 to pre...
04 Feb 2016
NZ's National School of Pharmacy Encourages young potential Pharmacists.
New Zealand\u2019s National School of Pharmacy encourages young potential pharmacists of New Zealand to immerse themselv...
04 Feb 2016
White Coat Ceremony speaker Angela Harwood.
Each year NZ\u2019s National School of Pharmacy inducts new students with the White Coat Ceremony, providing a formal tr...
03 Aug 2018
Celebrating a heritage of heart and stone
School of Pharmacy alumni are being invited to Dunedin for a reunion which will form part of the University of Otago's 1...
29 Jul 2015
Stellar staff poised to become 'research leaders of tomorrow'
Lecturers Shyamal Das and Shakila Rizwan have been identified as 'research leaders of tomorrow', recently securing HRC f...