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Honorary membership certificate presented to former FIP president

A certificate of honorary membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has been presented to Nils-Olof Strandqvist, a Swedish pharmacist and former president of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP).

The presentation was made by the Society’s President, Marshall Davies, on 3 September, during the FIP congress in Singapore.

“Nippe” Strandqvist graduated as a pharmacist in 1959 and after a range of appointments in pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry became pharmacy manager at the University Hospital in Uppsala in 1982. From 1987 to 1996 he was head of the department of quality in pharmacy service at Apoteksbolaget (the National Corporation of Swedish Pharmacists). He was vice-president of FIP from 1987 to 1990 and president of FIP from 1990 to 1994. As president, he pioneered the federation’s adoption of an international code of good pharmacy practice, which has since been adopted by the World Health Organization.

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