BPC to have a practice chairman from 2006
The British Pharmaceutical Conference is in future to have a practice
chairman as well as a science chairman. The role will be filled by the
chairman of the Society’s adjudicating panel for pharmacy
practice research. The chairman will help shape the practice programme
and work with the science chairman to develop the joint science and
practice sessions.
Karen Hassell: “practice more than deserves its place at the
conference” |
The current chairman of the adjudicating panel, Karen
Hassell, will be practice chairman for the 2006 BPC. A sociologist,
Dr Hassell is senior research fellow at
the University of Manchester centre for
pharmacy workforce studies.
The BPC role of practice chairman was announced during the December
Council meeting by Colin Ranshaw, chairman of
the Council’s Conference Committee. Mr Ranshaw said: “The
BPC is a flagship event for the Society and is internationally recognised
for its high quality scientific and practice programme. The conference
has developed over many years to include a core element of joint ‘science
into practice’ sessions. Although the BPC has had a Conference
science
chairman for many years there has always been an imbalance on the practice
side and I am therefore delighted that Dr Karen Hassell is the first
Conference practice chair.”
Dr Hassell, said: “It is a great honour to be the first Conference
practice chair and I look forward very much to addressing the BPC in
2006. Pharmacy practice research is still a relatively new discipline,
but in recent years the number and standard of contributions to BPC has
grown and the impact that much of the research is having on practice
and policy is now well recognised. Practice more than deserves its place
at the national conference alongside science, and this move is one
of several over the years that helps bring
the practice and science of pharmacy together. This outcome also recognises
the work conducted behind the scenes by the adjudicating panel and others
who have striven to raise the profile of practice research.”
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The
Pharmaceutical Journal