Pharmacy Council membership
The Pharmacy Council has eight members appointed by the Minister of Health and is funded by the registration and annual practising fees paid by pharmacists. The members are:
| | Dr Andrew Bary PhD, BPharm (Hons), FNZCP, MPS, RegPharmNZ (Chair) is a pharmacist based in Queenstown. Andrew has experience in community pharmacy, as a pharmacy proprietor and in pharmacy research and education. |
| | Mark Bedford DipPharm, RegPharmNZ, AFNZIM (Deputy Chair) community pharmacist Mt Maunganui, is co-owner of a busy |
Leanne Te Karu DipPharm (Distinction), PG Cert Pharm, PG Dip Pharm (Distinction) RegPharmNZ (Muaūpoko/Whanganui) is a contract clinical pharmacist based in Taupo who has experience in both community and hospital pharmacy. Leanne is the President of Ngā Kaitiaki o Te Puna Rongoā o Aotearoa (the Māori Pharmacists Association) and is currently completing further postgraduate study at the University of Auckland. | |
| | Professor John Shaw BSc, Dip ClinPharm, PhD, FNZCP, FRPharmS, FPS, RegPharmNZ is Head of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Auckland. John is actively involved in current pharmacy practice and brings an academic perspective to the Pharmacy Council. |
| | Keith Crump MPharm, PG Dip Pop Health, RegPharmNZ is a pharmacist based in Auckland with experience in hospital, teaching and primary care roles. Keith currently divides his time between working in pharmacy related roles for ProCare Health Limited, teaching undergraduate BPharm students and post grad students, and clinical work as a mental health pharmacist for the Waitemata DHB. |
| | Jo Mickleson BPharm, Diploma in Management, RegPharmNZ is a pharmacist from Nelson with wide experience in both community and hospital pharmacy. Jo is currently a member of teh Hospital Advisory Committee to the Nelson-Marlborough District Health Board and a member of the Nelson Bays rimary Health Organisation Board. She has held roles as a clinical pharmacist as well as positions in the areas of policy and management. |
| | Robynne Nicoll is a lay member based in Ashburton with long standing administration and governance experience in the Mid-Canterbury community. |
| | Dr Te Kani Kingi BSocSci (Hons), MSocSc Waik, PGDipMDev, PhD, DipTM is Director of Te Mata o te Tau, The Academy for Māori Research and Scholarship at Massey University in Wellington. He has a specialist interest in mental health research, psychometrics, and Māori health. He has formally been an executive member of the New Zealand Public Health Association, The Mental Health Advocacy Coalition, and the National Ethics Advisory Committee. He currently sits on the National Health Committee, the Public Health Advisory Committee, Statistics New Zealand's Māori Advisory Group, and is Chair of the Mental Health Commission's Advisory Board. |

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