Dr Natalie Soulsby has been a member of the SA Branch Committee for the last 2 years. Dr Natalie Soulsby has a background working as a clinical pharmacist in the acute sector prior to becoming an accredited pharmacist in 2010. She works at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in the Multidisciplinary Ambulatory Clinic as part of the Clinical Pharmacology team. Dr Natalie Soulsby is Head of Clinical Excellence, Governance and Quality for Ward Medication Management (WardMM), leading a team of over 40 pharmacists.

She is dedicated to improving medication management especially in the elderly by helping rationalise the prescribing of medications and educating health care professionals. She has been an invited presenter at Aged Care conferences including LASA and ACSA (now ACCPA), and ConPharm, SHPA and PSA. She is involved in training pharmacists, building their clinical knowledge and runs regular CPD sessions for her team. She has been recognized for her work by receiving SA Pharmacist of the Year 2016 and AACP Consultant Pharmacist of the Year 2017. In 2019  was awarded the Advanced Pharmacist Practice credential.

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Dr Amanda Cross is a practising pharmacist and postdoctoral research fellow. Dr Amanda Cross’s research focuses on quality use of medicine, particularly evaluating innovative roles for pharmacists to support safe and effective use of medicines. Dr Amanda Cross has worked in community pharmacy and as a consultant pharmacist, and is currently investigating the roles of on-site aged care pharmacists.

Dr Amanda Cross was a member of the Victorian Branch Committee 2017-2021, including serving as Vice President 2018-2021. In 2019 Dr Amanda Cross was awarded the PSA Victorian Early Career Pharmacist of the year award.

A/Prof Helen Benson is an accredited consultant pharmacist with more than 20 years pharmacy experience. Her varied career has included working as a hospital pharmacist, military pharmacist in the Royal Australian Airforce, community pharmacist and as a community pharmacy owner. Currently A/Prof Helen Benson is working as a Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice teaching Master of Pharmacy Students at the University of Technology Sydney. A/Prof Helen Benson has a particular interest in improving patient therapy through medication reviews and continues to work as a consultant pharmacist providing medication reviews for referring general practitioners. In 2019 A/Prof Helen Benson completed a PhD investigating the integration of pharmacists in general practice teams in Australia. A/Prof Helen Benson’s current research is focussed on expanding scope of practice within the profession to allow pharmacists to perform their role as medication experts.

Bridget Totterman B.Pharm; GAICD, MPS  joined the PSA board in 2023.

Bridget is a registered pharmacist and community pharmacy owner with over 15 years’ experience in whole of business management including operations and frontline leadership.

She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD).

Bridget is a member of the Australian Community Pharmacy Authority (ACPA) and is a member of the Queensland branch committee for the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia.

Bridget was awarded with the Bowl of Hygiea – QLD Pharmacist of the Year in 2020 for outstanding leadership and change management.

Bridget was a member of the Steering Advisory Group (SAG) for UTIPP-Q (2020-2022) and was a vaccinating pharmacist in QPIP (2014). She is credentialed to administer injections and immunisations. Bridget was appointed Clinical Fellow of Queensland University of Technology in 2018 and is a member of the Course Advisory Group for QUT Bachelor of Pharmacy (Hons.).

Bridget has completed courses in Directorships; Management; Marketing; Successful Negotiations; Human Resources and has an Associate Diploma in Speech and Drama.

A/Prof Fei Sim is the first female National President to lead PSA since its Federation in 1977. A/Prof Sim is a Senior Lecturer and the Coordinator of International Engagement in the Curtin Medical School at Curtin University, Western Australia (WA).

In 2020 she was also made a Fellow of the Society before being appointed as a Director on the PSA National Board in 2021. A/Prof Sim has over 14 years of clinical practice experience and is currently a practising community pharmacist and a community pharmacy proprietor. A/Prof Sim also served as PSA’s WA President from 2017 to 2021.

A/Prof Sim holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Pharmacy and a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree with First Class Honours and is a qualified pharmacist immuniser and an Accredited Mental Health First Aid Instructor. She is a Fellow of the PSA and the Higher Education Academy, and a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. A/Prof Sim serves on a number of professional and academic committees.

A/Prof Sim was awarded the Excellence and Innovation in Teaching Award in 2014, the PSA WA Early Career Pharmacist Award in 2018 and the National Early Career Pharmacist of The Year Award in 2019, all of which are testament to her commitment to patient care, learning and teaching, leadership in pharmacy, innovation and initiative in pharmacy service delivery, as well as peer and professional engagement.

A/Prof Sim is an active pharmacy practice researcher and is also the recipient of a number of research grants and projects focusing on advancing the practice of pharmacy and the implementation of professional pharmacy services in community pharmacy, including the noteworthy JM O’Hara Research Fund grant from the Pharmaceutical Society of West Australia (PSWA) in 2018. Through this grant, A/Prof Sim and her team conducted and published on a feasibility study on point-of-care C-reactive protein testing in community pharmacy. It is hoped this project will contribute towards facilitating antimicrobial stewardship and advancing evidence-based community pharmacy practice to improve recognition of pharmacists’ roles and remuneration.

Prof Mark Naunton is currently Head of the School of Health Sciences and Professor of Pharmacy at the University of Canberra and teaches primarily in therapeutics and pharmacy practice. His career includes: academic, community pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, and accredited pharmacist in Tasmania, Northern Territory, and the ACT. Prof Mark Naunton has a wide-reaching interest in the pharmacy profession and has worked internationally as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He is credentialed to undertake medication reviews and occasionally practice in community pharmacy.

Prof Mark’ Naunton’s recent research has focused on expanding the scope of practice of pharmacists and has supervised several PhD candidates in two relevant areas: evaluating the impact of pharmacists working in general practice and RACFs.

He has served on the Tasmanian PSA Branch committee (2000-2001) and the South Australian/Northern Territory PSA Branch committee (2008-2010).

Prof Mark Naunton has been on the PSA ACT branch committee since 2017 and served on the PSA National Board since 2022 and graduated from the Australian Institute of Company Directors in 2022.

Prof Mark Naunton has been a PSA member for 20 years and an active member of the pharmacy profession for over 25 years. He undertook one of the first clinical trials in Australia evaluating the benefits of HMRs post-discharge. He has also been involved in various evaluations of community pharmacist screening (osteoporosis) and disease management (cardiovascular disease. Mark is passionate about medication safety and firmly believes pharmacists are the most suited professional to ensure this occurs.

Caroline Diamantis is a passionate community pharmacist with over 30 years of experience in pharmacy ownership.

Shortly after completing her Bachelor of Pharmacy at Sydney University, she was able to fulfil her dream of buying her first pharmacy, where she realised the importance of differentiating pharmacists as professionals, advocating clinical pharmacy and the professional services model.

Caroline went on to become a director on the board of Blooms the Chemist, where she spent several years advocating for female pharmacy owners and gender diversity in industry leadership positions, and mentoring early career pharmacists (ECPs) into ownership roles with programs designed to support and engage.

Caroline was elected as Vice President of the NSW Pharmacy Guild in 2017. In this role she continued advocating for community pharmacy, particularly clinical pharmacy, and for pharmacists to be acknowledged and remunerated fairly for their role in primary health care and the critical difference they make to health outcomes.

Other Pharmacy Guild positions have included chairperson of the Viability sub-committee and Finance and Risk sub-committee, and alternate National Councillor.

Caroline is a passionate advocate for recognition of the profession during crisis, seeking acknowledgement and financial support from the NSW government. She is committed to addressing workforce issues, including mentorship to ECPs and support and advocacy for appropriate pharmacist salaries, and determined to achieve full scope of clinical practice.