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 the Chair of the Faculty of Health Board and Professor of Pharmacy at the University of Canberra. He teaches primarily in clinical therapeutics and pharmacy practice. His career includes: academic, community pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, and credentialed pharmacist in Tasmania, Northern Territory, and the ACT. Mark 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. Mark occasionally performs medication reviews works in community pharmacy.

Mark’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 previously served on the Tasmanian PSA Branch committee and the South Australian/Northern Territory PSA Branch committee.

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

Mark has been a PSA member for >25 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.