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sizing the current development of systems biology), medical (demographics, genetics, smoking, alcohol, diet and multiple diseases), socioeconomic (availability of resources, literacy) and cultural (beliefs, traditions, religion). Pharmacists have the ability and opportunity to support patients in every aspect of complexity. Sessions within the Congress will address the needs of complex patients, how these needs are currently being met, and emerging and future strategies for treating the complex patient. By providing evidence-based scientific information and embracing collaborative practice, the pharmacist should have a critical role in dealing with complexity in patient care.
Finding Solutions The 2013 FIP Congress will focus on how the pharmacist is ideally skilled and positioned to ensure that complex patients receive the best care possible. Featuring thousands of pharmacists from all over the world and from all areas of pharmacy practice and science, the FIP Congress will convene in Dublin to work toward a future in which multidisciplinary approaches maximize healthcare contributions for the full benefit of patients, despite their wide range of social, cultural, medical, biological and medical diversity. For more information on the FIP Congress and its perspective on complex patients, visit the FIP Web site at www.fip.org/ dublin2013.
Help Fight HIV Abroad As of 2011, the United Nations estimates that 5.6 million South Africans are living with HIV. Burdened by a shortage of midlevel healthcare workers, the South African Pharmacy Council has established new standards to better prepare students for marketplace expectations and to help improve the HIV/AIDS service delivery system. To surpass these standards, the Volunteer Healthcare Corps is recruiting an academic pharmacist to serve as a mentor at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Department of Pharmacy in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. For 3–6 months, the academic pharmacist will work on the frontlines of change to improve South African healthcare, providing curriculum development expertise and support, developing faculty teaching skills through formal and side-by-side training, and directly teaching students in their own area of expertise. Applicants should have a Pharm.D. or equivalent, familiarity with curriculum development, and at least three years of experience in academic pharmacy. For more information, visit http:// www.twinningagainstaids.org/documents/ ScopeofWorkNMMUPTA_PT100312.pdf.
academic Pharmacy now  Spring 2013
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