{"id":18356,"date":"2014-12-10T07:29:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T23:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/media-release\/curtin-professor-awarded-medal-excellence-pharmacy\/"},"modified":"2024-08-30T09:58:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T01:58:05","slug":"curtin-professor-awarded-medal-excellence-pharmacy","status":"publish","type":"media-release","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/media-release\/curtin-professor-awarded-medal-excellence-pharmacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtin Professor awarded medal for excellence in pharmacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Jeff Hughes from Curtin\u2019s School of Pharmacy has been awarded the 2014 Australasian Pharmaceutical Sciences Association (APSA) Medal.<\/p>\n<p>The Medal is APSA\u2019s highest accolade to recognise excellence and lasting contribution to the pharmaceutical sciences and pharmacy practice.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Hughes is the first academic from Curtin to receive the APSA Medal and he joins a list of Australasian pharmacy luminaries who have received the honour since its inception in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Curtin\u2019s Pro Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Professor Michael Berndt, congratulated Professor Hughes on the significant achievement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProfessor Hughes is a senior figure in pharmacy practice innovation, pharmaceutical sciences research and pharmacy education across Australia and New Zealand,\u201d Professor Berndt said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis commitment to teaching and learning has established his international reputation as a pharmacy educator with a strong emphasis on student-centred evidence-based teaching for undergraduates, postgraduates and practitioners in pharmacy and other allied disciplines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/apsa-medal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28179 aligncenter\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/apsa-medal.jpg\" alt=\"The APSA medal\" width=\"792\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Professor Hughes has published over 200 research and professional papers and contributed to 17 books, and is also an accredited pharmacist. His research interests include adverse drug reactions, infectious diseases and cognitive impairment and dementia.<\/p>\n<p>He has also been the recipient of a number of prestigious awards recognising his contribution to the profession and leadership.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the Australasian Pharmaceutical Sciences Association (APSA) Medal is selected from nominations by the APSA Committee based on academic achievements and contribution to the Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Jeff Hughes from Curtin\u2019s School of Pharmacy has been awarded the 2014 Australasian Pharmaceutical Sciences Association (APSA) Medal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":10068,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-18356","media-release","type-media-release","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":[{"title":"","qualification":"","link":"","description":"","faculty":""}],"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}},"experts":false},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/jeff-hughes-mr.jpg","author_meta":{"first_name":"Curtin","last_name":"University","display_name":"Â鶹ֱ²¥"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/18356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/media-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/18356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18356"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=18356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}