23 June 2006
Victorian College of Pharmacy senior lecturer Ms Anne Leversha has won a 2006 Rural Health Award for her work in health education and professional development in the pharmacy profession.
Ms Leversha was one of five regional winners announced at the Rural Health Week launch in Shepparton recently.
She was nominated by the Society of Hospital Pharmacists for her work in practising and promoting rural clinical pharmacy during her 25-year career in Victoria.
Ms Leversha is a senior lecturer in the Victorian College of Pharmacy and at Monash's Gippsland Regional Clinical School as well as Manager of Pharmacy Services at Latrobe Regional Hospital.
She is also the National Rural Adviser to the Society of Hospital Pharmacists and was appointed late last year as a regional representative on a new state-wide advisory committee, the Victorian Medicines Advisory Committee.
Ms Leversha said she was proud to be nominated for the Rural Health Award.
"It is especially pleasing when you are nominated by your peers, because their understanding of the job and their opinion on how you do your work is important," she said.
"It is nice recognition, too, of the role we play as pharmacists, when awards such as this are open to all health professionals."
The award recognises a commitment to the improvement of health within rural Victoria beyond a person's professional duty.
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Photographs of Ms Leversha are available. | 
