Mei Pang

Experienced and driven pharmacist dedicated to delivering quality and timely care to patients through focus and effective communication across all platforms, working as a team. Bringing forth extensive knowledge, managed multidisciplinary pharmacy operations across Clinical Trials, Aseptic Preparations with emphasis on chemotherapy and immunotherapy, Sexual Health and HIV. Successfully implemented quality assurance and quality use of medicine. Maintaining continuing professional development and providing effective education through presentations and staff training.

• Quality Assurance on Equipment, Melbourne, 05/01/21, Updated new minimum accurately weighable mass for all weighing scales in the manufacturing area in alignment with the new APF recommendation of a 2% maximum error rate and the individual sensitivities of the scales.
• Quality Use of Medicine, Melbourne, 02/01/22, Implemented changes to the aseptic manufacturing of IV tacrolimus for significantly improved safety and accuracy of dose through research and collaboration with the pharmaceutical company, Alfred Medical Information, Drug Formulary Manager, Aseptics Senior Pharmacist, Royal Children's Hospital and an interstate hospital. Currently working towards a research paper on this subject.

• Operational Rotation Working Group, 07/01/21 - 08/31/21, To discuss and collate ideas and concerns for the next operational rotation, the duration, preferences given versus allocated, fixed sequential rotation and staggering start times for pharmacists and technicians.
• Near Miss Working Group, 06/01/21 - 09/30/21, To update the near miss recording procedure and discuss types of errors that needed to be recorded. Reviewed ipharmacy intervention and investigated a new online recording. Trialled both to work out the most effective method and rewrote the procedure in Sharepoint.

Professional Development (Type 1) 2024

• TB in the outpatient setting
• IV fluid selection for patients
• NRT
• Liver Disease
• Treatment in Heart Failure
• Formulary compliance in dispensing
• Epilepsy and the treatments

Professional Development Presentations (Type 3) 2024

• Dispensing an Inpatient Order
• Dispensing Prescriptions and Medication orders
• ADM Omnicell Inventory Management
• Introduction to Medical Terminologies, Abbreviations and Symbols
• Medical Eponyms and Application of Medical Terms in a Hospital
• Medical Terminologies in a Clinical Setting
• Introduction to Pharmacology
• Basic Pharmacology
• Clinical Pharmacology
• Toolkit: Infectious Disease: Solid foundation knowledge of HIV and ARV therapies and management, drug interaction checkers, STI and various treatment guidelines Feb 2022
• Effective Communications in the Workplace, Open University, 12/01/22
• 7 Techniques for Effective Leadership Negotiation Process, Alfred Health, 10/01/22
• Good Clinical Practice, NIDA Clinical Trials Network, 02/01/22
• HIV and ART, Alfred LEX, 02/01/22
• MSHC Treatments and Guidelines, MSHC, 02/01/22
• Foundation Seminar in Compounding, SHPA, 03/01/21
• Living with HIV and treatment, 08/01/17
• Nicotine dependence scoring and treatment selection, pharmacotherapy including NRT, varenicline and bupropion, contraindications, interactions and adverse effects. 05/11
• Introduction to HIV, Infectious Disease, Alfred Health, 07/01/11
• Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of aminoglycosides and vancomycin. Jul 2009
• Introductory Seminar in Clinical Pharmacy Practice, SHPA, 06/01/07
• Good Clinical Practice for Research Professionals, Association of Clinical Research, 05/01/07

• Spending quality time with friends and family.
• Skiing: My passion in skiing started as a teenager. I almost went over the cliff on my first run at Falls Creek but that didn't stop me. Since then I've been skiing every year until Covid hit. Went to Hotham last year, crashing my bestie's family trip and had an absolute ball from fine dining to heliskiing.
• Snowboarding: Love it but still a beginner.
• Hiking: Love nature and the outdoors. What better way to get my steps up than hiking?
• Dining out: Feeling blessed to live in the food capital of Australia, I love to explore the food scene from the humble Banh Mi to fine dining at Rockpool.
• Travelling: Love exploring other cultures and practice speaking in the local language.
• Movies: I'm a fan of comedies, action and thriller. Can't go past a Marvel or Disney movie.
• Surfing: Not great at it but love it. I can stand on the board for 2 whole seconds.

• Dispensing and In-Patient order: Product selection, i-pharmacy dispensing, preparing the product, label and scan, present for checking.
• Dispensing Discharges and Medication orders- Screen a prescription, understand the PBS and present for checking.
• ADM Omnicell Inventory Management- Introduction to ADM and how to restock and destock.
• Introduction to Medical Teminologies-BSBMED301 Interpret and apply pharmacological terminologies in Hospital Pharmacy.
• Medical Eponyms and Application of Medical Terms in Hospital-BSBMED301 Medical Eponyms, origins and application in the hospital
• Medical Terminologies in the Clinical Setting-BSBMED301 Medical terms, the composition and human physiology.
• Introduction to Pharmacology-HLTPHA029 Apply knowledge of chemical principles to pharmacy activity and Pharmacokinetics.
• Basic Pharmacology-HLTPHA029 Apply knowledge of chemical principles to pharmacy activity and Pharmacodynamics.
• Clinical Pharmacology-HLTPHA029 Apply knowledge of chemical principles to pharmacy activity and Principles of Pharmacology in medication management.
• Blood Cancers and Treatments- Types of blood cancers, causes, epidemiology, prognosis and treatment with chemotherapy and immunotherapy.
• Aseptic Compounding for Paediatrics- Paediatric dosing, measurements of small volumes, dead spaces, inherent errors and minimum accurately measurable volumes of syringes.

• Operational Rotation Working Group, 07/01/21 - 08/31/21 Discussed and collated ideas for the next operational rotation on the duration, preferences given versus allocated, fixed sequential rotation and staggering start times for pharmacists and technicians.
• Near Miss Working Group, 06/01/21 - 09/30/21 Updated near miss recording procedure and discussed types of errors to be recorded. Reviewed ipharmacy intervention and investigated a new online recording. Rewrote the procedure in Sharepoint.