Mei Pang

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

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
• 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

2024

• Inpatient dispensing
• Dispensing discharges and Medication orders
• ADM Omnicell Inventory Management
• Introduction to Medical Terminologies
• Medical Eponyms and Application of Medical Terms in Hospital
• Medical Terminologies in the Clinical Setting
• Introduction to Pharmacology
• Basic Pharmacology
• Clinical Pharmacology
• Blood Cancers and Treatments, Melbourne, 09/01/21, Presented on the different types of blood cancers, causes, epidemiology, prognosis and treatment regimens with chemotherapy and immunotherapy.
• Aseptic Compounding for Paediatrics, Melbourne, 04/01/21, Presented on paediatric dosing covering measurements of small volumes, dead spaces, inherent errors and minimum accurately measurable volumes of syringes.
• On Call requests for aseptic preparations, Melbourne, 08/01/18, Presented on guidelines for after-hours orders of aseptic products for on-call pharmacists, availability of pre-made Baxter infusions in wards and the manufacture of approved ambisome orders.
• Clinical Trial Symposium, Melbourne, 06/01/07, Customer Service Survey Poster of CRAs conducting monitoring visits at AH CT pharmacy.

• 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.

• 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 clearly 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.
• Hiking: Love nature and the outdoors hence hiking. What better way to get my steps up than that?
• Dining out: I like to eat and as we're 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, I'm all in.
• Travelling: Love exploring other cultures and practice speaking in the local language.
• Movies: I'm a fan of comedies, action, thriller. Can't go past a Marvel or Disney movie.
• Snowboarding: Will always be a beginner..
• Surfing: Not great at it but love it.
• Gym: Used to be a fanatic, not so much these days

My passion in skiing started as a teenager. I almost went over the cliff on my first run at Falls Creek but that clearly 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. 

Love nature and the outdoors hence hiking. What better way to get my steps up than that?

I like to eat and as we're 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, I'm all in.