Meet the Team

Raymond Anderson

President (Northern Ireland)

CPA Europe Region – Northern Ireland

Raymond has experience of working in Community Pharmacy for over thirty-six years, which has enabled

him to gain an understanding of the issues facing pharmacy both locally and nationally. His current post

is as a partner at Andersons Pharmacy, Portadown. He is an Independent Pharmacy Prescriber since

2007 and has a history of working with GP’s, holding hypertension and hyperlipidaemia clinics and

reviewing and supporting patients with long-term conditions.

Raymond has been appointed to many advisory committees and has been a Member of the Council of

the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland, holding the post of Treasurer from 2002 to 2005 and

President from 2006 to 2009. He has been a member of DHSS&PS Central Pharmaceutical Advisory

Committee and is a past Chairman. He was a member of the Professional Development committee at the

Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland 2012 to 2015.

With a strong interest in pharmacy issues in Europe and the Commonwealth, Raymond is currently

President of the Commonwealth Pharmacists’ Association, elected representative for the Pharmaceutical

Group of the European Union (PGEU) for Northern Ireland and member of the Pharmaceutical Society of

N.Ireland’s Pharmacy Forum. He was appointed to the European Medicines Agency’s “Pharmacovigilance

Review Assessment Committee (PRAC)” by the European Commission in April 2016.

Raymond was appointed to the post of clinical lead Pharmacist to C&B Primary Care Partnership in 2012

and subsequently to C&B Integrated Care Partnership in 2013. He brings his breadth of experience to the

ICP and was elected Chair in June 2014. He held this post until June 2016.

Raymond is a strong advocate for the role pharmacy can play in transforming the care of patients with

long-term conditions (LTC’s). Medication is one of the key components in managing LTC’s and

Pharmacists are in a key position to help reduce the pressure on our health services.

Ivan Kotze

Immediate Past President (South Africa)

CPA Eastern & Southern Africa Region – South Africa

 

Lorraine Osman

Vice President and Regional Representative for Eastern and Southern Africa (South Africa)

Lorraine Osman’s work has taken her into most sectors of pharmacy, including academia, community pharmacy, drug information, private hospital pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry. She spent fourteen years at the Wits School of Pharmacy, first at the Technikon and then at the University, where she was the head of the Pharmacy Practice division. Her current employer is the Pharmaceutical Society of South Africa, where she is the head of public affairs. Lorraine is the editor of the SA Pharmaceutical Journal, the South African Pharmacist’s Assistant magazine, the PSSA electronic newsletter and the Pharmacy Law Compendium. She is also the Vice President of the South African Pharmacy Council.

 

Rao V. S. V. Vadlamudi

Vice President and Regional Representative for Asia (India)

Pharm- 1973, M. Pharm (Pharm. Chem.)- 1976;

Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India

Sc.- 1980, Ph. D. (Pharmacology and Toxicology)- 1983;

The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

In 1984, Rao Vadlamudi started his career at UDCT, Matunga, Mumbai, and during a career spanning 31 years till date, he worked in academia as well as in the industry in various capacities.

Academic positions held by Dr. Vadlamudi include Reader in Pharmacology, UDCT, Professor in Pharmacology, Bombay College of Pharmacy (BCP), first ever Director of BCP and currently the Director of St. Peter’s Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Warangal.

His industry career began in 1990 in the Hoechst Research Centre as Head, Pharmacology. He was Head, Pharmacology in Piramal Research Centre; VP, Discovery Biology in Suven Life Sciences; VP and Principal Fellow in Nektar Therapeutics India Limited, and Sr. VP-Life Sciences at Vimta Labs Ltd, Hyd.

He was the Editor of Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the official scientific publication of the Indian Pharmaceutical Association (IPA) from 1996-2014. In 2014 he was elected as the President of Indian Pharmaceutical Association for the term 2014-2016. He and his team of office bearers successfully organized the 61^st IPSF world Congress in Hyderabad in Aug 2015 and IPA received the best association award at the 5^th India Association Congress in Aug 2015.

Rao Vadlamudi guided 30 M. Pharm., and 2 Ph. D. students. He authored and coauthored 25 research publications, 22 poster and oral presentations and delivered more than 100 invited lectures on various topics related to Drug Discovery & Development and Scientific Writing.

He received the Fellowship of the Indian Pharmaceutical Association in 2000; received Dr. B. N. Ghosh Memorial Oration Award of the Indian Pharmacological Society in 2005, the Prof. M. L. Khorana Memorial Lecture Award of the IPA in 2009, the Eminent Pharmacist award of IPA in 2013, the IPA President Special Oration award in 2014 and the Fellowship of the Association of Biotechnology and Pharmacy in Dec 2014.

Kalawattie Datt-Singh

Regional Representative for the Americas (Guyana)

Godfried Bampoe Abu

Regional Representative for Western Africa (Ghana)

 

 

Nancy Ho

Regional Representative for the Pacific (Malaysia)

 

 

Mary Anne Ciappara

Regional Representative for Europe (Malta)

 

 

Mr Ashok Soni

Hon. Treasurer (Great Britain)

 

 

Roger Odd

Hon. Secretary (Great Britain)

Vicky Rutter

Executive Director (Great Britain)

MPharm PGDipClinPharm FFRPS MRPharmS

Victoria was appointed as the executive director of CPA in April 2016.

Originally a graduate of the London School of Pharmacy and a previous clinical pharmacist at Barts and the London NHS Trust, Victoria’s international career began when she relocated to Singapore in 2006.

During her ten years in Singapore, Victoria led a team of cardiac pharmacists and developed an extensive portfolio of clinical practice activities, with a special interest in evidence-based clinical service improvement, professional development, and post-graduate education.

Her passion to develop and inspire pharmacists to excel in the profession led Victoria to set up several collaborations between Singapore, the UK and Australia to develop Professional Development Frameworks and post-graduate training programmes for pharmacists in Singapore. Before joining CPA, she was employed to pioneer a post-graduate development programme for hospital pharmacists in a new government healthcare cluster.

As an active member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Singapore, Victoria served three terms planning the scientific programme for the annual national pharmacy congress. She is widely recognized for her involvement in the pharmacy professional development arena at a global level, both by her publications and her presentations at numerous international conferences and events.

Victoria has partnering with the Executive Committee in heading up the leadership of the organization. She is working on organizational development, raising the profile of CPA and delivering on CPA’s strategic plan, which is currently focused on fundraising, membership and extending the projects and activities supported by the organization.

Tatiana Hardy

CPA Administrator (Great Britain)