New Professor of Pharmacy at Reading
Reading's new School of Pharmacy has appointed Elizabeth Williamson as Professor of Pharmacy. Professor Williamson, whose research interests are the medical uses of natural medicines and the insecticidal effects of natural products, joins Reading from the University of London's School of Pharmacy, where she was a senior lecturer in Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy. Her appointment comes shortly after the official launch of the new School and the addition of Professor Adrian Williams to the School's staff as director of Pharmaceutics.
Professor Williamson has been a practising pharmacist since 1978, and has experience in both hospital and community pharmacy as a superintendent pharmacist, and more recently as an NVQ pharmacy technician supervisor.
Postgraduate education at Reading's School of Pharmacy began in January 2005 with an RPSGB-accredited course on Supplementary Prescribing for Pharmacists. In addition, the school has recently obtained Stage 3 Accreditation from the RPSGB to enrol students on to the four-year Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) programme from October 2005.