About Us
The Pharmaceutical Care Network Europe (PCNE) was established in 1994 by a number of European pharmaceutical care researchers. It became an official association (under Dutch law) in 2004. According to the bylaws, the aim of PCNE is to help to develop pharmacy along the lines of pharmaceutical care in the involved European countries through:
- stimulating pharmaceutical care and pharmacy related outcome research in Europe
- stimulating research and implementation projects carried out in more countries simultaneously;
- organising a bi-annual working conference around pharmaceutical care and pharmacy practice research
- all other possible activities that serve the aim of the association.
Current board members of the PCNE:
- Kurt E. Hersberger (Chairperson, Switzerland)
- Nina Griese (Secretary, Germany)
- Maria Cordina (Secretary, Malta)
- Mary Tully (United Kingdom)
- Veerle Fouon (Belgium)
- Charlotte Rossing (Denmark)
How to become a member
The membership of PCNE is open to any person or institution that does pharmaceutical care research and/or implementation and/or implementation research in Europe. There is no special fee, but members are requested to sign a Letter of Intent. This letter basically is a document that stresses the fair relationships between all members, respect for the intellectual ownership of projects, methods and studies.
All members (or representatives of Institutional members) at some point during their membership, are expected to be part of the board for a certain period of time (usually 6 years), of which 2 years as chairperson or secretary. To be able to become a member of the PCNE Association, an institution must present their pharmaceutical care related work in General Assembly of PCNE. After the presentation, the members present decide upon membership.
the Pharmaceutical Care Network Europe also knows Observers. Observers are natural persons or Institutions that live, or have their seat, outside of Europe, but are also active in pharmaceutical care research. Observers do not have voting rights in the PCNE Association, but are free to attend and participate in the exchange of ideas and projects. Just like individual and institutional members, observers also must sign a Letter of Intent.
Members
The current members of the PCNE:
- Filipa Alves da Costa (Portugal)
- Cecilia Bernsten (Sweden)
- Paul Bissell (United Kingdom)
- Ingeborg Bjorkman (Sweden)
- Lyda Blom (the Netherlands)
- Olivier Bugnon (Switzerland)
- Carme Capdevila (Spain)
- Margarida Caramona (Portugal)
- Maria Cordina (Malta)
- Peter de Smet (The Netherlands)
- Tobias Dreischulte (Germany/United Kingdom)
- Iñigo Gorostiza (Spain)
- Mara Guerreiro (Portugal)
- Kurt Hersberger (Switzerland)
- Marleen Haems (Belgium)
- Martin Henman (Ireland)
- Carmel Hughes (United Kingdom)
- Mitja Kos (Slovenia)
- James McElnay (United Kingdom)
- Peter Noyce (United Kingdom)
- Ema Paulino (Portugal)
- Marina Petric (Serbia)
- Sirpa Peura, Finlnd
- Antal Samu (Hungary)
- Marion Schaefer (Germany)
- Martin Schulz (Germany)
- Sonia Silva (Portugal)
- Birthe Søndergaard (Denmark)
- Helge Stromme (Norway)
- Dick Tromp (the Netherlands)
- Mary Tully (United Kingdom)
- Foppe van Mil (The Netherlands)
- Frank Verheijen (Germany)
- Tommy Westerlund (Sweden)
- Belgium: Algemene Pharmaceutische Bond (APB), Brussels
- Belgium: Univ. of Leuven. Ond.centr. Farm.Zorg & Farmaco-economie
- Bosnia & Herzegowina: Farmaceutska Komora
- Czech Republic: University of Brno, Dept. of Pharmacy Practice
- Denmark: Pharmakon, Hilleroed
- Denmark: Univ. of Copenhagen, Section for Social Pharmacy
- Germany: ABDA-ZAPP, Berlin
- Germany: Martin Luther Universität, Dept. Clinical Pharmacy, Halle
- Germany: University of Bonn, Pharmaceutical Institute, Dept. of Clinical Pharmacy
- Iceland: Al-BAS, Hafnarfjordur
- Malta: Malta School of Pharmacy, Msida
- Portugal: ANF-DPCF, Lisbon
- Portugal: Univ. of Lisboa. Fac. Farmacia, Dept of Social Pharmacy
- Serbia: Univ. of Belgrade, Dept. of Social Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical history
- Spain: Consejo General de Colegios Oficiales de Farmacéuticos, Madrid
- Spain: Pharmaceutical Care Foundation
- Spain: Univ. of Barcelona. Dept. of Clinical Pharmacy
- Spain: Univ. of Granada. Research Group Pharm Care
- United Kingdom: Univ. of Nottingham, Centre for Pharmacy, Health & Society
- United Kingdom: University of Leeds, Dept. of pharmacy
- Almut Winterstein, Gainesville, USA
- Australia: School of Pharmacy of the University of Sydney, Queensland.
- Peru/South America: Redsaf
- Raymond Okechkwu, Nigeria
- Salah Abruz, Jordan