Alfredo Martínez, professor at the University of Navarra, VII award COF Navarra
The awards for the best doctoral thesis and the best work went to Elena Bujanda and Idoya Beltrán, respectively.
high school The Official Pharmacists' Association of Navarra held the VII Edition of the COF Navarra Awards, which went to Alfredo Martínez, professor at the University of Navarra, and Plácido Gascó, for the Basque-Navarre Society of Smoking Prevention Program.
The Full Professor of Bromatology of the academic center received the award to the "Pharmacist with significant professional career", for his contribution in the field of Nutrition, "where he has become a reference not only nationally, but internationally. Member of several societies in the last 10 years, he is also advisor of the European Union; Corresponding Academician of the Royal National Academy of Pharmacy since 1997; and has been board member of Food, member of three Boards of Governors and representative in the Commission of training Continued of the health professions within the high school Official of the Autonomous Community", highlighted in the act.
The awards, sponsored by Cinfa Laboratories, have the goal to distinguish people and media that have helped the professionalization of Pharmacy. high school The submission awards ceremony was part of the traditional Festival of the Patron Saint of the Official Pharmacists' Association of Navarra.
award totwo researchers from the School of Pharmacy
Likewise, the best doctoral thesis and the best work of the 2008-09 academic year were awarded to two researchers from the School of Pharmacy, Elena Bujanda and Idoya Beltrán, for their research "project EDUMAY. Effectiveness of a pharmaceutical intervention in the optimization of pharmacotherapy and in Education for Health in elderly residents in the supervised apartments of the Pamplona City Council"; and for the work "design, implementation and assessment of an innovation program professor in the subject Estancias, of the School Pharmacy of the University of Navarra", respectively.
The ceremony, presided over by María Kutz, Minister of Health of the Government of Navarra, Enrique Ordieres, President of Laboratorios Cinfa -sponsor of the awards-, and Pilar García, President of high school Official Pharmacists of Navarra, was also attended by the Director General of Health of the Government of Navarra, Isabel Martín Montaner, and the Mayor of Pamplona, Yolanda Barcina, among other authorities.
Finally, the celebration welcomed 55 new members in 2009, honored the Medicines Information Center for its 25th anniversary and paid tribute to the 24 members with more than 50 years of membership.