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M.T.M | MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT
Less Medicines | Better Health
MELB
AN AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & AGED CARE, MEDICARE-FUNDED & PPA PROGRAM
We're on a mission to bring one-of-a-kind medication management services to everybody's home
Nice to meet you!
We are a small team of listeners, thinkers and problem solvers.
Not just your average community pharmacist, we are trained, accredited by the
Australian Association of Consultant Pharmacy
and credentialed by the
Pharmaceutical Society of Australia.
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We do much more for your health and medicines management.
- IMPORTANT NOTE -
In Australia, any registered pharmacist with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) can conduct a medication review inside a community pharmacy without any formal medication review training.
However, only an Australian Association of Consultant Pharmacy (AACP) or the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia's (PSA) accredited pharmacist can conduct a full comprehensive medication review in your home based on your blood tests and reports to guide us on the best medication choice and management.
Your only safeguard is looking for the letters AACPA, MPS-AACPA, or BCGP (USA) after a pharmacist's name. Only fully qualified accredited pharmacist can have these titles after their name to reflect their years of postgraduate training and education.
Our pharmacists are all Advanced Pharmacy Australia recognised as consultants. Look for the letters FANZCAP after our pharmacist names.
THE CONSULTANT PHARMACIST THAT YOU NEED IS
Founding Director
Clinical Pharmacist - Consultant-level
CHARMANE J.W. OW
BPharm | MPH | GradCertAppPharmPrac | GradCertMedHlthLead |AACPA
FANZCAP (OncHaem, ClinTrials)
"focuses on polypharmacy & adherence"
Charmane is a senior oncology, haematology, and clinical trials consultant pharmacist in Melbourne. Since graduating with a Bachelor of Pharmacy from the University of Queensland and a Master of Public Health from Griffith University, she has been practising exclusively in a specialised hospital pharmacy setting.
Charmane is classified as a consultant-level practitioner, practising at the highest scope of specialised practice in Australian pharmacist standards (SHPA/AdPha) in haematology and clinical trials.
She is currently a clinical pharmacist focusing on haemato-oncology and new drug trials. Her central role is to ensure safe medication use and post-chemotherapy care for cancer patients on clinical trial drugs. On top of that, she is part of a team of clinical pharmacists in researching new drugs for blood-related cancers.
Charmane's clinical experience in hospital pharmacy identified that many hospital admissions are medicine-related and can be avoided with optimal medication management. In addition, her experience with war veterans in a private hospital environment identified many potential areas of medication improvement after leaving the hospital.
Seeing the need to aid patients' medicines management during the important transition from hospital to home, Charmane co-founded dose·check to minimise medication confusion after hospital discharge for all patients. Think of it as bringing the pharmacist home along with your medicine bags.
Her medication reviews focus on hospital-to-home oncology and clinical trials medicine management, side effects management, polypharmacy and most importantly - adherence.
Charmane's HMR reports are easy to read, concise, straight-to-the-point and easy to execute.
Charmane is originally from sunny Singapore but calls Australia and its people home.
Medication Reviews: 8am - 5pm
"the business of pharmacy gets in the way of good pharmacy"
Board Certified in Lifestyle Medicine | Pharmacist
ZACHARY Z. SUM
BPharm (Hons.) | MPH | PDipDermatology | GradCertAppPharmPrac | GradCertHealthProfessionalsEd | CertIVTAE| CertIVNutr | dipIBLM | AACPA | CPO | MPS | FRSA | FASLM | FRSPH | FANZCAP (Derm., Surg.)
Zachary Sum is a Melbourne-trained registered, accredited, credentialed and consultant pharmacist and nutritionist.
He is classified as a consultant-level practitioner, practising at the highest scope of specialised practice in Australian pharmacist standards (SHPA/AdPha) in dermatology and surgery.
Zachary completed his pharmacy training at Monash University graduating with Honours. After his internship, he got accepted into an accredited consultant pharmacist training program, where he underwent in-depth training in geriatric medication management.
Having spent time in a community pharmacy, Zach knows first-hand the issues surrounding patients' medicines. It's not just about handing out the prescription whenever the patient wants it; it's about whether the medicine works for them.
Patients often just need the extra 10 minutes with a pharmacist to identify a medication-related problem - but this never happens in the community pharmacy.
"It is often said that the business of pharmacy gets in the way of good pharmacy"
After learning from top pharmacists, Zach entered private practice and is now on a mission to bring the pharmacist to you - in your home by observing how you take and manage your medicines.
As an accredited and credentialed consultant pharmacist in the field of medication management, Zachary has a particular interest in psychosocial intervention and lifestyle medicine changes in preventing and managing non-communicable diseases. He currently practices extensively in reversing early-onset hypertension and Type 2 diabetes via culinary nutrition and disease state education.
Zachary's prior appointment as a Corporal in the Army & Air Force (Reserve) allows him to understand the mindset of Australian veterans (DVA) and their medication needs.
In 2020, he received a Fellowship from the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) for contributing to pharmaceutical health equity in his local community. Subsequently, in 2021, he is Australia's inaugural pharmacist Fellow in the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine (FASLM). He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health (FRSPH) for his contributions to public health in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Recently, in 2024, he was the first Australian to be awarded the Diplomate by the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine.
He trained under esteemed procedural specialist general practitioners Dr Hossain Islam and Dr Mahmud Ali under the Canadian male-focused surgical group Pollock Group headed by Dr Neil Pollock. His experience has led to numerous peri-operative surgical medication selections in surgical environments, leading to optimal patient outcomes in circumcisions and frenulectomy.
He is also the inaugural chief pharmacist and director of Melbourne Tongue Tie and Lip Tie Clinic - where infant surgical procedures are performed by AHPRA-registered medical practitioners using high-quality Tungsten Carbide surgical equipment for optimal outcomes.
Zachary now performs lifestyle medicine consults in his rooms at Berwick and Cranbourne and conducts home visits for medication reviews. He supports peri-operative medication selection and supports a patient's journey till complete recovery.
Zachary is originally from Singapore and has a love/hate relationship with Australia's weather. You can find him in thermal wear all year round during his home visits.
Medication Reviews: 3pm - 10pm
Clinical Pharmacist
WEN JEAN (Jean) LOO
BPharm | MClinPharm | AACPA | MPS
Wen Jean (Jean) is a Melbourne-trained, registered, accredited and credentialed pharmacist. She completed her pharmacy training at Monash University.
She completed her initial specialised training at Peninsula Private Hospital under the tutelage of senior oncology pharmacist Charmane Ow. She now has moved to Monash Health Public Hospital working as a ward pharmacist in General Medicine.
After learning from top pharmacists in private and public hospitals, Jean joined dose·check as an associate pharmacist in delivering home medicines reviews within one (1) day of GP referral.
Jean is passionate about lifelong learning and has recently completed her Master of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of Queensland.
Originally from Malaysia, she calls Australia and Malaysia home.
She speaks English, Mandarin, Cantonese and Bahasa Melayu and offers migrant populations access to these Australian government health services.
Medication Reviews: 6pm - 10pm
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