Pharmacist receives OAM

St Huberts Island resident Ms Patricia Ann Payne has made the Queens Birthday Honours list.

She has been award the medial for the Order of Australia (OAM), for service to pharmacy, and to community, through fundraising for children's medical research.

Ms Payne is currently a pharmacist on the Central Coast and has been a community pharmacy proprietor in Castle Hill, Sydney, for over 20 years and a registered pharmacist since 1961.

Ms Payne has been an Australian nominee for the executive committee in the community pharmacy section of the International Pharmacy Federation and is a current member of the Graduate Review Panel for the Pharmacy Board of New South Wales.

She is also a current member of the Pharmacy Alumni Association, University of Sydney; and the founder and current Chair for Women in Pharmacy.

She is also a member of the National Organising Committee for the Annual Women for Pharmacy Conference.

Ms Payne has been a member of the Biological Safety Committee since 1996, a member of the Beercroft CMRI Committee from 1969 to 1979 and president of the committee from 1972 to 1973.

She has also been a member of the National Organising Committee for the Jeans for Genes appeal since 1994, and a founding member and president of the Hills District CMRI Committee since 1991.

Ms Payne has also been a board member of the Children's Medical Research Institute, since 2000.

She has also been president of several organisations throughout her career including president of Friends of Harrisford, King's School, from1990 to 2000, president of the Women's Auxiliary, Kings School, from 1982 to 1984 and president of the Women's Auxiliary, Tara School for Girls, from 1989 to 1990.

She was the governor of the Kings School Foundation from 1982 to 1984 and a volunteer religious education instructor at West Pennant Hills Public School from1976 to 1999.

Ms Payne said she was still trying to get over the shock.

"I am very honoured, very humbled," Ms Payne said.

She said she had done the work for the great satisfaction it gave.

Lyle Stone, June 7