New Gisborne’s Colin Chapman has been appointed as a member of the Order of Australia (AM).
The Monash University emeritus professor was recognised on Monday 26 January as part of the Australia Day Honours List.
Emeritus Professor Chapman received the honour for his service to pharmacy and pharmaceutical science research, education and practice.
In a career spanning more than five decades, he has worked as a pharmacist and veterinary surgeon; was veterinary research officer, immunology and molecular biology section leader, and acting director of the Attwood Veterinary Research Laboratory; and a chairman and former director of the Australian Pharmacy Research Centre.
Emeritus Professor Chapman has also been a member of the Victorian branch of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia since 1987 and was named an honorary fellow in 1998.
He has chaired the society’s Integrating Pharmacists within Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services to improve Chronic Disease Management steering committee since 2018.
He is also a co-founder and accreditation teams leader for the New Zealand, and Australian Pharmacy Schools Accreditation Committee and was an examiner and course director for a fellowship course in veterinary pharmacy at the Australian College of Pharmacy Practice, 1987-2004.
Emeritus Professor Chapman has also served on a number of committees including the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research’s animal ethics committee, Royal Melbourne Hospital campus animal ethics committee and the Therapeutic Goods Committee.
He has been an emeritus professor of pharmacy at Monash University since 2011, was professor of pharmacy at University of New England from 2016-2018, has been adjunct professor at James Cook University since 2006 and a faculty board member and external lecturer at Melbourne university.
Closer to home, Emeritus Professor Chapman was a member of the New Gisborne Primary School council between 1983-1985, serving as president from 1985-1988 and vice president from 1989-1994. The annual Colin Chapman Award was named in his honour in 1994.
He has also been the chairman of the Uniting Church’s Macedon Ranges partnership co-ordinating council since 2016, and president of Heritage Sheep Australia since 2015.
In 2024, Emeritus Professor Chapman was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Victorian branch of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia.
