Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine

Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine
AbbreviationFPM
Formation29 October 1989
TypeMembership body
HeadquartersLondon, UK
FieldsPharmaceutical medicine
Membership
Approx 1,600
President
Sheuli Porkess
Chief Executive
Marcia Philbin
Staff16
Award(s)FPM President's Medal, Honorary Fellowship and Membership
Websitewww.fpm.org.uk

The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine (FPM) is a faculty of the three Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom (the Royal College of Physicians London, the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow). It is a UK-based professional membership organisation with 1,600 members; physicians with a professional interest in the speciality of pharmaceutical medicine,[1] the science of discovering, developing and testing new drugs, their regulation, and monitoring them for safety both during development and when they are prescribed.[2][3] FPM is a registered charity and ultimately exists to bring about an improvement in health in patients and the general population.

The president of FPM is Dr Sheuli Porkess.

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  2. ^ Clinical pharmacology and the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine" by P D Stonier and N S Baber, British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 2000 June; 49(6): 523–524. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2125.2000.00202.x. NIH link
  3. ^ J P Griffin , The textbook of pharmaceutical medicine Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.