Jan Willem
Foppe van Mil, was born on July 16th 1950 and raised in
Waalwijk, The Netherlands. After the Dutch highschool/college
(HBS-B) he studied Pharmacy in Utrecht, finishing in December
1977. While in the university, he was treasurer for several
student organisations. He participated in a IPSF student
exchange program, living in Canada for a six month period. He
also lived in Israel for 3 months on a student exchange
basis.
As a student he travelled to other European countries like
Denmark, France, Germany and the United Kingdom. While on the
board of the Dutch Association of Pharmacy-students (ANPSV)
he helped to develop a European curriculum. During his last
four years at the university, he taught drug-identification
to undergraduates.
Foppe van Mil speaks and writes Dutch, English, German and
French.
After Foppe
van Mil completed his studies, he became community-pharmacist
in the pharmacy of a community health-centre in Lewenborg,
Groningen in January 1978.
In 1981 he took over the management of the pharmacy in the
village of Zuidlaren, the Zuidlaarder Apotheek. He bought
that pharmacy in 1982. By 2000 the pharmacy had 18 employees
including two other pharmacists. Under his management the
pharmacy received a quality certificate in April 2001. He
sold the pharmacy by the end of 2000, and worked 2 days per
week as pharmacist in the same pharmacy till 1st January 2006
(now Kring-Apotheek Zuidlaren).
From June 1st 2006 - 31 October 2006 he worked as one of the
managing pharmacists at Apotheek it Krúswâld in
Buitenpost, the Netherlands.
From June-October 2007 he worked as managing pharmacist in
Kring-apotheek Zuidhorn, the Netherlands.
In January-March 2008 he worked as managing pharmacist in
Escura Apotheek de Schrans in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands.
And in May he worked briefly in Apotheek Kouwenhoven in the
same city.
In between June 2008 and November 2008 he worked as managing
pharmacist in Escura Apotheek A-straat in Goningen and Escura
Apotheek Zultherveld in Roden.
Between november 2008 and May 2009 he worked as pharmacist in
Kring-apotheek Zuidhorn.
Between October and December 2009, he worked as managing
pharmacist in Kring-apotheek aan de Markt in Ter Apel.
From February till June 2010 he worked again as managing
pharmacist in Escura Apotheek de Schrans in
Leeuwarden.
After the
completion of his university studies, Foppe van Mil returned
to the alma mater in 1993 and worked several months for The
Noordelijk Centrum voor Gezondheidswetenschappen (NCG) of the
University of Groningen, a WHO collaborative centre. He
finalised a study into the quality of the information
provided with exported Dutch drugs to developing countries,
which resulted in the report ‘Dutch Drugs in developing
countries’.
From June 1993 till July 1998 he worked (part-time) for the
working group Social Pharmacy of the University Centre of
Pharmacy in Groningen on the concept of Pharmaceutical Care.
The work resulted in a PhD-thesis under supervision of Prof.
Th.F.J. Tromp, Prof. Dr. L.T.W. de Jong van den Berg and
Prof. J. McElnay, which was successfully defended on 28th of
January 2000. During this phase of his university career,
Foppe van Mil still worked in his pharmacy.
Since 1996 he (co-)organised a number of national Symposia on
Pharmaceutical Care in the Netherlands. He taught and teaches
in several continuing education programs for FIP, KNMP, Astra
and Postgrade/Glaxo Wellcome. Over the last years Foppe van
Mil has been invited to many national and international
conferences as a speaker or workshop-leader on subjects
related to the concept and implementation of pharmaceutical
care, pharmacy practice research, social pharmacy,
international pharmacy and the role of pharmacists in the
combat against AIDS. A list of his presentations can be found
in the List of
Publications.
In June 2000 he accepted the position as a supervisor of the
Masters Project of a Portuguese student. This project was
concluded in July 2002 with the thesis ‘Patient
perceived care needs, an input to the design of
pharmaceutical care programs’. During the viva she
received the qualification ‘Very Good’.
In 2001 he was deemed suitable as an Associate Professor in
Pharmacy Practice at the University of Tromsø, Norway,
and was offered a full-time position. This did not lead to an
appointment because he only wanted to work part-time in
Tromsø.
Untill December 2008 he was also partially affiliated to the
Quality Institute for Pharmaceutical Care in Kampen, the
Netherlands as researcher and
consultant.
* May 31st-june 3rd 1994.
Quality of Life Research Course, Bergen, Norway. Prof. Ingela
Wicklund and Prof. Carol Burckhardt
* October 8th 1996. Day of Excellence on Quality of
Life, ESCP, Lisbon, Portugal. Dr. Sam Salek
* October 1997. Day of excellence on Pharmacoeconomics,
ESCP, Tours, France. Dr. Hugo Robays
* November 2001 and October 2004. ESCP Masterclass (as
Tutor) on Drug Use Evaluation in Pharmaceutical Care.
(Antwerp, Belgium and Prague, Czech Republic).
* 21-25 November 2005: Organiser and tutor (on behalf of
FIP) for a course on Good Pharmacy Practice in Montevideo,
Uruguay.
* 21st April 2006. Workshop Entreze Life Sciences
databases, Hands on training by Dr. David Herron. During 1st
European Conference on Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine
and Medicine.
From 1979 till 1984 he was
member of the Commissie voor Collectieve Voorlichting (CCV)
of the KNMP. This committee created the first public relation
initiative of KNMP and Dutch pharmacists;
In 1987 he was member of the Congrescommissie, a
committee that organised the yearly three-day convention for
all Dutch pharmacists;
From 1987-1989 he also was mentor for the inter professional
quality assessment of colleagues;
In 1988, with F.J. Venema he co-authored a book on drug-use
for laymen entitled 'Slikwijzer'. The book was
published in co-operation with KNMP;
From 1990-1995 he was member of the pharmacotherapeutic
committee of the KNMP. In this committee several aspects of
the rational use of pharmaceuticals were discussed. The
committee also gave some guidance to the KNMP-Drug
Information Centre and assessed the contents of the
Informatorium;
Since October 1994 he was chairman of the Pharmaceutical Care
on AIDS working group, supported by KNMP and Dutch
AIDS-foundation. The project finished in July 1997 with the
publication of the book ‘Pharmacists and Aids, an
unknown territory;
Between 1998 and 2002 he was a member of the steering
committee on pharmaceutical care for WINAp, a division of
KNMP. The steering committee advised the WINAp on
pharmaceutical care activities and co-ordinated the
activities of the Special Interest Groups on pharmaceutical
care and advises the board of WINAp;
Between 1998 and 2003 he was on the organising committee of
the annual WINAp symposia on Pharmaceutical care (FPZ);
From September 2000 till December 2004 he
was Chairman of the SIG Pharmaceutical Care & Pharmacy
Practice Research for the Pharmaceutisch Weekblad, the Dutch
pharmaceutical journal that appears
weekly.
In 1985 he
founded Pharma Selecta, an independent and critical journal
for Dutch community and hospital pharmacists in The
Netherlands, currently read by 3700. Pharma Selecta is an
associate member of the International Society of Drug
Bulletins (ISDB). He was editor-in- chief of the bulletin
till 1994;
From 1985 to 2011 he was the Chairman of the Pharma Selecta
Foundation;
In 1988, he started a database under Pharma Selecta, called
PS-On Line in 1990. Currently it contains approx. 4000
excerpts from pharmacotherapeutic articles that the Dutch
pharmacist can easily access and now is marketed as PS-on
disk, for use in MS-Dos and Window computers;
In 1990 and 1995 he co-developed and co-organised a
postgraduate pharmacotherapeutic training seminar for Dutch
retail-pharmacists, the 'Doedagen', attended by over
200 participants also for Pharma Selecta;
He also was the Chairman of the Organising Committee and
Chairman of the Pharma Selecta Conference on drug development
17th January 2003 and chairman and organiser of the Pharma
Selecta Symposium, held 28th October 2005 on
pharmacogenetics.
Currently he is also involved in writing abstracts for PS-on
disk and the management of the address database for the
bulletin.
* From
October 1994 till October 1996: Member of the board of the
Special Interest Group for Drug Information (now medicine
information) of the European Society for Clinical Pharmacy
and since October 1996 the Chairman of this SIG till
2000;
* From May 1995- September 1998: Chairman of the
Organisation Committee and chairman of the ESCP-Drug
Information Conference in Amsterdam, held in May 1997;
* Between 1998 and 2003 moderator of the Mailing list
for the SIG Medicine information of ESCP;
* Chairman and tutor of the Mini Symposium of the ESCP
SIG Drug information in Orlando, Florida, USA held at 11th
April 1999 during the International Congress on Clinical
Pharmacy ‘Documenting the value of Clinical Pharmacy
Services’;
* Financial Auditor for the European Society for
Clinical Pharmacy Since 2002;
* Member of the RESC from October 2005 till October 2011.
* Member of the ESCP- Publication committee (now
Communication Committee) since October 2003 and chairman from
October 2005 - October 2011, and as suchh coordinating the
abstract review process for the conferences.
* Member of the Organisation committee for the ESCP
annual conference in Amsterdam, October 2005.
* Member of the scientific committee of the 2008 ESCP
conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
* Member of the scientific committee of the 2009 ACCP-ESCP
conference, in Orlando, USA.
* Member of the scientific committee for the 2009 ESCP-GSASA
conference in Geneva, Switzerland.
* Member of the scientific committee of the 2011 ESCP
conference in Dublin, Ireland.
Pharmaceutical Care Network Europe
PCNE is an international research network in the field of
pharmaceutical care of which Dr. van Mil is a founding
member.
* From
August 1996 till August 1999: Chairman of the Pharmaceutical
Care Network Europe (PCNE Association). From August
2003-September 2005 secretary of the same network.
* Board member of the PCNE between 2005 and 2009
* Chairman of the organising committee of the
International Working Conference on Outcome Measurements in
Pharmaceutical Care, held January 26-29, 1999 in
Hillerød, Denmark;
* Member of the organising committee and workshop leader
of the 4th PCNE International Working Conference held
February 16-19, 2005 in Hillerød, Denmark;
* Professional Secretary of PCNE since September
2005.
* Member of the organising committee of the 5th Working
Conference in Gothenburg, 2007, Sweden.
* Member of the organising committee of the 6th Working
Conference in Vimeiro, 2009, Portugal.
* Organiser & workshop facilitator of the Symposia on
Drug-related problems and Medication Review, 2-3 November
2009, Geneva, Switzerland.
* Co-organiser for the 2nd Medication Review
Symposium in Dublin, Ireland, 18 October
2011.
Other (professional)
activities
* Served from 1978 till 1992 on the board of
several regional organisations of community pharmacists such
as GAV and 'Departement Groningen van de KNMP';
* Participated the founding of the
'Geneesmiddelenwinkel' (1981) of the University of
Groningen and a community health-centre in Beijum, Groningen
(1981);
* Organised and guided excursions in 1979 and 1982 for
Dutch community pharmacists to Sweden and the United Kingdom
studying local pharmacy practice;
* Taught pharmacotherapy and prescribing to GP's at
the University of Groningen between 1986 and 1995;
* Examined post-graduate community pharmacy
students between 1985 and 2000 for their Pharm D;
* September 1994-2004: Member of the Committee for
continuing education of the section Community Pharmacy of the
International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP);
* 1995-2003 member of the Working Group for AIDS and
Drug Addiction of the International Pharmaceutical Federation
(FIP);
* In 1996 he co-authored the book ‘het
Geneesmiddel’ on social pharmacy in the Netherlands for
three editions. The second edition was published in 1999 and
third amended edition has appeared in 2002;
* From July 1996 till February 1999 member of the
Editorial Board of Pharmacy World and Science;
* Member of the Scientific Committee of the journal
Pharmaceutical Care España since
1999 until end of 2003.
* Editor-in-Chief of the International Pharmaceutical
Journal since 1st January 2000 till 2005;
* Editor-in-Chief of Pharmacy, World & Science since
1st August 2000;
* Temporary Task Force Manager of The HIV/AIDS Task
Force of Europharm Forum from 1st September 2000 till 1st
February 2001;
* Co-author of the book 'Farmaceutische
Patiëntenzorg' [Pharmaceutical Care], 1st edition
published in October 2005.
* Taught Good Pharmacy Practice and Pharmaceutical care,
in cooperation with FIP, in Uruguay during a one-week course
in November 2005.
* Taught Good Pharmacy Practice and Pharmaceutical care
in Perú during a one-week Conference in November
2006.
* Teaches medication Review for the Dutch DGV (now IVM) since
2007.
* In 2010 he designed materials for continuing education for
pharmacists internationally, and also redesigned a course on
medication review for Dutch physicians and community
pharmacists.
Awards
In October 1993 Foppe van
Mil received the 'Innovation Award' of the K.N.M.P.,
for his innovative work in Dutch pharmacy.
In March 1995 he received the 'Opwierda prijs' as
co-author of an article on pharmaceutical care and asthma
from the Pharmaceutisch Weekblad.
In October 1999 he received the official Award of the
Gipuzkoa Pharmacist Association (in Spain) for his work in
promoting pharmaceutical care in Europe.
In November 2006 he received a medal as 'Professor
Teacher & Investigator' from the Jorge Basadre
Grohman National University in Tacna, Peru as recognition for
his teaching and research
activities.