Rosemary Beresford ONZM, BPharm, MSc, PhD
Rosemary Beresford began her career as a High School teacher, subsequently
joining what is now the School of Pharmacy at Otago in 1982. She served as
convenor of the University’s distance learning programme. Associate Dean
of GraduateStudies in Health Sciences, and finally AssociateDean of phar-
macy admissions and undergraduate programmes before retiring in 2008.
Dr Beresford’s many academic and other contributions to the pharmacy
profession in New Zealand were recognised by her appointment as an
honorary member of the Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand in 2004
and acceptance into the International Academy of History of Pharmacy in
- She was created an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit ‘for
services to medicine’, in 2007. Dr Beresford currently holds honorary
appointments as Associate Professor at the Universities of Hong Kong and
Auckland.
Tony Booker MRSC, MRCHM, MBAC
Tony Booker has been practising Chinese medicine since 1994. He works as
a practitioner in several clinics in Kent and maintains his own Chinese
herbal dispensary integrated within an allopathic pharmacy. He has a
particular interest in the treatment of debilitating conditions such as
multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis. He is President of the Register
of Chinese Herbal Medicine and, since 2005, has sat on the Herbal Medicines
Advisory Committee.
Il-Moo Chang BSc, MSc, PhD
Il-Moo Chang is currently Director of the WHO Collaborating Center of
Traditional Medicine, Chairman of the Technical Committee of Quality
Assurance and Information, Forum on Harmonization of Herbal Medicines
(FHH), and Director of the Korean Natural and Traditional Medicines
Research Center. Professor Chang has written more than 120 research
papers, 22 book chapters and monographs, including Treatise on Asian
Herbal Medicines(9 volumes, 8804 pages).