Dr Panjasaram (Vassie) Naidoo is a senior lecturer in the Discipline of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UKZN. She also lectures primary health care nurses in pharmacology. She currently serves on the South African Pharmacy Council (Statutory Body for pharmacists in SA) and the Scheduling and Naming Committee of the Medicines Control Council of SA. She is a Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society of South Africa (PSSA) and the responsible pharmacist and owner of DKN Pharmacy. She is a member of many professional bodies and organisations such as the International AIDS Society, HIV Clinicians Society, Society of Clinical Pharmacy, Community and Academic sector of the PSSA and the International Federation of Pharmacists ( FIP).