A love of hospital pharmacy and working with sick children is still being put to good use for Caroline De Luca, but in a different way at PHARMAC. Caroline is one of PHARMACs’ therapeutic group managers, or TGMs, who manage medicine funding applications. The role is demanding and complex, combining a detailed knowledge of pharmaceuticals and clinical information and working with pharmaceutical companies to reach national agreements. A Hamilton native, Caroline decided early on that hospital pharmacy was for her, eventually specialising in paediatrics at Auckland’s Starship Children’s hospital. Along the way she had a stint in London’s Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, and also found the time to become a qualified winemaker after study the art of winemaking – oenology – through Napier’s EIT.

A love of hospital pharmacy and working with sick children is still being put to good use for Caroline De Luca, but in a different way at PHARMAC. Caroline is one of PHARMACs’ therapeutic group managers, or TGMs, who manage medicine funding applications. The role is demanding and complex, combining a detailed knowledge of pharmaceuticals and clinical information and working with pharmaceutical companies to reach national agreements. A Hamilton native, Caroline decided early on that hospital pharmacy was for her, eventually specialising in paediatrics at Auckland’s Starship Children’s hospital. Along the way she had a stint in London’s Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, and also found the time to become a qualified winemaker after study the art of winemaking – oenology – through Napier’s EIT.