Unity in Diversity and the Standardisation of Clinical Pharmacy Services: Proceedings of the 17th Asian Conference on Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP 2017), July 28-30, 2017, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Unity in Diversity and the Standardisation of Clinical Pharmacy Services represents the proceedings of the 17th Asian Conference on Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP 2017), held 28―30 July 2017 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The primary aim of ACCP 2017 was to bring together experts from all fields of clinical pharmacy to facilitate the discussion and exchange of research ideas and results. The conference provided a forum for the dissemination of knowledge and exchange of experiences. As such, it brought together clinical pharmacy scholars, pharmacy practitioners, policy makers and stakeholders from all areas of pharmacy society and all regions of the world to share their research, knowledge, experiences, concepts, examples of good practice, and critical analysis with their international peers. This year also marks the celebration of 20 years of ACCP.

Central themes of the conference and contributed papers were Clinical Pharmacy, Social and Administrative Pharmacy, Pharmacy Education, Pharmacoeconomics, Pharmacoepidemiology, Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and a number of related topics in the field of Pharmacy.

Elida Zairina is Lecturer at the Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia

Junaidi Khotib is Lecturer at the Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia

Chrismawan Ardianto is Lecturer at the Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia

Syed Azhar Syed Sulaiman is Professor at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia

Charles D. Sands III was Dean and Professor at the Mc Whorter School of Pharmacy, College of Health Schiences, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

Timothy E. Welty is Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Chair of the Department of Clinical Sciences at the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at Drake University, Iowa, USA.