IDRAC Database: Consultants - South Africa
J & B Pharmaceutical Consultants
PO Box 25395
MONUMENT PARK
0105
South Africa
Tel: 27 (0) 12 347 1392
Fax: 27 (0) 12 347 7687
Contact: Joy van Oudtshoorn – Eckard
E-mail: joyvo@icon.co.za
J & B Pharmaceutical Consultants specialise in human and veterinary pharmaceutical
matters, such as
- Scientific support for patent matters
- Pharmaceutical product development and production trouble shooting
- Bioavailability studies and clinical trials, advice, placement, management
and monitoring
- Regulatory Affairs and related training.
The CEO is Prof Bosch van Oudtshoorn. He studied pharmacy and completed post-graduate
studies at the University of Potchefstroom. He studied for his doctorate at
the Universities in Zurich and Leiden and was appointed as Professor and head
of the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Potchefstroom in 1967.
He was the Executive director of Research and Development of South African
Druggists, for many years and is the author and co-author of more than 100 scientific
publications and two text books, Medicinal Plants of South Africa and Poisonous
Plants of South Africa. He is the holder of several international patents in
the field of medicine and member of various statutory and professional bodies.
Joy van Oudtshoorn-Eckard is Executive Director, Scientific and Medical Affairs.
She is a pharmacist with post-graduate training in industrial pharmacy who has
extensive industry and health authority, regulatory and quality control experience
in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
She participates in many MCC and Industry workshops and represents the PMA
on the Industry Task Group liaison with the Medicines Control Council. As chairman
of the Registration and Bioavailability Specialist Group of the Committee for
Science and Technology of the PMA for many years, together with other members
of her group, met on several occasions with the Pharmaceutical Committee of
the Medicines Control Council, to present and participate in scientific discourse
regarding various regulatory matters. She has organised a number of workshops
and symposia for the industry.
She is the author of the chapter “Registration in South Africa”
in ''International Pharmaceutical Registration'' edited by A Chalmers, designer
and author and also responsible for the "registration and control of pharmaceutical
products" module of the honours BSc Pharmacy degree of Potchefstroom University.
She is a member of Special interest groups of International Federation of Pharmacists
(FIP) and co-author of two of the Herbal Special Interest group publications
and serves on the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, (AAPS)
Globalization Task Force - an initiative to reach out to pharmaceutical scientists.
She headed the Medical Department of Ciba-Geigy, being responsible for regulatory
affairs, clinical research, pharmaceutical product development, medical/marketing
liaison, information services, and drug safety for the speciality, generic,
self-medication and vision care divisions preceding the consulting activities.
She is an honorary lecturer in pharmaceutics at several Universities. She is
also a well known Church Organist.
