The next generation of the most promising healthcare practitioners has been recognised with Ego Pharmaceuticals’ QV Skincare announcing the winners of the annual QV Healthcare Practitioner Student Scholarship. Yaron Gu, University of NSW, Claudia Tran, University of Sydney (pictured), and Kristin Myall, Australian College of Nursing, have each been awarded $10,000 in prize money following a nationwide campaign that saw strong entries from medicine, pharmacy and nursing students. “We received a range of impressive and considered scholarship entries this year with the entries from Yaron, Claudia and Kristin which were true standouts,” QV Senior Regional Brand Manager Kira Torpy remarked. Launched in 2022, the QV Healthcare Practitioner Student Scholarship aims to help further the education of the next generation of healthcare leaders. QV Skincare, part of the Ego Pharmaceuticals portfolio, has a long and close association with helping people with sensitive skin since the business was first founded following a request from the dermatology ward of Melbourne’s iconic Queen Victoria Hospital. Decades on, the QV brand remains family-owned, Australianmade, and synonymous with quality and innovation. With over 50 QV products sold in more than 20 countries, QV stated it is “proud to be the number one recommended sensitive skincare brand by healthcare practitioners”, a testament, it said, to the trust dermatologists, GPs and pharmacists have in the skincare brand. Further, Ego Pharmaceuticals last week won awards at the CHP Self-Care Excellence Awards for the Innovative Manufacturing Solution Award for QV Refresh Packaging Sustainability Project, the Most Trusted Partner in Pharmacy and the Best Marketing Campaign of a Consumer Healthcare Product – Small Budget for MOOV Head Lice (PD 07 Nov). JG