Prof Day has received many awards, including Member of the Order of Australia AM, 2000 relating mostly to his focus upon QUM. He received the AMA Distinguished Service Award in 2009, became an Inaugural Life Member of the NPS in 2011 and made Fellow of Australasian Society of Clinical & Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists (ASCEPT) in 2022. Prof Day was also the first non-US President of the Drug Information Association (DIA). Further, Prof Day is a practicing Rheumatologist and Clinical Pharmacologist and is an active educator and contributor to national resources such as the Australian Medicines Handbook (he was an inaugural Director) and Therapeutic Guidelines. Prof Day’s involvement with the pharmaceutical enterprise is extensive. He has held several positions including member of Medicines Australia Code of Conduct Committee since 1995; President of the national association of pharmacologists and toxicologists, ASCEPT 1995, Director of Medical Benefits Fund Australia, now BUPA, in 1998-2002, Co-chair of Medication Safety Taskforce for the Australian Safety and Quality Council (2001-3), Chair NPS R&D committee (2008-10), Ministerial Appointee of the Australian Health Informatics Committee 2003-5, Co-chair of National Electronic Medication Management reference group for the National e-Health Transition Authority and currently, Chair of Medication Expert Advisory Committee to the NSW Ministry of Health, Member NSW Early Phase Clinical Trials Committee, Member NSW Chief Scientist’s Cannabis Expert Advisory Committee, Chair NSW Cannabis Prescribers Committee, all for NSW Ministry of Health and Chair Research Advisory Committee of the National Institute of Complementary Medicine (NICM) Research Committee, University of Western Sydney 2014-17. Prof Day’s knowledge of, and connections to, the pharmaceutical industry are enhanced by his role as the senior academic advisor for Australia’s leading post-graduate degree in Drug Development – Masters of Pharmaceutical Medicine program that he cofounded at UNSW in the Faculty of Medicine.