Nancy Waite

Nancy Waite
Professor, Associate Director
Location: PHR 6009
Phone: 519-888-4485

Biography

Dr. Waite’s research program examines medication/vaccine management and pharmacy practice with a focus on innovation in an evolving health-care landscape. Her research focuses on the impact pharmacists and pharmacy technicians have on improving vaccine uptake, addressing vaccine hesitancy and vaccine monitoring. This includes ensuring that marginalized and underserved communities have access to vaccination and pharmacy services. She also examines the impact of other pharmacist scope of practice changes, pharmacy curricular renewal, including novel experiential education models, and technology implementation.

She is co-founder of the Ontario Pharmacy Evidence Network (OPEN), a platform for medication management and health system research across several institutions, with over 50 researchers and strong collaborations with government, payer, and healthcare professional organization knowledge users.

Research Interests

  • Vaccine uptake, vaccine hesitancy, vaccine monitoring, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians as immunizers
  • Access to pharmacist services by marginalized and underserved communities
  • Impact of changes to pharmacists’ scope of practice
  • Measurement of curricular change, particularly for novel experiential education models
  • Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice
  • Clinical Pharmacology

Scholarly Research

The impact of novel pharmacist interventions and pharmacist scope of practice changes on medication management and health outcomes with a focus on the role of pharmacy staff as immunizers. The development and assessment of curricula to produce pharmacists prepared to provide medication management in an evolving healthcare landscape

Education

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship (Wayne State University)
  • PharmD (Wayne State University)
  • BScPhm (University of Toronto)

Awards

  • 2023, Outstanding Author for the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, chosen by the Editor-in-Chief
  • 2022-23, Everyday Hero Award, Minister’s Award of Excellence from the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities
  • 2021, APOthecary Heroes Award, Apotex. Awarded for going above and beyond in patient care by supporting vaccine delivery for Ontarians.
  • 2019 Canadian Pharmacist’s Journal Best Paper Award, awarded for “Pharmacy in the 21st century: Enhancing the impact of the profession of pharmacy on people’s lives in the context of health care trends, evidence and policies”
  • 2016 Best Paper award from the Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy Journal for “Confronting inequities: A scoping review of the literature on pharmacist practice and health-related disparities”
  • 2015 Best Pharmacy Practice Research, oral presentation, Canadian Pharmacists Conference
  • 2015 Journal Award for Best Paper from the Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education for manuscript ““I gained a skill and a change in attitude”: A case study describing how an online continuing professional education course for pharmacists supported achievement of its transfer-to-practice outcomes.”
  • 2014 Best Pharmacy Practice Research, oral presentation, Canadian Pharmacists Conference
  • 2012 Award for Program Excellence, Canadian Association from University Continuing Education (CAUCE)
  • 2011 Association of Faculties of Pharmacy in Canada, Bristol-Meyers Squibb Pharmacy Educator Award

Service

  • As one of the first faculty members appointed to the School of Pharmacy, Dr. Waite has been central in its development and expansion. She led the development, design, and delivery of the wholly new BScPhm (co-op) program, and subsequently the PharmD and Bridging PharmD programs that are recognized nationally and internationally for their innovation and quality.
  • Dr. Waite has participated as chair and member of committees and boards of local, provincial, national, and international pharmacy organizations. Most recently she helped lead the pharmacy portion of the Health Science Campus COVID vaccine clinic and the Bingemans’ weekend clinic – over 70,000 doses given and still counting! She was also co-Chair of the 2020 University of Waterloo’s President’s Think Tank.

Teaching*

  • PHARM 120 - Pharmacy in an Evolving Healthcare System
    • Taught in 2019, 2023

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

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