Dr. Tejal Patel is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy, and a practicing clinical pharmacist with the Memory Clinic at the Centre for Family Medicine Family Health Team in Kitchener, Ontario. Dr. Patel obtained her PharmD from the University of Kentucky and completed a Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Neurology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In her position with the School of Pharmacy, Dr. Patel teaches pharmacy students about neurological disorders. Her clinical practice is focused on the pharmacotherapeutic management of neurological disorders such as cognitive disorders, seizures, and Parkinson’s disease. Her research centres on medication use process in the older adult, including the prescribing, dispensing, delivering, administering, and outcomes of medications with a particular focus on the use of potentially inappropriate medications, polypharmacy, capacity to manage medications and adherence.
Dr. Patel’s research can be found here
Dr. Patel’s CV: Tejal Patel WICI.CV Mar2017