Events - 2015

Hacking Health is designed to improve healthcare by inviting technology creators and healthcare professionals to collaborate on realistic, human-centric solutions to front-line problems. 

Cafés are informal meetups to discuss and debate digital health in your city, where people and ideas mingle. 

Save the date! Our first Café will be on Thursday October 22nd!

RSVP:  https://www.meetup.com/Hacking-Health-Waterloo/events/224474356/

Please join Dr. Edwards and others as we say good-bye to the Rx2015 class at our annual grad send-off. The event includes:

• Lunch
• Exit Survey
• How to Succeed on PEBC – a special presentation by Scott Campbell Rx2013
• What to expect as a Waterloo Pharmacy Graduate
• Draw prizes & more

The event is generously sponsored by:

Scotiabank and MNP

Identifying consumer pharmacy priorities: an introduction to the nominal group technique

Improving Health Outcomes in Children using e-health and m-health technologies

We are honoured to invite Dr. Jennifer Stinson to speak in the Pharmacy Research Seminar Series. Dr. Stinson is Associate Professor of Nursing at the University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Pain.

Visitors from main campus and those external to Waterloo are welcome.

Please RSVP to sarah.rae@uwaterloo.ca.

Do our genes determine what we should eat?

We are honoured to invite Dr. Ahmed El-Sohemy to speak in the Pharmacy Research Seminar Series. El-Sohemy is Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Nutrigenomics, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto. 

Visitors from main campus and those external to Waterloo are welcome.

Please RSVP to sarah.rae@uwaterloo.ca.

Six graduate students will be displaying their research posters and competing for the research poster prize valued at up to $1,500 for travel, accommodation and expenses at the Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences (CSPS) conference this May:

Nawaz Ahmed

Short-term activation of 5-Hydroxytryptamine type 7 receptor is neuroprotective against NMDA-induced excitotoxicity

Spencer Berg

Can we hold on to our title again this year? Students, faculty and alumni, come out and cheer for the University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy as we face off against the University of Toronto.

Learning to see with a “lazy eye”; harnessing visual cortex plasticity to treat amblyopia

We are honoured to invite Assistant Professor Ben Thompson of the School of Optometry and Vision Science to speak in the Pharmacy Research Seminar Series.

Visitors from main campus and those external to Waterloo are welcome.

Learning to see with a “lazy eye”; harnessing visual cortex plasticity to treat amblyopia

We are honoured to invite Assistant Professor Ben Thompson of the School of Optometry and Vision Science to speak in the Pharmacy Research Seminar Series. 

Visitors from main campus and those external to Waterloo are welcome.

Watch our Events page for updates.

This winter, the Ontario Pharmacists Association (OPA) welcomes pharmacy students to attend two complimentary dinner and learn sessions being hosted on their campus. These sessions are designed to support pharmacy students as well as students in other health disciplines in building awareness and knowledge in addiction and opioid use.

See live demonstrations of Mobile Health apps, meet cool people in tech and healthcare, hang out in the UW School of Pharmacy space. If you're involved in health tech in KW, you don't want to miss this.

Pharmacist prescribing in Alberta

We are honoured to invite Professor Ross Tsuyuki of the University of Alberta's Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry to speak in the Pharmacy Research Seminar Series. Tsuyuki is also the Director of EPICORE Centre.

Visitors from main campus and those external to Waterloo are welcome.

Please RSVP to sarah.rae@uwaterloo.ca.