On June 29, 2026, Waterloo Pharmacy celebrated its newly graduated PhD and MSc graduate students and graduate student award winners.
The School has recognized the excellence and achievements of our graduate students annually since 2013. Our graduate students have a positive impact on clinical pharmacy, pharmacy practice, pharmaceutical sciences, pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacoeconomics.
This year's award winners include:
- Highest Final Grade in PHARM610: Topics in Drug Development – Adrianna Dingle, MSc
- Best Student Presentation in the Pharmacy Research Seminar Series – Sam Hirniak, PhD
- Best Mentor as a Graduate Student Teaching Assistant – Henry Abanum, MSc
- Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award – Emmanuel Ho
- Donald J. and Kathleen McDougall Scholarship – Lexi Bastone, MSc student
- Janet EA McDougall Graduate Scholarship in Pharmacy, PhD student – Joey Champigny
- Janet EA McDougall Graduate Scholarship in Pharmacy, PhD student – Qi Sun
The Spring 2026 convocation took place earlier in June where we had several students graduate:
- Mohamed Aborig, PhD
- Hibah Alattas, PhD
- Razan Amoud, PhD
- Antoine Hakim, PhD
- Sam Hirniak, PhD
- Mira Maximos, PhD
- Jesse St Jean, PhD
- Ali Syed, PhD
- Anna Ffrench, MSc
- Karyman Ahmed Fawzy Ghanem, MSc
- Mehraveh Hosseinali, MSc
- Kaidy Orellana, MSc
- Shubham Devesh Ramgoolam, MSc
We further acknowledge those who graduated during the Fall 2025 convocation ceremony:
- Rahul Karuturi, PhD
- Jin Wang, PhD
- Vanessa Koo, MSc
- Rozhannaa Sothilingam, MSc
- Jiahao Zhao, MSc
Two students received dissertation awards in 2025:
- Dean of Science Award – Mehraveh Hosseinali, MSc
- W.B. Pearson Medal – Antoine Hakim, PhD
Join us in congratulating all of our recent graduate students and award winners!