Nancy Waite named director of Academic Leadership Program
This article originally appeared in the Daily Bulletin.
"I am very pleased to announce that Nancy Waite, Associate Director in the School of Pharmacy, will become the Director of the Academic Leadership Program as of July 1, 2019," wrote Associate Vice-President, Academic Mario Coniglio in a memo circulated to Executive Council on Monday. "The Academic Leadership Program has provided leadership development and support for chairs and directors since 2002 and was expanded to associate chairs and associate directors, and associate deans in 2015."
Professor
Waite
(right)
joined
the
School
of
Pharmacy
in
2012
and
led
the
development
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.
She
has
over
25
years
of
Canadian
and
US
experience
providing
academic
leadership
in
a
number
of
institutions
besides
Waterloo,
including
the
Leslie
Dan
Faculty
of
Pharmacy
at
University
of
Toronto,
the
Albany
College
of
Pharmacy
and
Health
Sciences
in
Albany,
New
York,
and
the
Pharmacy
Department
at
St.
Michael’s
Hospital
in
Toronto.
Her
research
interests
are
varied,
with
a
strong
focus
on
medication
management
and
education,
as
well
as
pharmacy
curriculum
development,
including
mixed
method
experiential
education
(co-op,
rotations,
community
service
learning).
As
a
successful
researcher,
Professor
Waite
has
won
over
$10M
in
competitive
grants,
and
is
currently
the
co-lead
of
the
Ontario
Pharmacy
Evidence
Network
(OPEN),
which
is
a
platform
for
medication
management
and
health
system
research
across
five
institutions,
with
over
50
researchers
and
strong
collaborations
with
government,
payer,
and
healthcare
professional
organization
knowledge
users.
"Under Professor Waite’s direction, the Academic Leadership Program will continue to offer quality training and mentoring programs that fit the UWaterloo environment, creating internal succession plan options, and expanding diversity in our leadership," Coniglio writes. "Professor Waite’s vision is to further evolve the program to take a career life-course approach to leadership development - providing leadership training to anyone interested at any stage of their career."
Professor Waite is succeeding the outgoing ALP director, Professor Sheila Ager, who has served in this role since May 2016. During the past three years, Professor Ager ably stewarded the program, making numerous improvements to ensure the program was valuable and relevant to the diversity of academic leaders it was designed for. Workshops and forum lunches spanned topics ranging from policy issues to tenure and promotion to personal survival. During that same time also emerged the first of the program’s triannual newsletters.
"Please join me in welcoming Nancy Waite into her new role, and in thanking Sheila Ager for her three years of leadership of this important program," Coniglio's memo concludes.
For more information about the Academic Leadership Program, please visit https://uwaterloo.ca/academic-leadership-program/.