Congratulations to Rx2014 student, Danielle Paes who received the Commitment to Care & Service Award for Student Leadership at the annual awards gala held in Toronto on November 25, 2013.
Danielle was recognized as a dynamic young leader who contributes her time, energy and enthusiasm whenever she can. Philip Emberley of the Canadian Pharmacists Association predicts Danielle will be a "change agent within the profession."
Hallman Director, David Edwards who joined Danielle and other Waterloo students at the event, comments:
The School of Pharmacy congratulates Danielle on receiving this honour. We pride ourselves on admitting students with leadership qualities to our program and Danielle is a great example of this. She is a very deserving winner who has been a student leader locally, provincially and nationally. The future of the pharmacy profession in Canada looks bright with students like Danielle Paes.
The CCSA press release from November 26, 2013
Waterloo, ON (November 26th, 2013)—Danielle Paes wants you to call the pharmacist, and the fourth-year Waterloo student is willing to go to any lengths to convince you—including posting a video spoof of Carly Rae Jepson’s popular song “Call Me Maybe.”
The slightly off-key but totally on-target YouTube video—which has close to 22,000 views—is just one reason Danielle received the Student Leadership award at this year’s Commitment to Care & Service Awards, the national awards program hosted by Pharmacy Practice and Drugstore Canada, Canada’s leading pharmacy magazines. The Commitment to Care & Service Awards Gala took place on the evening of November 25th, 2013, at the Ritz-Carlton in Toronto.
Danielle believes pharmacists have all the right stuff—integrity, compassion, honour and knowledge—but they’re a humble group whose true value hasn’t been fully recognized by society. “It is my mission to change this,” she says.
Political involvement has been an effective tool, but Danielle isn’t content to simply belong to a long list of professional associations (six at last count). Instead, from her first year in the program, she was active in the Canadian Association of Pharmacy Students and Interns (CAPSI) and helped coordinate the Ontario Pharmacy Students Integrative Summit. In 2012 she was vice president of the University of Waterloo Society of Pharmacy Students, welcomed new pharmacy students as orientation committee chair and edited the school yearbook. This past year she sat on the pharmacy admissions interview panel at the university, was her student council’s member rep for the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists and was elected to the CAPSI executive, where she is editor of the national newsletter. She takes her love of learning on the road, regularly attending national conferences and local interdisciplinary events. And in her spare time she volunteers with Community Action Now, helping with the soup kitchen and food drives.
Danielle’s numerous letters of support speak of a dynamic young leader who contributes her time, energy and enthusiasm whenever she can. Philip Emberley of the Canadian Pharmacists Association commends her “strategic orientation,” “keen intellect” and ability to work collaboratively. He predicts she will be a “change agent within the profession.” Dean Miller, former chair of the Ontario Pharmacists’ Association, is another fan. He says, “Danielle epitomizes the pharmacy ‘personality’ required to drive our profession through this intense period of change and into the future.”
The Commitment to Care & Service Awards honours community and hospital pharmacists, pharmacy owners and managers, pharmacy technicians and pharmacy students for their innovative contributions to pharmacy practice. Awards are presented in nine categories: Advanced Learning, Charitable Work; Collaborative Team Initiative; Green Leadership; Health Promotion; Integrated Pharmacy Program; Outstanding Pharmacy Owner or Manager; Overall Patient Care; Pharmacy Technician Initiatives; and Student Leadership.
The Commitment to Care & Service Award for Student Leadership is sponsored by the Ontario Pharmacists’ Association and Loblaw.
Other sponsors include Boehringer Ingelheim, CACDS (Canadian Association of Chain Drug Stores), CAPT (Canadian Association of Pharmacy Technicians), GenMed, GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare, GlaxoSmithKline Pharma, Purdue, Takeda, and Teva.
For more information about Danielle Paes and the Commitment to Care & Service Awards, please contact Emily Dragoman at 416-764-3944 or Emily.Dragoman@rci.rogers.com.