On June 26, 2025, 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:
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Highest Final Grade in PHARM610: Topics in Drug Development – Cherry Chan, MSc student
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Best Student Presentation in the Pharmacy Research Seminar Series – Rahul Chowdary Karuturi, PhD candidate
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Best Mentor as a Graduate Student Teaching Assistant – Mathew DeMarco, PhD candidate
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Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award – Emmanuel Ho
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Donald J. and Kathleen McDougall Scholarship – Kaidy Orellana, MSc student
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Janet EA McDougall Graduate Scholarship in Pharmacy, MSc student – Henry Abanum
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Janet EA McDougall Graduate Scholarship in Pharmacy, PhD student – Antoine Hakim
The Spring 2025 convocation took place in June where we had several students graduate:
- Ahmed Abdallah, PhD
- Jin Wang, PhD
- Jiayang Li, MSc
- Rozhannaa Sothilingam, MSc
- Vanessa Koo, MSc
We further acknowledge those who graduated during the Fall 2024 convocation ceremony:
- Samuel Dubinsky, PhD
- Ai-Leng Foong, PhD
- Ryan Nodder, MSc
- Ethan Watt, MSc
Two students received dissertation awards in 2024:
- Dean of Science Award – Emelien Jentz, MSc
- W.B. Pearson Medal – Smanuel Dubinsky, PhD
Join us in congratulating all of our recent graduate students and award winners!