Congratulating graduate student award winners and 2023 graduates
On June 22, 2023, Waterloo Pharmacy celebrated its newly graduated MSc and PhD 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 – Vanessa Koo
- Best Student Presentation in the Pharmacy Research Seminar Series – Dr. Jacky Yu, “Pharmacokinetic and economic implications when switching between hemophilia A treatments”
- Best Graduate Student Teaching Assistant – Ali Syed
- Substantial Impact on Overall Research Mission – Razan Amoud
Ali Syed, Emelien Jentz and Rishabh Sharma
We also presented the following awards:
- Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award – Dr. Tejal Patel
- Donald J. and Kathleen McDougall Scholarship – Emelien Jentz
- Janet EA McDougall Graduate Scholarship in Pharmacy, MSc student – Rishabh Sharma
- Janet EA McDougall Graduate Scholarship in Pharmacy, PhD student – Ashley Cid
Dr. Ester Yun, Dr. Andrea Edginton, School of Pharmacy Hallman Director, Dr. Jacky Yu and Dr. Cindy Yeung at Spring 2023 Convocation
Additionally, Spring 2023 convocation took place in June where we had several students graduate.
Graduate students include:
- Andrew Ng, MSc
- Deborah Pushparajah, MSc
- Dr. Esther Yun, PhD
- Dr. Morgan Robinson, PhD
- Dr. Jiahao Huang, PhD
- Dr. Jacky Yu, PhD
- Dr. Wajd Alkabbani, PhD
- Dr. Cindy Yeung, PhD
We further acknowledge those who graduated during the Fall 2022 convocation ceremony:
- Chuying Feng, MSc
- John Kim, MSc
- Maya Petgrave, MSc
Two students received dissertation awards in 2022:
- Dean of Science Award – John Kim, MSc
- W.B. Pearson Medal – Dr. Sadaf Faisal, PhD
Join us in congratulating all of our recent graduate students and award winners!