The University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy hosted the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists- Ontario Branch (CSHP-OB) West Chapter residency research night for the third year.
Angad Bains’s (Rx2023) curiosity about the pharmaceutical industry was sparked during his first year at the University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy.
In Northern Canada, where temperatures drop to -50 degrees Celsius during the winter with four hours of sunshine per day, healthcare looks a lot different. Jenna Jenkins (PharmD’19) and Christopher Voss (PharmD’19) share their experience from Qikiqtaaluk (Baffin Island) Region in Nunavut.
Jaskaran Singh Attwal (he/him) is a fourth-year Waterloo Pharmacy student. From Cambridge Memorial Hospital to Shoppers Drug Mart central office Jaskaran shares his experience working in various healthcare fields and maintaining a work-life balance as a young professional.
Waterloo PhD candidate, Mira Maximos, investigates sex, gender and the regulation of prescription drugs
On June 20, 2024, Waterloo Pharmacy celebrated its newly graduated MSc and PhD graduate students and Graduate Student Award winners.
Andy Kwok (Rx2022) was inspired to pursue a hospital pharmacy career after experiencing different pharmacy careers during his co-op work terms. Working in a hospital environment, a family health team and a community pharmacy empowered him to choose what he felt most drawn to.
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) announced funding for the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023-2024. Waterloo Pharmacy alum and current postdoctoral fellow at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Dr. Cindy Hoi Ting Yeung (PhD’23, Dr. Andrea Edginton’s Lab) was ranked 13 out of the 182 researchers for her work on Advancing towards model-informed precision dosing: Ontogeny and pharmacogenetics of commonly used drugs in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Nicholas Cheng, Waterloo Pharmacy MSc student didn’t expect his side project, Entomatia, to launch another side project – repurposing the discarded insect shells for consumer detection of lead in water at home.
The 2023 CPJ Best Paper Award went to Waterloo Pharmacy researchers Sherilyn Houle, Wasem Alsabbagh and Nancy Waite who found a solution to assist the public and pharmacists in encouraging vaccination uptake in their study, Herpes zoster and human papillomavirus vaccination opportunities identified using electronic prompts at the time of scheduling influenza or COVID-19 vaccines.