Ryan Tennant is interested in bridging health care and engineering. From co-op terms and research projects at Sunnybrook and Sick Kids hospitals to developing a medical device at a company in Switzerland, he’s always looking to use his biomedical engineering education to improve the world around him.
The following announcement is provided by the Canadian Association of Pharmacy in Oncology.
“I saw my own family struggling to book vaccine appointments, and that got me thinking about how many others in the region must be experiencing the same challenges,” says Lilian Toma.
The Rexall Pharmacy Group Community Involvement Award was established to support Black and Indigenous students who demonstrate a strong commitment to their communities. Jocelyn Bonti-Ankomah is the first recipient of it.
A new study looking at national opioid mortality, hospitalization and emergency department visits in Canada has found a nearly six-fold increase in opioid-related deaths between 2000 and 2017.
Top row, left to right: Lilian Toma, Chuying Feng, Yannick Traore. Bottom row, left to right: Jiahao Huang, Sam Dubinsky and J.M. Gamble
Despite groups designated as visible minorities being at an increased risk of infection and mortality from COVID-19, higher vaccine hesitancy persists among Black Canadians when compared to the general public.
Some of the reasons put forward by members of the Black community as to why they’re hesitant to be vaccinated are lack of confidence in the safety of the vaccine and concerns about its risks and side effects.
Technology plays many roles in health-care delivery. Through the co-op program, Waterloo Pharmacy students explore these roles.
At tomorrow’s virtual ceremony, Waterloo Pharmacy will welcome new alumni from the PhD and MSc graduate programs and the PharmD bridging program.
In early June, the Ontario Pharmacists Association (OPA) held their annual conference which included an award ceremony. Three winners were associated with Waterloo Pharmacy.