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Richard Granholm (Rx2023) is not afraid of taking chances. Six years after achieving his Bachelor of Music, while sitting in a pharmacy and watching a pharmacist work, a new dream arose for him – a career in pharmacy. This new journey in pharmacy sparked another passion for Richard, to travel abroad.

This past weekend the University of Waterloo hosted its Fall 2022 Open House. Waterloo Pharmacy was on main campus to connect with and answer questions from prospective students for the PharmD program.

Alex Wong (Rx2020) is part of the team at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, CHEO, a pediatric health-care and research centre in Ottawa, who won the 2022 Excellence in Pharmacy Practice Leadership Award in partnership with Canadian Blood Services. The award is presented from the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists (CSHP) and acknowledges projects that serve a greater cause and contribute to pharmacy care.  

The annual Regional Clinical Coordinator (RCC) Conference was held in-person, for the first time since the pandemic began, at Waterloo Pharmacy on Oct 20-21.

An integral part of the PharmD program at Waterloo Pharmacy are the patient care rotations. Fourth year students complete their rotations in the last six months of the program and are placed directly in patient care clinical placements in one of the 14 regions across Ontario.

On Friday October 21, 2022, Waterloo Pharmacy celebrated the class of 2022 at an in-person convocation reception after the main campus Faulty of Science convocation.

Sukhmani Sethi and Vishal Acharya holding their awards. (Photo credit: Kamaljit Bedi and Madeleine Carrigan)

Waterloo Pharmacy hosted their seventh CE Saturday event on September 24, the annual Alumni Reunion event where graduates reconnected and heard from experts about hot topics in pharmacy.

This year the event was hosted in a hybrid approach to continue to allow alumnus from across Canada to join. The event was further open to not only its alumni and community member audience but also senior pharmacy students.

On September 24th, the Waterloo School of Pharmacy held their second Women in Pharmacy Leadership (WIPL) panel event and networking lunch.

Jocelyn Bonti-Akomah, a second-year pharmacy student is the first recipient of the Rexall Pharmacy Group ULC Community Involvement Award. This new award recognizes Black or Indigenous undergraduate students with a strong history of volunteering in their community who demonstrate the values of integrity, customer service, accountability, respect and excellence.

On Friday, September 23, Waterloo Pharmacy welcomed back its students with a BBQ to kick off the start of a new school year. For the first time since covid, more than 300 students, staff and faculty joined together for an outdoor lunch. Members of the school’s community gathered to enjoy food, play games, take pictures, and reconnect with classmates here at the School of Pharmacy in downtown Kitchener.