MedMe Health co-founders Purya Sarmadi, Rui Su and Nicholas Hui
Rui Su is used to rejection. The Rx2018 pharmacy grad has worn many hats over the years, but the one that suits her best is trailblazer. Su is an entrepreneur committed to improving Canada’s health-care system. On this journey, she’s learned that rejection is part of the process.
Researchers at the University of Waterloo are developing a new method to decrease the likelihood of contracting HIV.
Professor Emmanuel Ho of the School of Pharmacy has developed a gel that contains nanoparticles that can be applied directly to the vaginal tract, where HIV is contracted in women.
Senior pharmacy students are supporting Ontario’s health-care system in the fight against COVID-19. These students are completing their rotations, a requirement for senior pharmacy students where they are placed in health-care sites across the province for six months.
Here are some of their stories:
Meghan Coon in Kingston-Belleville region
“My block 3 rotation has taken place at Bayridge Shopper’s Drug Mart, a high-volume pharmacy in Kingston, where my preceptor is Kaitlyn McCullough (a Waterloo Pharmacy alumni) and the associate is Scott Ford.”
Six professors at the School of Pharmacy recently received funding through the Dean’s Undergraduate Teaching Initiative (DUTI) to introduce educational innovations into their courses. Though the transition to online learning necessitated by COVID-19 disrupted some of these plans, instructors at the School have quickly adapted their activities to an online environment.
Pauline Bal (Rx2019) didn’t plan to start her new job at Credit Valley Hospital in the middle of COVID-19. But when she showed up for her first day at the hospital, one of the three main Trillium Health Partners sites in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), it was mid-April and COVID-19 was in full swing.
Pauline was assigned to the COVID-designated medicine and surgical floor, an area created in the hospital specifically for COVID-positive patients so that they wouldn’t come into contact with others in the hospital.
Prof. Wasem Alsabbagh working from home
Six professors at the School of Pharmacy recently received funding through the Dean’s Undergraduate Teaching Initiative (DUTI) to introduce educational innovations in their courses. Though the transition to online learning necessitated by COVID-19 disrupted some of these plans, instructors at the School have quickly adapted their activities to an online environment.
Fatimah Jaffer (Rx2015) vividly remembers a conversation with coworkers back in February. They were discussing one of the first COVID-19 patients admitted to the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, North London, England.
Since 2013, Waterloo Pharmacy has recognized the excellence of our Master’s and Doctoral students at our annual Graduate Awards ceremony. Due to COVID-19, these celebrations took place online for the first time.
“The accomplishments of our graduate students are many and varied, and we were excited and proud to gather digitally to extend our congratulations to our award winners, grant recipients and recent graduates,” says David Edwards, Hallman Director.
Here are 2020’s Graduate Award recipients:
Carloyn Lawrence, Rx2020, standing with Steve Bond, preceptor, in a pharmacy
Abhay Patel employs Waterloo Pharmacy alumni and students at his five stores in Waterloo Region
Abhay Patel’s road to community pharmacy practice was decidedly unconventional.