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.
David Edwards, a professor in the University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy, was one of the new 2022 Fellows elected to the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
Award winners. Top row, left to right: Ashley Cid, Sarah Moroz, Cynthia Richard, Robin Andrade, Ai-Leng Foong-Reichert. Bottom row, left to right: Collin Shiha, David Edwards, Kelly Grindrod.
Since 2013 the School of Pharmacy has recognized the excellence of our graduate students with an annual celebration event. This year was the first in person award ceremony in two years. Graduate Chair J.M. Gamble hosted the event, acknowledging the winners and celebrating other successes of the graduate program.
Dr. Mira Maximos (BHSc, BScPhm, PharmD, MSc, ACPR, PhD student) is a mom, pharmacist, and researcher. She is an inpatient and antimicrobial stewardship pharmacist specializing in infectious diseases and a PhD student studying infectious disease pharmacoepidemiology
Dr. Alina Rashid (HBSc, BScPhm, PharmD, ACPR, RPh) is the Lead Oncology Pharmacist at William Osler Health System. She is also the mother of two children.
“Lots of students in pharmacy school knew what they wanted to do after they graduated,” says Alina. “I had no idea – but I was fortunate enough to get a residency at Hamilton Health Sciences which allowed me to explore various hospital specialities.”