The University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy is delighted to announce a partnership with Apotex that will help shape the future of pharmaceutical research here at Waterloo. Apotex has been involved with the University since it hired its first co-op students in 1984.
On Friday, April 28, Gateway Centre of Excellence in Rural Health (CERH) hosted a meeting to explore and discuss opportunities for connecting various sectors to advance health research in rural southwestern Ontario. At this meeting, Waterloo Pharmacy renewed their Memorandum of Understanding with Gateway
On April 21, researchers from 5 countries will gather at the University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy for a workshop discussing immunizations and the pharmacist’s role in providing vaccines.
Waterloo Pharmacy is pleased to announce the establishment of the Ambulatory Care Residency program.
Alumni Denise Kreutzwiser first shadowed an HIV pharmacist on co-op. Since then, she’s travelled to Zimbabwe, Australia, and throughout Canada working with HIV-infected people.
Anthony Amadio is a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at Kelowna General Hospital in British Columbia where he specializes in critical care, conducts research, and teaches.
As a case manager, Heather works with patients who’ve been in and out of hospital at least three times in a year. Her work is unusual for a pharmacist: typically, case managers are nurses or social workers, but Heather’s prior experience as a hospital pharmacist helps her collaborate with patients and their healthcare team to identify why hospitalizations occur and plan to prevent them.
Greg Becotte is a pharmacist at the Pier Health Resource Center in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES). The DTES is a neighbourhood notorious for high rates of poverty, mental illness, crime, and infectious disease.
On Sunday March 12, the Waterloo Pharmacy hockey team and loyal fans travelled to Toronto for the Ontario Pharmacists Association (OPA) Cup. The annual face off against the University of Toronto Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy is one of several events students organize during Pharmacist Awareness Month.
Owning your own pharmacy is a hefty responsibility, but for Angela the hard work and long hours are both familiar and rewarding. Angela and her sister Gina grew up in and out of Preston Medical Pharmacy in Cambridge.