Feng Chang

• Integration of interprofessional patient-care solutions
• Effective medication use in rural elderly
• Enhancing the professional capacity of health care providers and increasing access to care for rural individuals

• Geriatric pharmacotherapy

• Chronic pain and opioid use

• Rural health

• Pharmacy practice research

 Dr. Feng teaches primarily in the undergraduate program. Courses offered have included:

Pharm 220: Integrated Patient Focused Care 1

Pharm 373: Healthcare Delivery in Rural and Underserved Populations

Pharm 401: Independent Study

Pharm 415: Clinical Rotations: Integrated Care

Pharm 466: Advanced Geriatric Care

1. Cooke M, Waite N, Cook K, Milne E, Chang F, McCarthy L, Sproule B. Incorporating sex, gender and vulnerable populations in a large multisite health research programme: the Ontario Pharmacy Evidence Network as a case study. Health Research Policy and Systems. 2017;15(1):20.
2. Duong S, Patel T, Chang F. Dementia: what pharmacists need to know. Canadian Pharmacists Journal. 2017;150(2):118-29.
3. Maximos M, Chang F, Patel T. Risk of falls associated with antiepileptic drug use in ambulatory elderly populations: a systematic review. Canadian Pharmacists Journal. 2017;150(2):101-11.
4. Chang F, Ibrahim S. Perceptions of community-dwelling patients and their physicians on OxyContin discontinuation and the impact on chronic pain management. Pain Research and Management. 2017;2017:5402915. https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/5402915.
5. Chang F, Paramsothy T, Roche M, Gupta NS. Patient, staff and clinician perspectives on implementing electronic communications in an interdisciplinary rural family health practice. Primary Health Care Research and Development. 2017 Mar;18(2):149-60. Epub 2016 Dec 20. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1463423616000414.
6. McCarthy L, Milne E, Waite N, Cooke M, Cook K, Chang F, Sproule BA. Sex and gender-based analysis in pharmacy practice research: a scoping review. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy. 2016 Nov 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2016.11.007.
7. Patel T, Chang F, Mohammed HT, Raman-Wilms L, Jurcic J, Khan A, Sproule B. Knowledge, perceptions and attitudes toward chronic pain and its management: a cross sectional survey of frontline pharmacists in Ontario, Canada. PLoS ONE. 2016;11(6):e0157151. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0157151.
8. Chang F, Yeung KT, Chan G. Identifying mercury heavy-metal poisoning masquerading as dementia and Parkinson’s disease – recognizing neuropsychiatric manifestations and dietary contributors. Canadian Geriatrics Society Journal of CME. 2015;5(2):1-8.
9. Chang F, Gupta NS. Progress in electronic medical record adoption in Canada. Canadian Family Physician. 2015;61(12):1076-84.
10. O’Connell MB, Chang F, Tocco A, Mills ME, Hwang JM, Garwood CL, Khreizat HS, Gupta NS. Drug-related-problem outcomes and program satisfaction from a comprehensive brown bag medication review. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2015;63(9):1900-5.
11. Chang F, Patel T, Schultz ME. The “Rising Tide” of dementia in Canada: what does it mean for pharmacists and the people they care for? Canadian Pharmacists Journal. 2015;148(4):193-9.
12. Duong S, Yeung KT, Chang F. Intramuscular olanzapine in the management of behavioral and psychological symptoms in hospitalized older adults: a retrospective descriptive study. Journal of Aging Research. 2015;570410. Doi:10.1155/2015/570410.
13. Mercer K, Baskerville NB, Burns CM, Chang F, Giangregorio L, Goodwin JT, Rezai LS, Grindrod K. Using a collaborative research approach to develop an interdisciplinary research agenda for the study of mobile health interventions for older adults. Journal of Medical Internet Research mHealth and uHealth. 2015;3(1):e11. Doi:10.2196/mhealth.3509.
14. Patel T, Chang F. Practice recommendations for Parkinson’s disease: assessment and management by community pharmacists. Canadian Pharmacists Journal. 2015;148(3):142-9.
15. Patel T, Chang F. Parkinson’s disease guidelines for pharmacists. Canadian Pharmacists Journal. 2014;147(3):161-70.
16. Duong S, Chang F. A practical approach to the management of chronic non-cancer nociceptive pain in the elderly. Canadian Pharmacists Journal. 2011;144(6):270-7.
17. Chang F, Jaber LA, Berlie HD, O’Connell MB. Evolution of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor agonists. Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 2007;41(6):973-83.

• 2017: Canadian Association for University Continuing Education best Non-credit Programming under 46 hours award for the Opioid Education Partnership
• 2011 Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists Ontario Branch Pharmaceutical Care Award
• 2010 Pharmacy Practice and Drugstore Canada Commitment to Care and Service Awards – Hospital Pharmacy Initiative
• 2008 Volunteer Award in Professional Guidance, Chinese Professionals Association of Canada
• 2007 Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists Ontario Branch Literary Award – Therapeutic Review or Case Report
• 2007 Volunteer Award, Chinese Professionals Association of Canada
• 2006 Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists Ontario Branch Pharmaceutical Care Award
• 2006 First Annual Best Practices in Online Learning Award, RxBriefcase, www.RxBriefcase.com

Dr. Chang co-leads two major research projects:

1. The Opioid Education Partnership, a collaborative, web-based education program for evidence-based opioid management that targets physicians, pharmacists, students and trainees
2. The Chronic pain management by rural and urban community pharmacists project, a research study that is developing, implementing and evaluating new pharmacist services to better manage chronic pain in urban and rural communities.

She is also the Chair of Rural Pharmacy at the Gateway Centre of Excellence in Rural Health.

Other scholarly and professional activities

• Associate editor, Canadian Pharmacists Journal (2005–Present)

• Clinical pharmacist, Huron Community Family Health Team, Seaforth, ON (2013–Present)

• Member of the Health Canada Scientific Advisory Panel on Opioids (Nov 2016)

The following news stories have featured Dr. Chang's research:

• Mar, 2017: Everything you wanted to know about your Parkinson's medications

• Oct 5, 2016: Advocacy group uses technology to help pharmacists assist Parkinson's patients

• Oct 4, 2016: Parkinson Canada reaches out to pharmacies to enhance their ability to advise people living with the disease

• Jun 29, 2016: Gateway summer students promote health in Huron County

• Mar 16, 2016: Pharmacists doing more to support patients with dementia, their families and caregivers

• Oct 13, 2015: Federal government funds interdisciplinary program to curb opioid misuse

• Jan 15, 2015: Online resources to help treat Parkinson's disease

• Apr 24, 2014: New Study Underway at Gateway Rural Health Research Institute in Seaforth

• Jun 26, 2013: Three years of research celebrated as Gateway renews Memorandum of Understanding with Waterloo Pharmacy

• Dec 15, 2011: Wealth connected to health in new Gateway study

BScPhm (Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto)

PharmD (College of Pharmacy, Ohio State University)

Postdoctoral Specialty Training in Geriatric Pharmacotherapy (Wayne State University)