Josephine Orso Simon

Josephine joined the School of Pharmacy at the end of 2008 as the Pharmaceutics Course/Lab instructor. In her previous role as the Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Lab Instructor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Waterloo, she was responsible for six undergraduate Organic Chemistry lab courses per year.

Josephine has extensive experience in non-sterile extemporaneous compounding and dosage form design, physical pharmacy and pharmaceutical technology.

• 2004 Masters of Science, Organic Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Canada

• 2000 Industrial Pharmacy, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

• 1999 Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

• PHARM 124 - Pharmaceutics 1
  • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
• PHARM 125 - Pharmaceutics 2
  • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
• PHARM 361 - Advanced Compounding
  • Taught in 2021, 2022, 2023

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• Gao J, Orso Simon J, Rodrigo R, Assoud A. From chiral ortho-benzoquinone monoketals to nonracemic indolinocodeines through Diels-Alder and Cope reactions. J Org Chem. 2013;78(1):48-58. doi:10.1021/jo3014098