Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Being a grad student is tough – there’s course work, comprehensive exams and research to balance on top of managing personal commitments and teaching duties. When you add working at a pharmacy during a global pandemic into the mix, the days only get busier.
But that’s precisely what Sadaf Faisal (pictured above), Waterloo PhD student and pharmacy owner, has been doing.
Sadaf is one of nearly a dozen graduate students at the School of Pharmacy who is a licensed pharmacist working on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic. Sadaf and her husband own St. Mary’s Pharmacy in Burlington, a small, independent pharmacy that serves a community of older Ontarians, as well as a local retirement centre.