Three cheers for this year’s Pillar, Gayle Romanetz

Fond memories and optimism for the future of pharmacy contributed to the celebratory atmosphere at the Inn at the Forks in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on October 16. Pharmacists from across the country gathered to honour Gayle Romanetz, the 2025 recipient of the Canadian Foundation for Pharmacy’s Pillar of Pharmacy Award. With more than 30 years—and counting—in […]
Applauding our Wellspring and Vaccine Services winners

The Canadian Foundation for Pharmacy is thrilled to help spotlight innovation and leadership in pharmacy—as we did in Toronto in September, as co-host of the Ontario Pharmacists Association’s annual awards ceremony. Two of the three recipients of CFP’s 2025 Wellspring Pharmacy Leadership Awards joined us on the stage: Nishan Devani, who used his Wellspring Grant […]
Telling results from mental healthcare study

Recent research confirms pharmacists’ potential to improve outcomes in mental health when they provide enhanced services—and ironically helps illustrate the precarity of pharmacists’ own capacity to do more. The Canadian Foundation for Pharmacy announced funding for the Mental Health Assessment and Prescribing by Alberta Pharmacists (MAP-AP) study in 2019. The objective was to assess the […]