After completing an intensive leadership training program offered by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists’ (ASHP), pharmacist Kim Abbass is putting what she learned into real-life practice. Abbass says this graduate program, funded in part by a grant from the Canadian Foundation for Pharmacy’s Wellspring Pharmacy Leadership Awards program, gave her the skills and confidence she […]
New research from the University of Waterloo and the University of Toronto has found that a novel clinical service, called VaxCheck, can effectively support vaccination assessments by pharmacists—and potentially improve vaccination rates. “Our study demonstrated that the program can be operationalized within community pharmacy practice and is well received by patients,” the researchers, led by […]
Pharmacist Justin Aggarwal operates the sole pharmacy at Onion Lake Cree Nation, which straddles both the Saskatchewan-Alberta border—Canada’s only border Cree Nation. Onion Lake Pharmacy is less than 300 square feet, but it’s all the space Aggarwal needs to help the more than 7,000 members of the community. The pharmacy is jointly owned by Aggarwal […]
A typical day for community pharmacist Helen Shi includes consulting with patients, conducting medication reviews, and managing chronic medical conditions. What it does not include is dispensing. “My entire job is clinical services in a retail pharmacy space,” says Shi, clinical pharmacist lead at Calgary Co-op in Calgary, AB. “I get to go home and […]
The Indigenous Pharmacy Professionals of Canada (IPPC) launched in 2022, but the seeds for the organization were sown almost a decade earlier when Jaris Swidrovich was accepted into the College of Pharmacy and Nutrition at the University of Saskatchewan. His excitement at being accepted into the program was quickly dampened by the fact he could find […]
