I've discovered that the greatest impact I've made in my career is not with my patients but with my colleagues. While the impacts I've made with patients fulfill my sense of purpose, the biggest difference I can make is helping empower my colleagues to be confident and effective in their work.
I am an academic pharmacy leader and Dean of the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto. I do research, teach, and hold various leadership roles across pharmacy and healthcare.
When Chris and Erin Briggs wake up tomorrow morning, they'll be celebrating their 38th wedding anniversary. And thanks to a simple twist of fate, it will also be the first day they won't have to go downtown to work in their drugstore.
When Aska Patel isn’t doing medication management home visits, or consulting with healthcare stakeholders on new business ventures, you will find her hosting her own podcast on the “Future of Pharmacy.”
There are many interesting opportunities for pharmacy technicians who opt to pursue them, says Robert Solek. Now working as a pharmacy technician at Indigenous Services Canada, Solek speaks from experience.
A year ago, the Pharmacy Technician Society of Alberta conducted a survey on the roles of pharmacy technicians in Alberta and how they are viewed by pharmacy professionals. The results will now be used to integrate pharmacy technicians into practice.
With pharmacy technicians now full members of the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists, they played a role in leading two education sessions at “Together 2022,” CSHP’s hospital pharmacy conference
