BSc (Pharm), MBA, MISc, PhD, FCAHS; Professor and Murray Koffler Research Chair in Management at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy University of Toronto
Zubin’s research focusses on the professional and personal development of the health human resources workforce. He has published over 120 peer reviewed papers and authored three reference texts. He has won awards for his research from national and international organizations and in 2017 was appointed a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, one of the highest honours for health researchers in Canada. He is also an award-winning educator having received the Province of Ontario's Leadership in Faculty Teaching Award, the University of Toronto's President's Teaching Award and he has been named undergraduate Professor of the Year by students on 17 separate occasions.
BA, MA, PhD; Professor and Herbert S. Lamb Chair in Business Education, Rowe School of Business, Dalhousie University
James is a globally recognized expert in complex organizational behaviour, ethics and strategy who has specific expertise in leadership, safety, change management and stakeholder engagement. As a member of the SafetyNET-Rx research team (www.safetynetrx.ca), his most recent research concerns safe medical practices in high-risk, complex environments and is funded by the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation. Professor Barker has consulted and coached across many different organizational levels and with a variety of public, private and governmental entities such as flight crews, engineering and technology executives, scientists and policy makers, manufacturing managers, and medical safety specialists. He has lived, lectured and worked in Canada, the U.S. and New Zealand and has cultivated strong networks in the Asia-Pacific and European regions. While in New Zealand, Professor Barker was designated as a “world-class” scholar by the country’s performance-based research evaluation program for contributions to global managerial theory and practice.
BSc (Pharm), PharmD, MSc; Professor and holder of the Ontario College of Pharmacists Professor in Pharmacy Practice at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto and Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University
Lisa is an expert in interdisciplinary healthcare team integration, implementation and evaluation of complex interventions in health care, implementation science, and medication prescribing and use. She is on the executive of the Ontario Pharmacy Research Collaboration (www.open-pharmacy-research.ca) that began in 2012. She was recognized as the first-ever Canadian Pharmacist of the Year (2003) and holds the honour of a Canadian Pharmacists Association Centennial Pharmacist.
BSc (Pharm), PharmD, MSc; Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo’s School of Pharmacy; Clinical Pharmacist at the Kitchener Downtown Community Health Centre
Kelly’s research includes novel ways to bring research findings to today’s busy medical clinics and pharmacy counters, namely through innovations in mobile technologies. After completing her pharmacy degree at the University of Alberta and a hospital residency at the London Health Sciences Centre, she moved to the University of British Columbia to do a PharmD, Master of Science degree and a post-doctoral fellowship. She has been at the University of Waterloo since 2011.
BSc (Pharm), MSc, PhD; Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies for the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Alberta
Lisa conducts pharmacy practice research that influences health policy and supports pharmacists’ roles in patient-centered care. Her teaching focuses on practical techniques pharmacists can use to engage patients in dialogue about their medications.
BSc (Pharm), PharmD; Assistant Professor at the College of Pharmacy and the Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University
Jennifer is an investigator with the Canadian Center for Vaccinology and has a Scientific Staff appointment at the IWK Health Centre. She works clinically in Geriatrics at the Nova Scotia Health Authority.
Jennifer teaches a variety of pharmacotherapeutic topics and a critical appraisal/evidence-based medicine course to pharmacy students at Dalhousie University. Her research interests include evaluation of the expanded scope of practice of pharmacists, including immunizing and prescribing; assessing the use of drug and health information resources by students and clinicians; and geriatric-related research.
BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD: Research Lead, Centre for Behaviour Change, University College London (UCL), UK
Fabiana is a behavioural scientist and completed her PhD in Health Psychology at UCL in 2013, investigating the translation of evidence-based smoking cessation behavioural support interventions into clinical practice. She was awarded the UK Society of Behavioural Medicine early career award in 2016. Her main research interests include implementation science, and the application of behavioural theory and frameworks to develop behaviour change interventions to improve clinical practice. She is involved in several projects aiming to change healthcare professional behaviour across a range of contexts, including: audit and feedback interventions to reduce unnecessary blood transfusions; antimicrobial prescribing; optometrist delivered smoking cessation support; and increasing attendance for diabetic retinopathy screening. Fabiana also has a specialist interest in process evaluation methodology, particularly the assessment of intervention fidelity.
BA, MPhil, DPhil, AcSS, FEHPS, FBPS; Professor of Health Psychology and Director of the Centre for Behaviour Change at University College London (UCL), UK
Susan's research focuses on developing the science of behaviour change interventions and applying behavioural science to interventions. She works with a wide range of disciplines, practitioners and policy-makers and holds grants from a large number of organisations including the Wellcome Trust, National Institute of Health Research, Economic and Social Research Council and Cancer Research UK.
Susan studied Experimental Psychology at Oxford University, obtaining a BA in 1976, and a DPhil in Developmental Psychology in 1982. She studied Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, London University, obtaining an MPhil in 1978. She is a chartered clinical and health psychologist, and elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, the Society of Behavioral Medicine, the European Health Psychology Society, the British Psychological Society and a Distinguished International Affiliate of the American Psychological Association.
BSc (Pharm), ACPR, PharmD; Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy, Department of Psychiatry, and School of Nursing, Dalhousie University
Andrea began her career at Dalhousie University in 2002. Andrea is passionate about research and program development, implementation, and evaluation. She is particularly interested in rational pharmacotherapy, mental illness, and addictions care and is currently working with numerous stakeholder groups across Nova Scotia to capitalize on optimizing community pharmacy-based mental health care service delivery to improve health outcomes in our communities. Andrea also works with clients and students as a clinic pharmacist at the Dalhousie School of Social Work Community Clinic in Halifax.
BSc (Pharm), PharmD, MSc, FCSHP, FACC; Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Director of the Epidemiology Coordinating and Research (EPICORE) Centre (a health research coordinating centre); Honorary Professor at the University of Waterloo and the University of Otago (New Zealand)
Ross was born and raised in Vancouver, BC, Canada. He has received several awards for teaching and mentorship, as well as appointment as a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists (FCSHP), the American College of Cardiology (FACC) and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (FCAHS). In 2005, he was recognized as the Canadian Pharmacist of the Year by the Canadian Pharmacists Association.
His interests include improving public health through engaging community pharmacists as primary care providers (interventional pharmacy practice research). He is also very involved in the provision of support for other researchers and training the next generation of health researchers.
BSc (Pharm), Pharm.D., M.H.P.E.; President, Winslade Consultants Inc.
As an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto in the 1990s, Nancy was a pharmacist at Sunnybrook Medical Centre while developing new pharmacist practice models and the Faculty’s PharmD program. While in Europe from 1994-2003, she completed her Masters in Health Professions Education at the University of Maastricht. Upon her return to Canada Nancy joined McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine. Her research evaluates the use of administrative data to evaluate community pharmacists’ quality of care and to determine system-based factors that influence this quality of care. She relocated to Ottawa in 2013, continuing her research and consulting with primarily national organizations on defining and assessing the competence of health care professionals.
BAS, MHA, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, IWK Health Centre
Andrea is a Postdoctoral Fellow working with the Strengthening Transitions in Pediatric Care lab at the IWK Health Centre. She completed her Interdisciplinary PhD at Dalhousie University exploring patient engagement in patient safety. Her postdoctoral work, funded by the Maritime SPOR Support Unit, aims to improve communication and information exchange across transitions of care for pediatric patients. Andrea has been a Research Associate with SafetyNET-Rx, a community pharmacy research and outreach group, for the past 8 years. Andrea's research interests and areas of expertise include implementation science, patient safety and transitions of care.