Pharmacy Professional Development Week Awards

Our pharmacy students attended PDW from January 7 to 11 in Quebec City. They made their school proud by participating in competitions and professional development activities and results were as follows:

National Competition Results

IPSF Health Campaign Award: 1st Prize
This award was for the 2013 HIV/AIDS Campaign headed by AJ Havlicek and Paige Fehr (IPSF representatives on CAPSI Local Council 2013-14). This award comes with prize money to put forth towards future health campaigns and also a monetary prize for a local charity of CAPSI's choice. AIDS Saskatoon will be receiving this bursary.

Compounding Competition: 3rd Place
Team: Madison Schmidt, Trista Kobussen, Jayesh Changela Darren Bogle 

Student Literary Competition: 3rd Place
Stacey Leek: "Rewards in Pharmacy: A Barrier to Effective Patient Care in Western Canada”  

Guy Genest Award: Darren Bogle

Other news to report includes:

• The students in the Pharmafacts Bowl, and competitors included Stefano Barillaro, Jailin Liu, Jana Ridley and Madison Schmidt. 
• Paraag Trivedi represented the college in the Patient Interview Competition.
• Jayesh Changela represented the college in the OTC Counseling Competition.
• Darren Bogle represented the college in the first ever National Mr. Pharmacy Pageant and sang his way to third place.
• CAPSI National Elections were also held and the new national CAPSI council was announced. Kelsey Joorisitywill be moving up to the position of CAPSI Senior for Saskatchewan and Shelby Scherbey was elected as CAPSI Executive Secretary.
• Waterloo was announced as the host for Professional Development Week 2016 in Niagara Falls.