News

Congratulations to our students, staff, faculty, alumni and friends on their recent acheivements:

• Dr. Lisa Golberg (Nursing) has been invited by the College of Nursing at the University of Colorado in Denver to be a visiting scholar.  As well as meeting with doctoral students and faculty, Dr. Goldberg will be sharing her knowledge of Caring Science at an on-site intensive week related to the University of Colorado's newly developed Caring Science stream of their Nursing PhD Program.
  
• Barbara Hill-Taylor (IMPART Research Unit, Pharmacy), Ingrid Sketris (Pharmacy), Paul Spin (Economics), Courtney Ward (Economics) and Katrina Hurley (Emergency Medicine, IWK Health Centre) won the poster award in the category of clinical research at the 2015 Canadian Association of Paediatric Heatlh Centres (CAPHC) Annual Conference for "A Cost Analysis of Salbutamol Administration by Metered-Dose Inhalers with Spacer versus Nebulization for Patients with Wheeze in the Pediatric Emergency Department: Evidence from Observational Data in Nova Scotia."  The prizes, provided by CAPHC and CIHR (Institute of Human Development and Child and Youth Health), included a $500 cash award and complementary registration for the 2016 CAPHC Annual Meeting to be held in Halifax.
• The College of Pharmacy held their annual White Coat Ceremony for first-year Pharmacy students at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium on October 16, 2015.  The ceremony welcomes students into the profession of pharmacy, and the white coat symbolizes the acceptance of the rights and responsibilities of a professional.  Family and friends watched as students entered the auditorium and were later "coated" on stage by pharmacists.  Representatives of the College, the Maritime pharmacy regulatory authorities, the alumni class of 1965 and the student class president provided words of welcome and encouragement.
• During Homecoming Weekend, the College of Pharmacy Class of 1965 held its 50th reunion.  This class was the first to attain a Bachelor of Science (Pharmacy).  The college hosted a reception for the class, where new and retired faculty members mingled with the "Students of '65."  Several members of the Class of 1965 also attended the first year students' White Coat Ceremony and assisted with "coating" the students.  The reunion began with attendance at the alumni dinner, and ended with lunch at Luckett's Vineyards.
• Pharmacy Resident Laura Minard was winner of the 2015 Pharmacy Practice Residency Award, sponsored by the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists (NS and NB Branch) for her project "Pharmacists perceptions of the barriers and facilitators to the implementation of clinical pharmacy key performance indicators."