Advanced Practice Pharmacists: Do they have a future? 

Advanced Practice Pharmacists: Do they have a future?  

In a time of expanding scope of practice, the term ‘advanced practice’ may have lost its meaning.  In this presentation, we will reflect on how advanced pharmacy practitioners have shaped the profession and how future advanced pharmacy practitioners can be trained and nurtured so that the profession can continue to progress.  

About the Presenters:

Beth Sproule is a Clinician Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto, jointly with the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, where she is an Associate Professor and cross-appointed to the Department of Psychiatry. She received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Wayne State University, Detroit, USA and her BScPhm degree from the University of Toronto. Dr. Sproule completed a clinical residency and a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Addiction Research Foundation, Toronto (now part of CAMH). Together with Dr. Lee Dupuis, Beth developed and co-leads the MScPhm program at the University of Toronto.  

Lee Dupuis completed her pharmacy training at the University of Toronto and a PhD at the University of Amsterdam.  She is an Associate Senior Scientist, Research Institute; a Health Clinician Scientist, Department of Pharmacy, and a Clinical Pharmacist, Haematology/Oncology/Blood and Marrow Transplant/Cellular Therapy at SickKids, Canada and a Professor and Clinician Scientist at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Canada.  Together with Dr. Beth Sproule, Lee developed and co-leads the MScPhm program at the University of Toronto.    

Discussant: Lisa Burry

Dr. Lisa Burry is a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at Mount Sinai Hospital and an Assistant Professor in the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto. Dr. Burry has extensive expertise in patient and drug safety in emergency, trauma and critical care environments. Her research interests focus on delirium, sedation, analgesia, and chemical and physical restraint in the critical care unit. She is a member of the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. She is also a member of the Patient Safety Group of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and a member of the disaster management committees with American College of Chest Physicians and the Society of Critical Care Medicine.