Independent Ownership in Pharmacy

From the Office of Advancement and Alumni Relations along with the Centre for Practice Excellence, join us for a live virtual event on Independent Ownership in Pharmacy: Myths, Realities and Opportunities.

This live event will dispel some prevailing myths about independent pharmacy ownership while discussing competing with chain stores, defining success, as well as the challenges and benefits of being your own boss. Join us for an inspiring but realistic look at Independent Ownership.

Speakers:

• Chris Wong 1T5 PharmD, RPh, BCGP
  Owner, Victoria Park Pharmacy and Surrey Victoria Park Pharmacy
• Kristen Watt 1T0 BScPhm, RPh
  Pharmacist and Owner, Kristen's Pharmacy
• Nav Thiara
  Senior National Manager Healthcare Professionals (Pharmacy Group), Commercial Banking, National BankNav has been a banking professional for over 9 years, with the last 4 years in commercial/health professional banking. Nav helps health professionals with their financing needs, cash flows whether it’s a start up, acquisition or equity take out. With a team of professionals, he makes sure to achieve and exceed clients expectations.
• Scott Coulter 9T3 BScPhm
  Owner, Coulter's Pharmacy & Home Health Care, Dura Med Mobility Products
• Shannon Fry 0T5 BScPhm
  Pharmacist and Owner, Thornbury Pharmasave

• Emily Musing (Moderator) 8T3 BScPhm
  Leader-in-Residence, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
  Former Vice President, Quality and Safety and Chief Patient Safety Officer, University Health Network (UHN)

Emily Musing is an Associate Professor with the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and with the Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, and an affiliate member of the Centre for Patient Safety, University of Toronto. She is the the former Vice President, Quality and Safety and Chief Patient Safety Officer at the University Health Network in Toronto, Canada, where she led both inpatient and outpatient pharmacy services across UHN’s many sites. She was also responsible for providing leadership related to Infection Prevention and Control, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program and the Patient Safety Team.

Emily received her Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto and her Masters of Health Science in Health Administration from the Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto.

• Zubin Austin (Moderator) 8T8 BScPhm
  Academic Director, Centre for Practice Excellence Professor
  Koffler Chair, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy

Professor Austin is the only U of T Faculty member to ever have received both the President’s Research Impact Award (for societal significance of his work) and the President’s Teaching Excellence Award (for sustained contributions as a teacher). In 2017, he was installed as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences for his contributions in support of the health workforce. He is an international leader in the area of bridging education for internationally educated professionals, and is regularly commissioned by health professions’ regulatory bodies in Canada, the US, the UK and Australia to study competency-related issues.

He has delivered over 150 keynote presentations at international conferences. In 2019 he was selected to deliver the Herbert Platter Lecture at the Federation of State Medical Boards (US) meeting. In addition, he has been named undergraduate Professor of the Year by students on 16 separate occasions.

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