Vicki Wood

Vicki Wood

Editor, Pharmacy Practice+Business

Author Profile

Vicki Wood is a veteran journalist and editor with almost three decades covering the Canadian pharmacy profession. She started as a news writer for Maclean Hunter's Pharmacist News then moved to various positions on iterations of the publication now comprising Pharmacy Practice + Business and the pharmacists' web portal CanadianHealthcareNetwork.ca. Some core memories from her journey with Canadian pharmacists include the fight to keep selling tobacco in pharmacies (!), Days spent at Queens Park covering the pharmacy protests against Ontario's fee cuts and celebrating pharmacy superstars and emerging leaders at the Commitment to Care Awards.

She truly enjoys sharing the stories of Canada's most creative, innovative pharmacy practitioners in the publication's regular Innovators series, and reporting on trending issues discovered at pharmacy professional gatherings. You will find her searching for new ideas and new pharmacists to celebrate at pharmacy events across North America—from Canada's provincial meetings to National conferences and even the American Pharmacists Association or National Community Pharmacists' Association's annual conventions.

Under Vicki's editorship, the publications have earned a number of industry awards including the U.S, FOLIO and Tabbie Awards and Canada's Kenneth R Wilson Awards and many from the National Magazine Awards: B2B. She was also the recipient in 2012 of Rogers' annual CEO Award and 2011 Community Involvement Award for her work as founder of a Toronto food bank, meal and support program for inner-city youth. She currently lives in Picton, Ont. where she spends time outside of work volunteering with the County Food Hub, the Hastings & Prince Edward Learning Foundation and helps out at various local farms and wineries.

ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

1/10/2023
Mediterranean diet lowers risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes
The better the adherence, the greater the benefits, according to first major study of impact of lauded diet on pregnancy.

Vicki Wood
1/4/2023
A pharmacy nightmare before Christmas!
Thanks to those who have already entered our "Write to Win" reader contest. In the coming weeks we'll be publishing your entries. First up is an excellent (and dare we say, perhaps triggering?) poem by pharmacist Lauren Sule. What a story! What a team!

Vicki Wood
1/2/2023
Four tips for pharmacists prescribing for minor ailments
With a decade's worth of experience with minor ailment assessment and prescribing in her province, Sascha Dreger has some tips to share with her colleagues just getting started.

Vicki Wood
12/29/2022
Updated guidance on probiotic use in neonates, infants and children
Canadian Paediatric Society has issued revised recommendations for using probiotics in pediatric populations

Vicki Wood
12/28/2022
Patients are highly satisfied with pharmacy-based travel health services
A systematic review examines the types and outcomes of pharmacist-managed travel health services

Vicki Wood
12/28/2022
Buprenorphine safer than methadone during pregnancy for opioid-use disorder
But no real difference in risk of adverse maternal outcomes.

Vicki Wood
12/22/2022
Minor ailments counselling tools: #1 Moderate to severe dry eye
Students from the Advanced Patient Self-Care class at University of Waterloo's School of Pharmacy have created counselling tools and patient handouts on some common minor ailments and conditions.

Vicki Wood
12/14/2022
Share your reccos on OTCs
Pharmacists, please participate in our 29th annual Survey on OTC Counselling and Recommendations.

Vicki Wood
12/13/2022
Leadership, advocacy and pharmacy – our future is bright
Here's what I've learned: Pharmacy leadership is like an iceberg—much of the work being done on behalf of the profession happens out of sight.

Vicki Wood
12/5/2022
It takes passion to make change happen
I often hear from pharmacists who feel stuck in stressful jobs that make them miserable.

Vicki Wood