Kudos to the Wellspring Leadership Award winners

Three pharmacists—Nicole Gale, Denise Kreutzwiser and Janice Yeung—have been awarded this year’s Wellspring Leadership Award from the Canadian Foundation for Pharmacists. The award recognizes both demonstrated and potential leadership in individuals in the pharmacy profession and provides a cash reward to allow recipients to further develop personal leadership through study, experiential learning, or mentorship. An outreach pharmacist at the Calgary Drop-In Centre (one of North America’s largest shelters), Gale’s award winnings helped support her attendance at the International Network on Health and Hepatitis in Substance Users (INHSU) Conference in Glasgow this past October, which she says is an invaluable opportunity to learn from other care providers and programs around the globe who are leading the world toward Chronic Hepatitis C Virus elimination. “This award will also support me in developing a post-conference community of practice to bring together inner-city service and care providers to disseminate learnings from the conference, support interprofessional collaboration and dialogue, and ultimately to support better care linkages between the health and social care systems.” Kreutzwiser is aiming to create a one-year ambulatory pharmacy residency program that focuses on chronic pain management and highlights the connection to mental health and rehabilitation strategies at her current workplace at St. Joseph’s Health Care London. She says by training pharmacists to take on leading roles in the ambulatory care setting, and in particular pain and mental health focused areas, they will be better positioned to care for the baby boomer population in the coming years and hopefully keep patients in the comfort of their own homes for longer. To assist her in developing this progarm, she will be using her Wellspring Award to fund two certificate courses through Maastricht University in the Netherlands, as well as to visit a couple of residency programs in the United States. Meanwhile, Yeung will be directing her award funding to support the development and pilot of a regional practicum model in which Entry-to-Practice Doctor of Pharmacy students can complete a series of their pharmacy practicum experiences within a selected rural/remote community or region. Currently, with each course ranging from two to four weeks, students are frequently relocating to rural and remote practice areas where they have little time to make meaningful connections with patients. The Canadian Foundation for Pharmacy provides grants to support current and future pharmacy leaders every year through the Wellspring Pharmacy Leadership Awards. Read: It takes passion to make change happen

Kudos to the Wellspring Leadership Award winners

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