{"id":620,"date":"2021-10-26T15:44:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T20:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/?p=620"},"modified":"2021-10-27T12:05:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T17:05:52","slug":"faculty-and-staff-updates-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/faculty-and-staff-updates-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty and staff updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After an accomplished and dedicated 39-year career at the College of Pharmacy, <strong>Dr. Ruby Grymonpre<\/strong> retired in June 2021. She was the first faculty member at the College of Pharmacy trained with an advanced PharmD degree to be hired to a tenure track position at a Canadian faculty of pharmacy. With an expertise in geriatric pharmacy, Dr. Grymonpre played a pivotal role in pharmacy for the aging, including a clinical consultant to the Medication Information Line for the Elderly (MILE), established in collaboration with former dean of the College of Pharmacy, Dr. John Steele (1985-2000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Dr. Grymonpre\u2019s teaching and research work focused on the provision of care to the elderly, patient safety and provision of pharmaceutical care, her work in interprofessional education and collaborative practice was also very significant. The College of Pharmacy paid tribute to Dr. Grymonpre\u2019s productive and successful career at a virtual faculty and staff meeting on June 16, 2021. Please join us in wishing Dr. Grymonpre all the best in her retirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We recently welcomed <strong>Dr. Abdullah Al Maruf<\/strong> to the College of Pharmacy as assistant professor, with a focus on clinical pharmacogenomics. Dr. Maruf joins the College of Pharmacy from the departments of psychiatry and physiology and pharmacology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. Dr. Maruf has a keen interest in clinical pharmacogenomics (PGx) in child and young mental health.\u00a0To contact Dr. Maruf, or learn more about his research, please click <a href=\"https:\/\/umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/faculty-staff\/abdullah-maruf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to <strong>Joanne Johnson<\/strong> as a sessional instructor in the College of Pharmacy for the Applied Professional Practice Course (PHMD3012).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On October 12, the College of Pharmacy welcomed <strong>Dr. Linn\u00e9a Shackel<\/strong> as the pharmacy practice \u2013 interprofessional education coordinator.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an accomplished and dedicated 39-year career at the College of Pharmacy, Dr. Ruby Grymonpre retired in June 2021. She was the first faculty member at the College of Pharmacy trained with an advanced PharmD degree to be hired to a tenure track position at a Canadian faculty of pharmacy. With an expertise in geriatric&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}