I'm Pharmacy Podcast

26 episodes - English - Latest episode: 28 days ago -

The Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto is a dynamic faculty made up of pharmacy leaders and researchers in the heart of Canada’s thriving healthcare and research ecosystem. From drug discovery to deprescribing, we are exploring and pushing the limits of the profession and the science resulting in better medications, a better health system and better health.

Join host Mina Tadrous -- a pharmacist, researcher and Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy Assistant Professor -- from the heart of Toronto's Discovery District as he explores the journey of a drug, chatting with world-class researchers and professionals about each step of the process.

From bench to bedside, tune in for the full dose.

Host: Dr. Mina Tadrous
Production, Editing, Music: Steve Southon
Music: Diego Martinez
Production: Kate Richards

Check out Season One of the I'm Pharmacy Podcast, recorded and produced by Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy PharmD students.
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Episodes

S4.E3. - Champions of Change

April 02, 2024 10:00 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MB

Here we go on the path of innovation. On this episode, we build on the pathway of innovation to better understand how change occurs, how the spark of a novel discovery can really kick start this journey. We do believe that all good innovation should be grounded in strong science. But how and where does it start? Where does the initial spark come from? How does the scientist see a discovery and select this path? Do they know this from the onset? Has it shaped the questions they ask? Or is it a...

S4.E2. - From Lab to Market

March 05, 2024 11:00 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MB

Historically, academia has been breeding ground for groundbreaking discoveries. But often these findings remained confined within Academic Journals lacking the pathway to real world applications. However, as technology transfer offices popped up around universities around the world, entrepreneurial programs, catalysts, collaborative initiatives, universities are more and more recognizing the value of translating their research into products and therapies that can benefit society. As communit...

S4. E1. - Eureka!

January 24, 2024 10:00 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MB

Welcome to Season Four. Join us in kicking-off a new season of the I'm Pharmacy Podcast as we explore the heart and soul of the academic endeavour, innovation. Now, before you roll your eyes about another podcast focusing on innovation, this season goes beyond a re-telling of success, and gets to the bottom of where innovation comes from. We dive deep into where ideas come from, what failures led to success, and the difficulties of taking an innovation from idea to intervention. In our fir...

MINISERIES Ep 3: The Future of Pharmacy Is...

August 24, 2023 10:00 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MB

In the final episode of season three, we're turning our spotlight to the ones who will be the forefront of tomorrow's pharmacy landscape, our pharmacy students. Featuring: Theodora Udounwa, fourth year PharmD student, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy Al-Amin Ahamed, fourth year PharmD student, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy Madelynn Hannah, pharmacist and MScPhm trainee, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy

'MINISERIES Ep 2: Blank Slate - Live from CPERC 2023

July 10, 2023 18:00 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MB

What is the pharmacist of the future, and how do we train them? Recorded live at the 2023 Canadian Pharmacy Education and Research Conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba, host Mina Tadrous explores the future of pharmacy education alongside an esteemed panel of pharmacists and pharmacy educators. Featuring: Taylor Raiche, University of Saskatchewan Natalie Kennie-Kaulbach, Dalhousie University Sandra Jarvis-Selinger, University of British Columbia Lalitha Raman-Wilms, University of Manitoba

MINISERIES Ep 1: Pharmacy's Moment

June 12, 2023 10:00 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MB

Tune in to the first episode of our I'm Pharmacy Podcast Miniseries 'Pharmacy in Focus'. Throughout the next three episodes, we'll be exploring the current state of pharmacy practice, education and research, and uncovering what the future holds for the profession of pharmacy. In the first episode, we take a trip to Southhampton, Ontario to speak to Pharmacist and Pharmacy Owner Kristen Watt about how her pharmacy model could pave the way for a new era of pharmacy, as well as Leslie Dan Facul...

S3.E5: Our Mental Health Crisis

May 29, 2023 10:00 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MB

In today's episode, we tackle a crisis that affects millions of individuals worldwide, and has reached an alarming proportion in Canada. We're going to talk about the mental health crisis. Mental health disorders have long been a significant concern. In recent years, the magnitude of the problem just feels like it's escalated, leaving a profound effect on individuals, families and communities. Featured guests: Dr. Paul Kurdyak Psychiatrist and Vice President Clinical for the Mental Health a...

S3.E4: Putting Evidence Into Action

April 24, 2023 10:00 - 34 minutes - 31.1 MB

We produce lots of science. There's an estimated 125,000, medical or clinical studies published per month, in 2021. That means that there's over a million different papers with lots of different evidence in different spaces being produced a year. And yet, with all of this knowledge, we seem to see a plateau in people's health and health outcomes. How can it be that despite the availability of high quality evidence, amazing science, and proven effective interventions, there's a delay or a fail...

S3.E3: Dose of Reality: Access to Medications

March 28, 2023 10:00 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MB

Medications are an integral part of our healthcare system, and yet their access is grossly limited around the world. On this episode of the I'm Pharmacy Podcast, we dive into the issue of access to medicine, both globally and in Canada, with family physician Dr. Danielle Martin and Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy Professor Jillian Kohler.

S3.E2 - The Next Pandemic

February 28, 2023 11:00 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MB

Where were you when you first heard the news about the pandemic? On this episode of the I'm Pharmacy Podcast, we dig into the pandemic, what the last three years have looked like, and if we are ready for the next one. To discuss, we chat with Emily Musing, inaugural leader in residence at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy. And former VP clinical and the chief Patient Safety Officer at the University Health Network, as well as Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy Assistant Professor and mRNA exper...

S3.E1 Bugs and Drugs

January 24, 2023 11:00 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MB

In the first episode of season three, we dive into what the World Health Organization calls one of the major public health threats to humanity, antimicrobial resistance. To discuss AMR, and what scientists and health care providers are doing to battle it, we chat with pharmacotherapy specialist Mark McIntyre and Associate Professor in U of T's Department of Molecular Genetics, William Navarre.

Introducing Season Three: Big Problems, Bigger Solutions

January 18, 2023 20:30 - 44 seconds - 691 KB

Introducing Season Three of the I'm Pharmacy Podcast: Big Problems, Bigger Solutions dropping January 24. Big thanks to everyone who showed their support for the show and helped us bring home a silver and listener's choice signal award in the category of science and education!

S2.E8: Show me the Money!

July 27, 2022 10:00 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MB

The global pharmaceutical market is expected to grow to $1.6 trillion this year. In Canada alone, we spend close to $35 billion a year on prescription drugs. This is big money, and Big Pharma. On the last episode of season two, we explore the world of drug pricing and access, chatting with Vice President and Head of Medical, Global Influenza and COVID Franchises Dr. Ayman Chit, and GreenShield Canada Vice-President Pharmacy Benefits Management, Dr. Ned Pojskic. Thanks for listening, and we'...

S2.E7: Optimized Use

June 07, 2022 19:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MB

Recent estimates suggest that close to 40% of adults over the age of 65 are prescribed at least five drugs. But is more better? On this episode on the I'm Pharmacy Podcast we tackle the topic of optimized use, discussing the process of deprescribing, prescribing cascades, and polypharmacy with Clinician Scientist Lisa McCarthy and Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy Professor and Dean Lisa Dolovich.

S2.E6: Drug Safety

April 29, 2022 10:00 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MB

How do we study the safety of drugs? Who studies them? And what does that mean to our risk tolerance of medications? Host Mina Tadrous explores these questions with Pharmacoepidemiologist Dr. Tara Gomes and Clinical Pharmacologist Dr. David Juurlink.

S2.E5: On Trial

March 30, 2022 10:00 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MB

Today, and as we've seen throughout this pandemic, clinical trials are the commonplace for how any new treatment gets approved. It is the gatekeeper to anything getting stocked on the shelves of pharmacies or hospitals. And that's what I want to dive into in this episode. How are trials planned? What does it take to complete one? What are all the different components that go into this gold standard for clinical evidence, the final step before market access. To help answer these questions, we...

S2.E4: Perfect Form

February 28, 2022 17:30 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MB

How do we pick how to introduce the right molecule into the body in the right way? Well, there's a lot of things to consider. How was it absorbed into the body? Where and how is it broken down? What's the size of the molecule? What is it treating? And where do we want it to go? There's lots of different questions to determine the right formulation. So today we explore the magic of formulations. Why is it important? How do we decide from a laundry list of different medications formulations An...

S2.E3: The Big Leap

January 27, 2022 11:00 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MB

The process of moving from a potential drug molecule to being on the shelf of a pharmacy is a long and winding journey. On average, from the time the molecule is discovered to when it's actually approved by the FDA, it takes 12 to 15 years. More importantly, it costs close to $1 billion to bring a drug to market. It's also estimated that of the 1000s of molecules that are looked at, only a few will make it to clinical development, and following that, only five to six percent will survive and ...

S2.E2: On Target

November 24, 2021 11:00 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MB

On this episode of the I'm Pharmacy Podcast, host Mina Tadrous finds answers to the questions: How do we figure out how where drugs work? Does this ever change? And are there more than just one way to find that final target? Featuring discussions with Stèphane Angers, Director and Professor of U of T's Donnelly Centre, and Rob Bonin, Assistant Professor at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and Co-director of the U of T Centre for the Study of Pain.

S2.E1 - Building the Foundation

October 26, 2021 10:00 - 43 minutes - 39.8 MB

In 1921. At the corner of university and college in Toronto, two scientists Frederick Banting, and Charles best figured out how to remove insulin from a dog's pancreas. They extracted thick brown sludge. Fast-forward 100 years, and the world is still benefiting from this momentous discovery. As we kick-off the second season of the I'm Pharmacy Podcast, host Mina Tadrous starts with the pivotal question: Where do the ideas for new drugs start from? Where do they even start by inventing a new...