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The University of British Columbia is pleased to announce that Dr. Peter Caravan will join the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UBC Vancouver as the Eddie Goldenberg Distinguished Research Chair of Canada in Translational Molecular Imaging and Therapy. Dr. Caravan is expected to begin his appointment in July 2027. Learn more

Welcome from Dean Lalitha Raman-Wilms

Headshot of Lalitha Raman-Wilms.

Welcome to the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of British Columbia. As leaders and innovators in pharmacy education, research and practice, we uphold a singular vision: to be a catalyst for change in pharmacy practice and the pharmaceutical sciences. We strive to enact this vision by supporting the optimization of drug therapy in the pursuit of improving patient outcomes, and empowering future generations of healthcare practitioners in the pharmaceutical sciences. I invite you to explore our website to discover this exceptional community of faculty, practitioners, students, staff and alumni dedicated to advancing these goals via our strategic plan: Catalyst for Change 2.0.

Lalitha Raman-Wilms
Dean

At a Glance 

By the Numbers

2026 QS World University Rankings, Pharmacy & Pharmacology: 
#27 Worldwide
#10 in North America
#2 in Canada

As of Jan 2026 (from Jan 1, 2025 to Dec 31, 2025)

  • Publications: 174
  • Grants: 156
  • Awards: 36
  • Presentations: 75
  • Media Hits: 142
  • Students
    • E2P PharmD: 663 (2024 Winter Term 2); 642 (2025 Summer Term); 874 (2025 Winter Term 1)
    • Flex PharmD: 17 (2024 Winter Term 2); 11 (2025 Summer Term); 10 (2025 Winter Term 1)
    • BPSc: 203 (2024 Winter Term 2); 120 (2025 Summer Term); 275 (2025 Winter Term 1)
    • GDPL: 7 (2024 Winter Term 2); 7 (2025 Summer Term); 4 (2025 Winter Term 1)
    • MSc: 44
    • PhD: 50
    • Postdoctoral Research Fellows: 29
    • 6,613 enrolments in 53 Continuing Pharmacy Professional Development programs and 60 students in 3 Canadian Pharmacy Practice Program offerings
  • Alumni (total): 7,978
  • Experiential Education: 866 Experiential Partners in 570 Sites
  • Practice: 1,574 Patient Encounters (Jan 1, 2025–Dec 31, 2025); 29,230 Patient Encounters (cumulative total through 146 months of operation)
  • People: 82 Total FTE Faculty; 716 Clinical Faculty; 11 Honourary Faculty; 100 Total Staff; 2 Research Associates; 183 Student Workers

To view our 2025 Year in Review report, click here (PDF, 16 MB).

October 2026

Wilbur K, Kuo I, Yu R, Basra B, Nimmon L, Atherley A. Community pharmacist networks of patient care – collaborating across and beyond boundaries. Journal of Interprofessional Care 2026; 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/13561820.2026.2714856.

Kennie-Kaulbach N, Charrois TL, Hall JJ, Nagy D, Jarvis-Selinger S. It takes a village: Supporting professional identity formation in Canadian pharmacy schools’ curricula. Curr Pharm Teach Learn. 2027;19:102812. doi:10.1016/j.cptl.2026.102812.

Desjarlais C, Meneghetti J, Sedgwick ED, Conklin AI. A Comprehensive Overview of Traditional Indigenous Foods in Canada: Analysis of Grey Literature and Public Information Sources. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2026 Aug 26;23(9):1110.

Garg AX, Al-Jaishi AA, Conklin AI, et al. Alterations to the Consent Process in Five Pragmatic Randomized Trials of Routine Hemodialysis Care. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2026 Aug 20.

Mehranfar S, Keller H, Cohen T, Murphy R, Conklin AI. Whose Diet Suffers When Social Ties Change? Inter-Related Socioeconomic and Gender Inequalities in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging Cohort. Nutrients; 2026; 18(20) 10.3390/nu18203416.

Sina Halvaei, Vignesh Krishnamoorthy, Jing Xu, Suganthi Chittaranjan, Shane Colborne, John Daly, Gregg B. Morin, Simon Wisnovsky, Sharon M. Gorski, Karla C. Williams. Extracellular vesicles from chemoresistant breast cancer cells reprogram macrophages toward an M2-like phenotype in an ABCC1-dependent manner. Journal of Cell Science, Published online October 22, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.265094.

Edvardsson K, Schummers L, Moulton JE, Li X, Cheng L, Mazza D, Goldstone P, Grossman D. Regulatory Policy Changes and Mifepristone Access Through Pharmacies in Australia. JAMA Network Open. 2026;9(10):e2637766. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.37766.

Traaseth T, Niles K, Cordingley C, Berry-Einarson K, Peters H, Giesbrecht E, Hobbs A, Schummers L, Strumpf EC, Liauw J, Hutcheon JA. Impact of pre-labour caesarean delivery for a low-risk indication on hospital length of stay and costs in singleton, nulliparous women. Paediatric & Perinatal Epidemiology. Epub ahead of print October 21, 2026. doi:10.1111/ppe.70188.

Wilbur K, Ismail D, Shu T, Makowsky M, Tremblay M-L, Black EK, Perepelkin P, Nakhla N. Mapping quality indicators for pharmacist-led clinical services in community pharmacy: a scoping review. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 2026 Aug 7:103. doi: 10.1093/ijpp/riag103.

Kopac N, Dragojlovic N, Llorian ER, Lehman A, Lynd LD, A budget impact analysis for the addition of rare disease genes to secondary findings screening during genome-wide sequencing, Genetics in Medicine (2026). Available online 10 October 2026. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gim.2026.102755.

Conference abstracts presented by Blair MacDonald at the 2026 Canadian Cardiovascular Congress in October:

  • Turgeon RD, Macdonald B, Hawkins N, Marquis-Gravel G. P249 WHO’S KEEPING SCORE? PROPOSAL FOR PREFERENCE-INFORMED WIN STATISTICS AND USE TO RE-ANALYZE NINE HEART FAILURE PHARMACOTHERAPY TRIALS. Can J Cardiol 2026;42:S160.
  • Macdonald BJ, Bansback N, Hawkins N, Lauck S, Sadatsafavi M, Harrison M, Turgeon RD. P234 PREDICTED UPTAKE OF HEART FAILURE WITH REDUCED EJECTION FRACTION MEDICATIONS BASED ON PATIENT PREFERENCES: SECONDARY ANALYSIS OF A DISCRETE CHOICE EXPERIMENT. Can J Cardiol 2026;42:S149–S150.
  • Macdonald BJ, Mcintyre WF, Sandhu R, Cheung C, Healey JS, Jain R, Jolly U, Turgeon RD. P171 ELECTROCARDIOGRAM-BASED ATRIAL FIBRILLATION SCREENING VERSUS USUAL CARE IN PEOPLE AT HIGHER RISK OF STROKE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS. Can J Cardiol 2026;42:S107–S108.

Conference abstracts presented by Ricky Turgeon at the 2026 ESC Congress in August:

  • Turgeon R, MacDonald BJ, Hawkins NM, Marquis-Gravel G. Who’s keeping score? proposal for preference-informed win statistics and use to re-analyze 9 heart failure pharmacotherapy trials. Eur Heart J 2026;47(Supplement_1):ehag785.4454. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehag785.4454.
  • Turgeon R on behalf of the SHARE-HF Research Group. Patient preferences for heart failure medications: a discrete choice experiment. Eur Heart J 2026;47(Supplement_1):ehag785.1287. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehag785.1287.

October 2026

Project title: Open Infrastructure for Comic Narrative Learning in Pharmaceutical Sciences , PI: Jennifer Brown, Co-I: Alexander Smith, Kabir Bhalla, Kevin Krisnahadi, Funding Source: OER Fund Rapid Innovation Grant, Amount: $2,000, Project summary: Funds will be used to develop an accessible, sustainable website for sharing comic narratives and associated teaching resources that are being created as learning tools in the BPSc program. The website will support educators within and beyond UBC in adopting, adapting, and developing comics to teach complex scientific concepts.


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