Meet our Titanium Sponsor
Scotiabank is proud to be working with the Canadian Pharmacists Association as a preferred banking partner. CPhA members have access to our Scotia Professional Plan, an industry-leading, fully customizable financial package that ensures you have everything you need to set up and run a successful practice. Our advisors work with you to understand both personal and professional goals, recommending the right combination of financing options, investment and wealth management services plus discounts on banking services—all in one convenient package. We are here to make managing your finances easier so you can focus on your patients and your ongoing business success. We’d look forward to working with you. Please visit a local Scotiabank branch or call 1-877-552-5522 to book an appointment with an advisor in your area.
Meet our Diamond Sponsors
Apotex, Inc., founded in 1974 by Dr. Barry Sherman, is the largest Canadian-owned pharmaceutical company. The Canadian operations of the Apotex Group of Companies has approximately 6000 employees. Extensive investments in Canadian facilities include over 3 million square feet in manufacturing and research and development (R&D) facilities in 20 sites, which produce 90% of our product lines. Out of the total employee base, there are close to 2000 scientific staff, including 110 PhDs. Apotex produces more than 300 generic medicines in over 4000 dosages and formats that, in Canada, are used to fill over 89 million prescriptions a year—the largest amount of any pharmaceutical company in this country. Manufacturing capabilities have risen steadily to close to 24 billion dosages per annum. Its R&D expenditures represent 12.5% (2013), thereby placing Apotex in the top 13 R&D companies in Canada and first within the pharmaceutical industry. Plans are to have expenditures of more than $2.1 billion on R&D in Canada over the next 10 years.
Loblaw Pharmacies want the best for our patients. As a grocery-based pharmacy, we are focused on helping our patients to live life well by providing a holistic approach to pharmacy care. With 14 million Canadians shopping in our stores each week and over 1200 Loblaw pharmacists across Canada, we are one of the most accessible and convenient places to get pharmacy care.
We’re focused on providing our patients with screenings for diabetes, bone health and blood pressure, and based on the results, offering personalized advice and pharmacy services to treat and prevent disease. These screenings often lead to medication reviews, pharmacist opinions and medication adaptations. They also open the door to lifestyle counselling to treat and prevent disease—like smoking cessation or referrals to other health care professionals found at our stores, including physicians, dieticians and opticians.
We know that diet has a profound impact on diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. That’s why Loblaw is making it easier for Canadians to incorporate healthy habits into their lives.
Shoppers Drug Mart/Pharmaprix is Canada’s leading health, beauty and pharmacy retailer, with over 1300 locations, each owned by a local pharmacist. We offer patients the convenience of extended hours and 24-hour stores where there is always a pharmacist present, and where they can also shop for over-the-counter medications, beauty products and everyday household essentials.
Our focus is on innovation and advancing the pharmacy profession. From refill reminders to flu vaccinations to medication reviews, we invest in developing the tools and education necessary to consistently deliver an enhanced patient experience.
We support pharmacists in practising to their full scope and are committed to delivering first-to-market initiatives that exceed patients’ expectations. Recent examples include point-of-care testing and assessing and prescribing for minor ailments (ambulatory conditions) in select provinces. In addition to medication care, pharmacists offer nutrition counselling, helping patients better understand the relationship between food and health.
At Shoppers Drug Mart, pharmacists take pride with best-in-class execution and work smart with intensity and passion to produce extraordinary results. We are committed to investing in our communities through our Shoppers Drug Mart WOMEN program and are dedicated to making it easy for Canadians to look, feel and live better for life.