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The new School of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo (UW) has an immediate opening for a Geriatric Research Clinician. This position has been created through a collaborative initiative between UW, its Research Institute for Aging, RBJ Schlegel Holdings, Inc. and Oakwood Retirement Communities Inc. (a dynamic and innovative organization that features eight seniors’ care facilities (Long-Term Care, Retirement Home, Apartment) located in Kitchener, Guelph and the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).

The new School of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo (UW) has an immediate opening for a Geriatric Research Clinician. This position has been created through a collaborative initiative between UW, its Research Institute for Aging, RBJ Schlegel Holdings, Inc. and Oakwood Retirement Communities Inc. (a dynamic and innovative organization that features eight seniors’ care facilities (Long-Term Care, Retirement Home, Apartment) located in Kitchener, Guelph and the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). About 70% of the successful applicant’s time will be devoted to clinical research that seeks to improve care and overall quality of life for seniors. In particular, the individual is expected to focus on optimizing medication effectiveness and patient safety. Included in the mandate is the need to: identify and evaluate patient, clinician, and system factors that contribute to the safe and effective use of medications among the elderly; evaluate the effects of medications on patient clinical, psycho-social, and economic outcomes in the geriatric setting; develop and use data repositories and novel population-based methods to optimize the uses of medications, and for the identification or confirmation of adverse events; characterize general patterns of medication use to determine their effect on clinical, humanistic, and economic outcomes. More details on the PSD