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UBC CPPD Pharmacy Update 2020 Conference
This year UBC’s Continuing Pharmacy Professional Development (CPPD) celebrates its 31st annual Update Conference.
This CPPD Conference will allow pharmacy professionals and all health care providers to enhance and update their knowledge and skills. In doing so, attendees will be able to improve patient care, medication management, and public safety.
Join us on Saturday, March 7, 2020 at the UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences for a full day of presentations and workshops.
Learn from passionate clinical experts while earning 6.25 CEUs of accredited, continuing pharmacy professional development.
UPDATE 2020 CONFERENCE TRAILER
CPPD Update 2020 Trailer from Ying Gu on Vimeo.
The 31st edition of the CPPD Conference includes an array of exciting topics that will contribute to your practice, including:
- Relaying current and evidence-based smoking cessation modalities and aids to patients.
- Explaining the current usage, cessation potential, and regulatory framework of e-cigarettes/vaping.
- Reflecting on the importance of Indigenous cultural safety, health, and allyship and exploring relevant resources and integration approaches.
- Recognizing different types of drug-induced movement disorders and providing appropriate treatment plans and management.
- Making treatment recommendations, suggesting patient referrals, and being familiar with resources to evaluate drug therapy in the pregnant/postpartum patient.
- Designing patient care plans for prevention, treatment, and support of chemotherapy-induced nausea/vomiting, and skin toxicities.
- Applying current COPD guidelines in selecting appropriate therapies and management of patients.
- Identifying, discussing, and implementing a recent evidence-based pharmacotherapy practice change in patients with various common cardiovascular conditions.
Educational Sessions include both large group didactic sessions and smaller group workshops. Registration in each workshop is limited.
For more detailed program information and to register - please visit:
UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences - Update 2020 Conference
update 2020 Conference Brochure
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Tamiz J. Kanji, BSc (Pharm), RPh
Tamiz Kanji has extensive experience in community pharmacy, interdisciplinary clinical care, and academia. He is the Director of Continuing Pharmacy Professional Development (CPPD) and a Senior Instructor in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences (FoPS) at the University of British Columbia (UBC). In this role, he develops, delivers, accredits, manages, and evaluates continuing professional development for pharmacy professionals and provides educational support to the Entry to Practice PharmD Program within the Faculty. Tamiz has completed the UBC Certificate Program on Curriculum and Pedagogy in Higher Education. He currently serves as the Chair of the Multiple Mini Interviews (MMI) Question Development Committee used for the Faculty’s Admissions process. He developed and fostered the Standardized Patient Program and the use of Simulation Stethoscopes used for learning and assessment within the Faculty. He also trains and teaches in the Clinical Skills: Administration of Injections course at UBC. Tamiz has presented his educational research at regional, national, and international conferences.
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