Sarah Hasenbank (right), recipient of the CSHP/CAPSI Hospital Pharmacy Student Award, with CSHP Past President Neil MacKinnon (left).
Sarah Hasenbank is a fourth-year student at the University of Alberta. She completed one year of preprofessional study in sciences at the University of Alberta before beginning her pharmacy education in 2008.
Recently, Sarah completed an elective rotation in ambulatory anticoagulation at the St Albert & Sturgeon Primary Care Network. In addition to her patient care activities, she researched and delivered a presentation about the use of novel oral anticoagulants, as well as creating a patient teaching tool for dabigatran etexilate.
Sarah practised as a student pharmacist during summer 2011 on various pediatric units of the Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton. Major elements of her role there included providing asthma teaching, discharge counselling, and therapeutic drug monitoring for pediatric patients.
In summer 2010, Sarah worked on a review of sulphonyl-urea affinity for various tissues under Dr Scot Simpson at the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. The study, entitled “Variations in Tissue Selectivity Amongst Insulin Secretagogues: A Systematic Review”, was recently published, with Sarah as a coauthor. She has continued her involvement in research under Dr Sharon Mitchell. Her most recent project aimed to characterize the perspectives of various health professional students regarding their roles in the prevention of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and the support of affected individuals.
Sarah has been actively involved in student leadership during her pharmacy studies, and in March 2011 she completed her term as the Interprofessional Director of the Alberta Pharmacy Students’ Association. Through this role she worked with students from other health professions on the Health Science Students’ Association, Alberta Chapter, and the planning committee for the Alberta Interprofessional Conference, to create opportunities for interdisciplinary students to interact. In addition, she collaborated with other health care students to prevent skin cancer through the Skin Cancer Awareness Committee. Her efforts to promote the pharmacy profession earned her the 2011 Canadian Pharmacists Association Centennial Award for the University of Alberta.
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Sarah Hasenbank (right), recipient of the CSHP/CAPSI Hospital Pharmacy Student Award, with CSHP Past President Neil MacKinnon (left). |
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Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy , VOLUME 65 , NUMBER 2 , March-April 2012