Pharmacists Manitoba Conference
Innovation Spotlight: A Health Care Team
Lengim Ingram, B.Sc. (Pharm). CDE
Lengim Ingram graduated from Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Manitoba in 1990 and has worked in rural retail pharmacy, large chain pharmacy in Winnipeg, as well as guest lecturing at the Faculty of Pharmacy and being a preceptor for pharmacy students and technicians. In addition to being a CDE, she has taken advance training in Smoking cessation, injections, obesity management and geriatric care, and has given many presentations to HCP and the public. She was awarded the Pharmacist Manitoba Blando Patient Care Award, SDM Best Practice Pharmacist, and SDM pharmacist of the year.
Lengim currently works as a pharmacist diabetes educator in two endocrinology offices and several GP's offices in Winnipeg and does relief work in retail pharmacies when time permits. She recently started a journal club for pharmacists interested in the area of diabetes in the hopes of connection and mentorship, as well as building confidence in this area. She hopes to foster inter professional connections in order to improve patient care and outcome.
Lengim will be discussing how she came to work in the endocrinology and general practitioner’s offices and her role as a pharmacist in these health care teams.
Embracing Obstacles To Innovation: A Short History On The Implementation Of Extended Practice Pharmacy In Long Term Care
Mark Mercure B.Sc. (Pharm), B.C.G.P., EPPh., Manager, Pharma-Medic Services
Mark Mercure is originally from Fort Frances, Ontario. Go Muskies! He completed his bachelor's degree in pharmacy from the University of Manitoba in 2006. After graduating, he was tricked by Shoppers Drug Mart into taking a job in Dryden Ontario, the sworn enemy of the people of Fort Frances. Mark then got married and returned to Manitoba where he really belongs. He took a job as a relief pharmacist with Super Thrifty Drugs, where he had the wonderful opportunity to work in many beautiful small towns around this great province, while occasionally being banished to the strange land of Nunavut. During these travels, Mark worked on obtaining his Certification as a Geriatric Pharmacist from the CCGP. In 2013, Mark became the pharmacy manager of Pharma-Medic Services, a consulting pharmacy which serviced five personal care homes in Brandon. Mark is happily married to Lindsay with two beautiful daughters, Sienna and Paisley. His truck still has a license plate frame that says "Love them Muskies!"
With the introduction of the new Pharmaceutical Act in 2014, Mark was able to obtain his designation as an extended practice pharmacist with a specialty in Geriatric Pharmacy. This is when things started to get weird...
Mark will be speaking about his attempts to bring extended practice pharmacists into the world of long term care in Manitoba, and about the successes and failures encountered along the way.