Session recording
Navigating the Licensure Process (October 16, 2024)
This session provides essential knowledge and practical guidance to help unlicensed IPGs navigate the licensure process. It provides an overview of common pathways to licensure, Pharmacist Gateway Canada, and key considerations for IPGs as they pursue licensure as pharmacists. It also includes information about the roles of regulators, associations and other key organizations essential to becoming a pharmacist and practicing pharmacy in Canada.
Theresa Schopf (she/her)
CPhA Advisory Committee co-chair and IPG Consultant
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Theresa Schopf
Theresa Schopf’s pharmacy career began over 40 years ago following her graduation from Dalhousie University with a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy degree. As a pharmacist in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador and Ontario, Theresa worked in a variety of healthcare settings including community, hospital, long-term care and the Canadian Forces.
In 2000 she obtained a Master of Business Administration from the University of Ottawa and, at the same time, began a new career path as a public servant with Health Canada. There she had a wide variety of opportunities and experiences such as working in healthcare related areas with First Nations and Inuit Health, leading the development of policy and regulations for narcotics and other controlled substances and contributing to the Government of Canada’s response to the major earthquake and tsunami in Japan in March 2011 when she was acting Director of the Radiation Protection Bureau.
Seeking a new challenge, Theresa joined the National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities (NAPRA) in April 2014, to implement Pharmacists’ Gateway Canada. Theresa worked with that program for 9 years and during that time, completed a successful project to support international pharmacy graduates, funded by the Government of Canada’s Foreign Recognition Program. This project included a mentorship program and a diagnostic tool and learning modules, the latter which is still available through NAPRA.
Theresa retired from NAPRA in June 2023, continues to work in the realm of pharmacy regulation as a consultant and support the pharmacy profession.