Our Lead Faculty

PharmAchieve has quickly developed a stellar reputation for delivering high-quality training for pharmacy graduates from abroad. We are committed to our students' success and go the extra mile because we care.

At PharmaAchieve we believe that to achieve your best you need to learn from the best. Consequently we only use highly qualified instructors who passionate about teaching and are themselves committed to excellence.

• Negeen Katirai, PharmD, RPh, is a licensed pharmacist in Ontario, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts. She currently practices as a perinatal pharmacist at Mount Sinai Hospital (a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto) and prior held a "Senior Pharmacist" position at Brigham & Woman's Hospital (a teaching hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School). She has practiced in retail settings in both Canada and the United States, including a 1000 prescription per day store.
  
  
• Hooman Katirai, holds two masters degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and trained  for 3 years at Harvard Medical School. He is a consultant to the Healthcare sector and has served as the IM/IT lead for projects with scopes exceeding 100 hospitals, 9000 physicians and 1,000,000 patients and budgets ranging from $2 million to $55 million. His clients include some of Canada's largest healthcare institutions including the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (MOHLTC), the Toronto-based University Health Network (UHN), and William Osler Health Sciences Center.

Our Pharmacists

PharmAchieve only employs licensed pharmacists to serve as assessors. All of our assessors work in positions that require them to counsel patients daily. Four of our staff have PharmD degrees; several are also teaching assistants or instructors at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Pharmacy. Our team collectively has certifications in Geriatrics, Asthma, Diabetes, COPD, Anti-coagulation. Many work at leading hospitals and retail organizations such as Shopper's Drug Mart. Each brings their unique touch to help students improve their counselling.

Our Standardized Patients

All of PharmAchieve's Standardized Patients work or have worked for the standardized patient programs of local medical schools or foreign health professional evaluation programs. There are two different levels of Standardized Patients: those who can act as patients, and those who are also trained to give feedback. All of PharmAchieve's Standardized Patients are trained to give feedback. In satisfaction surveys PharmAchieve students consistently rated interaction with Standardized Patients as an highly valuable part of their learning experience.