Our Lead Faculty

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

At PharmAchieve 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 the lead instructor of PharmAchieve. She 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). In addition to her hospital practice, Negeen has worked full time as a retail pharmacist in both Canada and the United States.
  
  
• Hooman Katirai, manages the operations of PharmAchieve. He holds two masters degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and completed a 3 year traineeship at Harvard Medical School. He has managed large healthcare projects for institutions such as the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (MOHLTC), Cancer Care Ontario, and the University Health Network (UHN) with scopes exceeding 100 hospitals, 9000 physicians and 1 million patients. In addition to running the operations of PharmAchieve, Hooman serves as a manager within PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP's eHealth practice.

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 instructors at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Pharmacy. Our team collectively has certifications in geriatrics, asthma, diabetes, COPD, neonatology and anti-coagulation. Many work at leading hospitals and retail organizations. Each brings together their unique expertise and passion for teaching the next generation to improve counseling.

Our Standardized Patients

All of PharmAchieve's Standardized Patients work or have worked for the standardized patient programs of local medical schools or government mandated 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 rate interaction with Standardized Patients as an highly valuable part of their learning experience.