Kevin Lam Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

• Collaborate in a multi-disciplinary model which includes transplant specialists, nurses, nurse practitioners, social workers, dietitians, discharge coordinators, and outpatient pharmacies to provide comprehensive.
• Participate in multi-disciplinary rounds with different organ transplant team as well as ASP (Antimicrobial Stewardship) rounds
• Effectively provide pharmaceutical care services which include extensive patient counseling, teaching self-medication classes, facilitating and handling applications for Exceptional Access Program and Special Access.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Supported EPIC go-live at UHN (Toronto General site) as at-the-elbow support for my pharmacist colleagues. Assisted with discovering work arounds, submit tickets for system errors, developed smart phrases to enhance day to day work flow.

Toronto, Canada Area

- Compiling comprehensive best possible medication history in the pre-admission clinic for all surgical patients - Identifying potential drug therapy problems and collaborate with patients, nurses, surgeons, anesthesiologists and family doctors - Provide patient counseling points on various topics including what medications to avoid before surgery and why.

Peel Memorial Center

- Provide pharmaceutical care in the Urgent Medical Clinic and Complex Medicine Clinic- Collaborate in a multi-disciplinary model which includes internists, specialists, nurses, and nurse practitioners to provide comprehensive but short term to intermediate care to patients in an ambulatory setting

Etobicoke, Ontario

• Provided pharmaceutical care in all different areas of the hospital, mainly ICU, CCU, cardiology and neurology
• Effectively provided pharmaceutical care through verbal communications and pharmaceutical consult notes to collaborate with other health care professionals to optimize patient care
• Demonstrated excellent patient counseling skills and educating patients
• Learned and mastered MediTech (Magic version) to perform order entries in distribution role

Burlington, Ontario

• Received "Outstanding" performance rating from preceptor for critically assessing and solving each drug related problem, as well as implementing patient care plans
• Assumed the role of a full-time Pharmacist in the face-paced Acute Medicine Unit
• Collaborated with other healthcare professionals to optimize pharmaceutical care, provide therapeutic drug monitoring, and answering drug information questions
• Learned and mastered MediTech software to efficiently perform order entries in distribution role

Ingersoll, Ontario

• Conducted MedsCheck and wrote consult notes to help physicians optimize patients' therapy
• Followed-up on patients with drug related problems to ensure safety and efficacy
• Provided OTC and prescription counselling; received positive feedback for customer satisfaction
• Presented a community health seminar on hypertension and 'The Role of a Pharmacist'

Toronto, Canada Area

• Responsible for admission BPMH/MedRec in the emergency department and the general medicine unit
• Communicated with members of the healthcare team to resolve discrepancies identified in the medication reconciliation process
• Developed a training kit for the position
• Assisted with the collection of performance measures to evaluate the success of the pilot

• Updated Pharmacy Innovation program materials such as the Seniors Fact Sheet
• Development of new clinical and professional affairs programs such as Work Well o Created research database o Developed a step by step guide o Drafted business case
• Assisted in pharmacy marketing research
• Conducted extensive literature research
• Involvement in pharmacy advocacy events

Hamilton, ON

• Scheduled and conducted MedsCheck interviews under the supervision of the pharmacist
• Improved inter-professional communication skills through writing up MedsCheck summaries
• Counselled patients on various OTC and prescription medications
• Involvement with various compounding such as veterinary, hormone therapy (suppositories, creams, capsules) and sterile preparations
• Compounded and administered methadone under the pharmacist’s supervision
• Assisted with the organization of seasonal flu shot clinic as well as diabetes education clinic

• Responsible for running annual vitamin drive and Moustache for Aids
• Duties includes: calling pharmacies for possible sponsorship, expanding the number of pharmacies on the call list, collecting donations from pharmacies
• Gained knowledge about the AIDS community and further developed my interpersonal and communication abilities

• Facilitated the management of inventory in collaboration with pharmacy technicians
• Learned how to use and navigate through the Nexxys software
• Improved communication and interpersonal skills by interacting with patients from a variety of ethnicity
• Involved with the distribution process from receiving prescriptions to dispensing medications