Keynote speaker: Ethical Controversies in Hospital Pharmacies

Jean-François Bussières

Jean-François Bussières
"He obtained his B.Pharm in 1988 and his M.B.A. at McGill University in Montreal in 1992. In 1996, he became head of the pharmacy department at the Sainte-Justine Mother-Child CHUM (University Hospital Center). He is clinical professor at the faculty of pharmacy of the Université de Montréal and author of more than 125 written publications. He has received many prizes such as the Excellence prize in management at Sainte-Justine Hospital and some other excellence prizes from the Canadian Hospital Pharmacists Society. He won the APES-Glaxo Welcome grant for a training course in Pharmacoeconomics at University of Arizona and the HMR prize for his exceptional contribution to education at the pharmacy faculty of the Université de Montréal in 1999 and 2001. He sits on the Canadian Hospital Pharmacy Redaction Report Committee and on many professional practice committees. His fields of interests include management practices in health systems, pharmaceutical legislation, ethics, mother-child pharmacotherapy and optimal drug use. His actual challenge: specialization in pharmacy."

Questioning, argumentation, analysis and debating concerning various current issues and controversies in the field of hospital pharmacy.