Soon, Judith - University of British Columbia - Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

个人简介

Dr. Judith Soon is an assistant professor (part-time) in the UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, an associate member of the Collaboration for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE), and the director of the Community Pharmacist Research Network. Outside the Faculty, she is an associate member of the UBC School of Population & Public Health and the UBC Department of Family Practice. Following her BSc(Pharm) degree at UBC, she completed a hospital pharmacy residency at St. Paul’s Hospital, practiced on an interprofessional geriatric team, and as a drug information specialist at the Drug and Poison Information Centre. Subsequently, she developed and maintained a province-wide consultant clinical pharmacy program for 55 long-term care facilities serviced by community pharmacies. During this time, she initiated an innovative multi-centre adverse drug reaction monitoring program within the long-term care setting, and was awarded fellow status in the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists. She returned to graduate school at UBC and completed studies with a focus on pharmaceutical outcomes research, and a diploma (epidemiology and biostatistics) at McGill University with a speciality in pharmacoepidemiology. Dr. Soon received numerous scholarships, including a MRC-CDMA-CEM Studentship in Pharmacoepidemiology. Prior to joining the Faculty, she taught in the Entry-Level PharmD program in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Washington. Outside the university, Dr. Soon is actively involved with Youth Science Canada, a national organization that increases awareness and involvement of more than 500,000 young Canadians in science, engineering and technology projects each year. Dr. Soon has been the chief judge of a regional science fair for more than 15 years, and in 2005, was the chief judge at the Canada Wide Science Fair held in Vancouver. Currently, she is the national judge-in-chief for Youth Science Canada, providing oversight for judging and ethics at the 100 regional science fairs across the country. In 2011, she received the Distinguished Service Award from Youth Science Canada.

研究领域

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Dr. Soon's current research projects include the following: Experiences with Contraception among Youth in Northern BC Despite public health efforts, pregnancy rates among teens in rural and northern British Columbia are more than 100% higher than the provincial average. Many northern youth may be facing barriers to accessing and using contraception effectively. Ethnographic studies recently conducted in Fort St. James and Vanderhoof describe the perspectives of youth in accessing and using contraception, investigate the ways that gender, place and culture concomitantly affect youth’s experiences with contraception; and develop recommendations to tailor and target contraception interventions intended for youth in northern BC. Knowledge dissemination of the findings are currently underway, with the creation of a YouTube video for youth, meetings with senior public health and medical directors in the Northern Health Authority, and updates on youth contraception for public health and Aboriginal nurses. (Funded by the BC Medical Services Foundation and CIHR.) Effectiveness of two emergency contraception agents While hormonal emergency contraceptives (ECs) have the potential to reduce the risk of pregnancy, the comparative effectiveness of the Yuzpe regimen (estrogen and progestin) and the progestin-only levonorgestrel regimen is not yet well established. Dr. Soon's lab is using prescription, diagnostic, and reproductive health information from linkage of health databases to compare the effectiveness of the two EC regimens in a cohort of women who received ECs from pharmacists in British Columbia. This is the first population-based investigation related to ECs in the routine practice setting. (Funded by CIHR.)