The BC Pharmacy Association returns to downtown Vancouver for our 2026 Annual Conference at the Westin Bayshore overlooking Coal Harbour and Stanley Park. The event will be a multi-day event with two days of speakers on Friday and Saturday along with a tradeshow and our annual Excellence in Pharmacy Awards gala.
Register NowOur 2026 Annual Conference will be taking place in the Coal Harbour area of Vancouver, British Columbia, on the traditional territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
We thank the Squamish Nation for opening our conference with a territorial welcome.
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Tune in for a message from B.C.'s Minister of Health, Josie Osborne.
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Like a rowing crew that must work in perfect sync, the best teams are united by trust, shared purpose, and real human connection. Kevin’s Arctic expedition shows how these qualities build powerful cultures where people—and performance—thrive.
Learning Outcomes:
- Apply a three-part resilience framework — Purpose, Partnership, and Positivity — to identify at least one concrete action for strengthening their personal or team resilience in response to current workplace challenges.
- Use the Pause-Label-Reframe technique to recognize and redirect stress or fear responses when navigating high-pressure decisions in their professional practice.
This keynote inspires teams to work better together—and achieve more—by connecting with purpose.
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Discussion of the recent work in the Ministry of Health's Pharmaceutical, Laboratory and Blood Services Division.
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- Update on Ministry of Health initiatives regarding pharmacy.
- Vision for pharmacy future role regarding primary care.
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Ministry of Health
Join us for a multi-perspective discussion on the role the public and private payers in Canada’s health-care system. This session features insights from industry leaders Anar Dossa (Pacific Blue Cross), Erin Crump (Sun Life Health), and John Capelli (Ministry of Health).
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- Describe the critical economic and health-care trends affecting plan sponsors, public and private payers, and Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs).
- Describe how these stakeholders are adapting and responding to financial and health-care system challenges, and what that means for pharmacies.
- Describe initiatives by payers and PBMs to integrate pharmacist expertise, expanded scope of practice, and professional services into their operating models.
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BC Ministry of Health
Join our panelists to explore the science, disease burden and practice implementation of respiratory immunization in BC pharmacy. This session features three focused segments highlighting key lessons learned from the recent influenza campaign, clinical pearls on RSV disease burden and how pharmacy‑led respiratory immunization is shaping client outcomes, strengthening the health system, and defining pharmacy’s leadership in disease prevention.
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- Understand influenza and RSV epidemiology, disease burden, and current NACI recommendations.
- Explore influenza vaccine mismatch and the clinical role of enhanced influenza vaccines.
- Differentiate public and private respiratory vaccine pathways, including RSV and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines.
- Apply pharmacy-led strategies to integrate respiratory immunization into routine client care and strengthen pharmacy leadership in disease prevention.
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This practical session demonstrates real-world implementation of BC pharmacists’ expanded scope through measurable community pharmacy models. Case-based examples include proactive respiratory vaccination programs, pharmacist-initiated renal monitoring in diabetes, and medication reviews for patients living with mental illness. Participants will learn workflow design, documentation strategies, and interprofessional collaboration approaches that translate scope authority into sustainable, everyday clinical care.
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- Leverage BC pharmacists’ expanded scope of practice to implement proactive respiratory vaccination programs by identifying eligible patients and recommending influenza, COVID-19, pneumococcal, and RSV vaccines using current Canadian and BC clinical guidance to improve adult immunization coverage.
- Apply pharmacist-initiated laboratory testing within BC scope of practice to support renal monitoring in patients with diabetes, including identifying appropriate patients, ordering relevant lab tests, and interpreting results to guide medication optimization and patient safety.
- Utilize pharmacist-initiated eForms and documentation pathways to support structured, outcome-focused medication reviews (e.g., COPD), including identifying therapy gaps, initiating Special Authority requests where appropriate, and collaborating with prescribers to implement guideline-based care.
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