Improving Adolescent Medication Adherence
Channel: Children's Healthcare Canada
Date: 2013-09-28

CAPHC's Patient Safety Collaborative is very excited to start this year's webinar series off with a presentation on improving medication compliance.  Although medication adherence is a concern for all ages, this presentation will focus on adolescents.

Dr. Natalie Dayneka, a pharmacist at Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, will introduce the topic of medication adherence as a safety concern.  The objectives of the presentation are:

To explore the barriers raised that impede adolescent adherence to life-sustaining chronic medications
To share possible strategies which may augment adolescent medication adherence
To debate the advantages and disadvantages of adherence tools employed to affect medication adherence in the adolescent population

Presenter Bio:

 Natalie Dayneka  B.Sc.Phm. ACPR, Pharm.D., FCSHP

Dr. Dayneka is a pharmacist at CHEO.  Natalie has focused her career on pediatric pharmacy while specializing in the outpatient area of HIV and recently adding the inpatient areas of Cardiology, Surgery and Acute Pain.  

Natalie has served as a pharmacist way up north in Churchill, Manitoba, down south in Philadelphia and at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. She has collaborated on pediatric national and international publications.   She is a past recipient of the Pharmacy Practice Commitment to Care Award for Hospital Pharmacy, and is a fellow of Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacy.   

For over 15 years, Natalie has counselled many patients and their parents as a member of CHEO's award winning HIV team.  Natalie says that she feels very fortunate to have the opportunity to now also work with the surgical patients and their families plus liaison with the Acute Pain Service.