User:Cedilooms/sandbox/Morẹ́nikẹ́ Ọláòṣebìkan

Morẹ́nikẹ́ Ẹniọlá Ọláòṣebìkan is a Nigerian-Canadian pharmaceutical manufacturing inventor, licensed clinical pharmacist and public health advocate. She is CEO of Kemet Group, which is developing KemplexTM- a modular, on-demand essential medicines manufacturing system to address real-time drug shortages in low resource settings. Morenike initiated the Ribbon Rouge Foundation in 2006.

Education and Certification
In 2001, Ọláòṣebìkan received an Advanced Level General Certificate of Education (GCE) from London, England’s Woodhouse College. She received a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree, with First Class Honours, from the University of Alberta in 2009. Ọláòṣebìkan became included on the Alberta College of Pharmacists’ Clinical Register Pharmacist in 2012 and received Additional Prescribing Authorization in 2013. She was a certified Canadian Diabetes Educator from 2011 to 2016 and became an Alberta Health Services Quitcore Tobacco Cessation Facilitator in 2014. In 2017, she received a Social Innovation Certificate from Simon Fraser University and completed Getting to Maybe, a graduate-level social innovation residency at The Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity.

Career
Ọláòṣebìkan was an Instructor and Mentor at the Bredin Center for Learning, which offers employment training and services to unemployed/underemployed Canadians and newcomers to Canada. From 2013 to 2015, Ọláòṣebìkan taught more than 26 foreign-trained pharmacists in various aspects of drug therapeutics, pharmacy ethics and jurisprudence.

Ọláòṣebìkan has been a Quitcore Facilitator at the Alberta Quits Tobacco Reduction Program since 2014. She has implemented various tobacco reduction programs at her pharmacy and co-created a tobacco cessation program with Alberta Health Services for women recovering from addictions, mental health concerns and traumas. Since 2016, Ọláòṣebìkan served as a Steering Committee and Stigma Work Stream member for Alberta’s STBBIs, Operational, Strategic & Action Plan.

Ọláòṣebìkan was a Strategy Coordinator, and subsequently Community Engagement and Innovation Coordinator at the Alberta Community Council on HIV (ACCH) from 2018 to 2019. ACCH is a non-profit, provincial member driven network supporting community-based responses to HIV, Sexually Transmitted and Blood Borne Infections (STBBIs) and Sexual Health via advocacy, harm reduction, education and health promotion.

Ọláòṣebìkan has been the pharmacist owner of a Shoppers Drug Mart Pharmacy in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada since 2012. She has been a Preceptor for the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences since 2012.

Ọláòṣebìkan founded the Ribbon Rouge Foundation in 2006 and was its President & Executive Director from 2013 to 2020. She helped grow membership from 13 volunteers to 180 volunteers and raised $1.1M for the Foundation in 2020. The Foundation is a nonprofit corporation under the Societies Act that focuses on health equity and facilitates social justice through the Arts. Serving African, Caribbean and Black people in Alberta, Canada, the Foundation facilitates systems change in the structural and social factors that lead to poorer health outcomes. The Foundation received a ScotiaBank Home-Game Changer award in 2014 and received the Canadian Pharmacists Association Patient Care Achievement Award for Health Promotion in 2017.

Ọláòṣebìkan founded Kemet Group in 2016. Kemet is developing a scalable Industry 4.0 system that can produce medications in small or large volumes, with the flexibility to supply custom-made medications. The components of Kemet’s system can be set up anywhere in the world to produce generic drugs, supplying just-in-time medications to address critical global shortages.

Since 2015, Ọláòṣebìkan has been an organizational member of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Black, African and Caribbean Network, a national network of organizations, individuals and other stakeholders who are dedicated to responding to issues related to HIV in Canada’s African, Caribbean and Black communities. She served as a member of the University of Alberta’s Appeal Board from 2005 to 2009 and as the President and a member of the Kamit African Caribbean Society from 2004 to 2009. She has been a member of the Alberta Pharmacists’ Association since 2012.

From 2014 to 2017, she was a member of Shoppers Drug Mart’s Community Investment Committee, leading 63 stores in two districts to support local health related organizations. From 2015 to 2017, she was a member of Shoppers Drug Mart’s Professional Practice Committee, where she helped lead 157 stores across Alberta by coordinating various educational tools and programs to improve professional pharmacy practice.

Since 2016, she has been a University of Alberta Clinical Academic Colleague, serving as a volunteer educator, preceptor and mentor to students at the faculty and foreign exchange students. Ọláòṣebìkan has been an Alberta College of Pharmacists and Alberta Pharmacists’ Association Apex (Alberta Pharmacy Excellence) Awards Committee Member since 2017, reviewing nominations for each award category and recommending one candidate from each for approval.

She has been Vice Chair of the Alberta College of Pharmacists’ Competence Committee from 2017 to 2020, advising on the development and maintenance of a continuing competence program and the enhancement of professional services provision.

Ọláòṣebìkan was the Vice Chair of Engineers without Borders in 2018, where she helped to establish strategic direction and priorities and approve strategic and operational plans; annual budgets; quarterly and annual financial reports; committees’ Terms of Reference; and chairs and members.

Recognition

 * Ọláòṣebìkan was the University of Alberta’s Preceptor of the Year in 2015.
 * In 2017, she received Avenue Magazine Edmonton’s 40 under 40 Award
 * Campus Alberta’s Health Outcomes & Public Health Award
 * Canadian Public Health Association’s Patient Care Achievement Award for Health Promotion
 * Recognized by Canadian Parliament with a Canada 150 Pin.

Publications and Presentations

 * Hughes CA, Freitas A, Olaosebikan M, Foisy M, Shafran S. Success Rates of Antiretroviral Regimens Including Tenofovir/Abacavir or Didanosine/Abacavir Backbones. Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol 2007;18 (suppl B):62B
 * Hand book of HIV drug therapy (2011 edition). Morenike Olaosebikan, Pharmacy student, Northern Alberta HIV Program, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton (Oral Contraceptive interaction table).
 * Architecture for Social Change, Lagos Architects Forum. May 11, 2018
 * Campus Alberta Health Outcome & Public Health Annual Forum. May 9, 2018
 * STBBIs in Alberta: The Role of Pharmacists to Turn the Dial on the Outbreak. RxA Spring Professional Development Conference. March 3, 2018
 * ART is the Cure for HIV. SFU Social Innovation Certificate Final Project Video Presentation, Vancouver, Canada, 2017