Who is Pierre Moreau?
Prof. Moreau was closely and actively involved in the preparation, creation, implementation, and management of three competency-based curriculum over the past two decades. During the course of his career, he developed his leadership and change management competencies to succeed in bringing the challenging task of curricular reform to fruition, in three different institutions (see below). His current career goal is to guide willing healthcare schools in the analysis of local needs, the development of a new, tailored and cutting-edge curriculum, and its successful implementation. In addition, his long and unique experience can be harnessed by providing academic leadership, accreditation preparedness and change management coaching with real-life examples and unique tools that he used throughout his career.
Biography
Prof. Moreau graduated from the school of pharmacy at Université de Montréal (UdeM) in 1988. After completing his graduate studies from the same University in cardiovascular pharmacology (N Yamaguchi and J de Champlain), he pursued his postdoctoral research training in Switzerland (TF Lüscher) and in Montréal (P Hamet). He was appointed assistant professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy of UdeM in 1997, and promoted to the rank of associate professor in 2002 and full professor in 2007. He successfully managed a well-funded and productive research laboratory in the field of hypertension and cardiovascular aging until 2014.
From 2002, he was actively involved in the transformation of the UdeM’s BPharm into the first Canadian entry-to-practice PharmD program. In 2007, he was elected Dean of the Faculty and oversaw the implementation of the new competency-based PharmD curriculum. He served as President of the Association of Deans of Pharmacy in Canada and as a board member of the Canadian Council for Accreditation of Pharmacy Programs (CCAPP).
In 2014 he was recruited by Kuwait University as Dean of the College of Pharmacy to improve pharmacy education and the profession as a whole. After developing a temporary 2-year add-on PharmD program that began in 2016, he worked on the development of a 7-year competency-based entry-to-practice PharmD introduced in 2020.
Several pedagogical and assessment innovations were embedded into this new state-of-the-art program. Although his deanship ended in 2022 (after 2 terms of 4 years), he continued to oversee the implementation of the program, which is having a huge impact on the advancement of the profession in the country.
He has been involved with the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) since 2012, and was elected as FIP-AIM chair from 2019-2023. He is currently serving as past chair of FIP-AIM. He received the fellow recognition FFIP in 2022.
From 2017 to 2019, Pierre completed an online certificate in leading innovation and change from York St-John University. It consisted of four 3-month modules (each with a long scientific essay) on 1) leadership on innovation and change, 2) the essence of leadership, 3) culture and innovation in organizations, and 4) strategic leadership.
In parallel to his work in Kuwait, and starting in 2020, he was invited as a consultant by the new School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of Ottawa (Canada). Together with a local team, he remotely contributed to the creation of a spirally integrated competency-based PharmD curriculum respecting the Canadian standards for pharmacy education. The first cohort of this new program was enrolled in September 2023. He also coached upcoming academic leaders to support the establishment of the school and the implementation of the pharmacy program.