Samier Kamar
Pharmacy
Community Pharmacist / Owner
High Street Guardian Pharmacy
Samier Kamar is the pharmacist, manager, and owner at two independent pharmacies, caring for approximately 5,000 patients: High St Guardian Pharmacy in Peterborough, Ontario and Dellar’s IDA Drug Store in Tweed, Ontario. He was a Professor in the Registered Pharmacy Technician program at the School of Health and Wellness, Fleming College, in Peterborough. He was also a faculty member, as the clinical instructor, lead for medication therapy management courses, at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto. He has been a speaker and keynote at the Pharmacy U national conferences in both Toronto and Vancouver as well as a national judge for Pharmacy U. He has also been a keynote at Ontario’s first ever registered pharmacy technician conference. He’s also presented at vascular 2023, a national medical conference. Samier is an active member of thrombosis Canada, and has authored the clinical guide for rivaroxaban. Post Covid pandemic, Samier has been active in the realm of covid outpatient therapies, having presented at a national pharmacy webinar by Pfizer and provincially as part of the Ontario Pharmacist Association as well as locally to primary care providers. He has provided clinical services to different pharmaceutical companies and medical clinics. Samier is a PharmD graduate from the University of Toronto. His interest in finding innovative ways to serve his patients and community led him to be an early adopter of the telemedicine platform in Ontario pre COVID as well as one of the first in Ontario to gain access to Connecting Ontario through the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care as part of the initial pilot program. Samier is also heavily engaged in health advocacy work with refugees and Canadian newcomers, along with unattached patients, working to ensure that they can better navigate and access health services and prevent them from slipping through the cracks of our healthcare system, leading him to receive a national business innovation award. Samier is a clinical reviewer for MapFlow, a provincial web based clinical support tool aimed at providing Ontario pharmacists tools and guidelines for minor ailment assessment and prescribing. Samier is an active writer for the Canadian healthcare network.ca, sharing clinical practice cases and pearls to a national group of physicians and pharmacists with open discussions.