Participant Advisory Committee (PAC) Members
Jaris Swidrovich
University of Toronto
Dr. Jaris Swidrovich (he/him/they/them) is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, in the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto. He is a Saulteaux First Nations and Ukrainian pharmacist from Yellow Quill First Nation (Treaty 4, SK) and is the son of a 60s Scoop Survivor and grandson and great-grandson of Indian Residential School Survivors. He is the first Indigenous faculty member in pharmacy in Canada and is the founder and Chair of the Indigenous Pharmacy Professionals of Canada (IPPC). He received his Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from the University of Saskatchewan and a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Toronto and is currently a PhD candidate in Education at the University of Saskatchewan studying Indigenous peoples’ experiences with pharmacy education in Canada. As a Two Spirit and queer person who also lives with a disability, he is deeply invested in equity, diversity, and inclusion work, particularly 2SLGBTQ+ and Indigenous research and education, as well as service and advocacy to, for, and with communities and community-based organizations.