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To provide excellence and leadership in patient care, research and teaching. Through the activities of our members, all patients at Vancouver Hospital & Health Sciences Centre (VHHSC) will receive pharmaceutical care exceeding the standards established by the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists and the B.C. College of Pharmacists. The academic role of the pharmacy department will continue to expand to facilitate the training of future members. Research activities will continue to increase and these efforts will complement the provision of patient care services. In general, our members will establish themselves as an authority on the majority of pharmacothera*eutic decisions that occur at VHHSC. We are the largest hospital pharmacy department in the province of British Columbia and provides distributional and clinical services to the following hospital sites: Vancouver General Hospital, UBC Hospital, and GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre. A large staff of dedicated pharmacists and pharmacy technicians provide pharmaceutical care to patients in the institution. The department employs approximately 200 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees which include pharmacists who perform distributional and clinical duties as well as pharmacists with advanced clinical and supervisory roles. Pharmacists work in specialized areas such as Bone Marrow Transplantation, Solid Organ Transplantation, Clinical Drug Research, Ambulatory care, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Critical Care, Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Infectious Diseases, Emergency Medicine, Trauma, and Renal Dialysis. The main pharmacy at the Vancouver General Hospital is open from 0630 to 2400 hours. There are 3 additional satellite dispensaries that - Bone marrow transplant unit - Solid organ transplant outpatients The pharmacy at the UBC Hospital has a unit-dose distribution system and provides clinical services to all its patients while the pharmacy at the GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre has a traditional distribution system. We are actively involved in the training of undergraduate and