====== Lizanne Béïque ======

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**Lizanne Béïque** is a Canadian [[public health]] official based in [[canada:ontario:Ottawa]], [[canada:Ontario]]. She is a Senior Policy Analyst at the [[Public Health Agency of Canada]] (PHAC) in the Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control Branch.

===== History =====

==== Education ====

Béïque attended the [[Université de Montréal]] for her Bachelor of Pharmacy and the [[University of Toronto]] for her Doctor of Pharmacy. At some point, she received a Certificate in Epidemiology in Public Health Practice from the [[Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health]]. She graduated with her Master in Education from the [[University of Ottawa]] in 2018.

==== Career ====

Béïque worked as Scientific Information Officer at [[pharmaceutical_companies:Berlex Canada]] from 1995-1997. She founded [[PharmEd Consultants]] in 1999,((//PharmEd Consultants Inc.// AllBiz. Retrieved March 19, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.03.19-082358/https://www.allbiz.ca/fr/pharmed-consultants-inc-613-235-2331)) and served as Director of Research and as a Clinical Pharmacist in [[HIV]] and Family Medicine at [[University of Ottawa]] Health Services from 2000-2004. From 2005-2013, she worked as an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine.

She then worked as a HIV Clinical Pharmacist Specialist at the [[Ottawa Hospital]] until 2005, when she was promoted to Clinical Director of the Clinical Investigation Unit at the [[Ottawa Hospital Research Institute]] alongside her work as a Clinical Investigator in the Clinical Epidemiology Program. From 2009 to 2012, she worked as a Drug Information Pharmacist Specialist at the [[Ottawa Valley Region Drug information Service]] (OVRDIS).

In 2011, Béïque implemented the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at the Ottawa Hospital, leading the program until 2019.

Béïque started working at the [[Public Health Agency of Canada]] in October 2019.

===== Activities =====

==== Research ====

Béïque has published research funded by [[pharmaceutical_companies:Bristol-Myers Squibb]].((Béïque, L., Giguère, P., la Porte, C., & Angel, J. (2007). //Interactions between protease inhibitors and acid-reducing agents: a systematic review.// HIV Medicine, 8(6), 335–345. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-1293.2007.00482.x))

===== External links =====

  * [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizanne-b%C3%A9%C3%AFque/|LinkedIn]]
  * [[https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Lizanne-Beique-2080533486|ResearchGate]]