Emily Musing is an Associate Professor (status) with the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy (LDFP) and Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation (IHPME), University of Toronto (UofT). Until her recent retirement, she was the Chief Patient Safety Officer and VP, Clinical at the University Health Network, providing leadership for Pharmacy, Infection Prevention and Control, Antimicrobial Stewardship and Patient Safety. She led UHN’s Caring Safely initiative and COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy. Emily was LDFP’s inaugural Leader-in-Residence for 2023-24 and continues to coordinate the Leadership Intensive for the Faculty.
Emily received her Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from the LDFP, UofT (1983) and completed a post-graduate Hospital Pharmacy Practice Residency at Mount Sinai Hospital. She attained her Master of Health Science in Health Administration from IHPME, UofT (2003).
Emily was previously President of the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists, Chief Administrator for the Pharmacy Examining Board of Canada Toronto Objective Structured Clinical Examination and an assessor for the Ontario College of Pharmacists’ Quality Assurance Practice Review. She served as Vice Chair of the Death Investigation Oversight Council reporting to the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services. Emily sat on the boards of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Canada, the Canadian Patient Safety Institute, Canadian Hospital Pharmacy Residency Board and was the Executive Editor for the Hospital Pharmacy in Canada Report. She also sat on the UofT/Toronto Academic Health Science Network Joint Task Force for Valuing Academic Performance, and on the Avoidable Hospitalization Advisory Panel reporting to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.
Within IHPME, Emily sits on the Program Modernization Committee, participates in admissions interviews and has been a tutor, lecturer, panelist and project judge in the MHsc Health Administration’s Policy, Health Economics, and Fundamentals courses as well as in the MSc in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety.