Suzanne Solven Email & Phone Number

Suzanne Solven is a Registrar and CEO at College of Pharmacists of British Columbia based in Canada, North America. Suzanne Solven is the Registrar and CEO of the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia. Suzanne brings over 25 years of strategic leadership experience to the position. Suzanne provides overall strategic and operational leadership to the College in working with the Board to develop strategic plans to advance the College regulatory mandate and mission, provides advice on policy and promotes positive relationships with a diverse group of health sector stakeholders. Prior to her work at the College, Suzanne was the Associate vice President of Audit, Investigations and Quality Assurance at Pacific Blue Cross, where she led the fraud investigation branch and has developed and implemented a 5 year Anti-Fraud Strategy. Suzanne also led the Internal Audit branch to ensure appropriate controls are in place from an enterprise wide, holistic viewpoint. Prior to her work at Pacific Blue Cross, Suzanne was the Deputy Registrar of the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia for over 9 years. In her capacity as Deputy Registrar, led the development of the award winning DrugSafe BC Initiative, changes to the ownership provisions in the pharmacy legislation, successful undercover pharmacy investigations and first in Canada successful investigative collaboration with the US Food and Drug Administration. Prior to her work at the College, Suzanne was employed by the government of British Columbia for over 13 years in the positions of Executive Director and Senior Pharmacist of the BC PharmaCare program. While with government Suzanne led inter-professional drug policy initiatives such as evidenced based drug review processes, limited use drug coverage, special authorization expert committees and standardized product listing agreements. She was also a provincial partner in the development of the Common Drug Review. Suzanne is a current member of the Alumni UBC Advisory Council and UBC Therapeutics Initiative Oversight committee, past member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC Prescription Review Panel, past Co-Chair of the National Pharmaceuticals Strategy, and past chair of the Advisory Committee on Pharmaceuticals, Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health.