Professor Kyle Wilby

Kyle John Wilby is a Professor and Director (Head of School) of the College of Pharmacy at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is originally from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and obtained his Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from the University of Saskatchewan (2008), a hospital residency from Vancouver Coastal Health (2009), a post-graduate PharmD from the University of British Columbia (2012), and a PhD in Health Professions Education from Maastricht University (2019).  He has worked across the globe in public health and university settings, including positions in Ghana, Qatar, New Zealand, and now Halifax.  He is a member of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community and has provided education and training to pharmacy team members and other health care professionals on health equity and 2SLGBTQIA+ health across the world.

Kyle’s work in educational research transcends instructional design, student wellness, assessment, accreditation, and program evaluation. He has led curricular development and reform in Qatar, New Zealand, and Canada and has been a consultant for many institutions and accreditation entities in Canada, the United States, New Zealand, Australia, and the Middle East. His work is now primarily focused on modernizing licensing pathways for domestic and internationally trained pharmacy graduates using programmatic assessment models and improving assessment in experiential learning through programmatic and saturation approaches to determine practice readiness. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers and is an Associate Editor for the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education.

Kyle loves to travel, is working on learning Arabic, and has a LinkedIn-famous cat named Ash who relocated with him from New Zealand.