About Us
Our mission is to serve our clients/patients, serve our employees, and serve the profession of pharmacy. We care deeply about the people around us and want to provide them with the best care possible.
George Jansen
Pharmacist / Owner
George has a background in geriatric pharmacy and senior care. He has received his certification as a respiratory educator and is TEACH trained in smoking cessation with a University of Toronto certification. He also has certification for Pharmacy Management of Oral Anticoagulation Therapy from the University of Waterloo that allows him to provide point-of-care management for warfarin patients.
Alyssa Thomas
Staff Pharmacist
Alyssa graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Doctor of Pharmacy and a Bachelor of Science in 2016. She earned her designation as a Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE) in 2019. Her areas of interest are Diabetes and Travel Medicine.
Maulin Patel
Staff Pharmacist
Maulin graduated January of 2010 from Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University in India receiving his Bachelor of pharmacy from India in 2012. He went on to become a licensed pharmacist in February of 2021 in Alberta and in Ontario in July of the same year. Maulin has worked at West End Pharmacy since October of 2021. His areas of interest include senior care, diabetes management and chronic medication management. Maulin provides pharmacy services in English, Hindi and his native tongue Gujarati.
Serving the Stratford Community
West End Pharmacy is an active member of the Stratford Community. We strive to make Stratford a better and healthier community for all. We regularly provide financial support to L’arche Stratford. Shelterlink, Stratford Festival, Optimism Place and in kind support to Choices for Change. We are happy to entertain requests of support for local registered charities.
Land Acknowledgement
West End Pharmacy acknowledges that the land on which we live, work, and gather, throughout history, has been home to the Haudenosaunee Longhouse peoples, and more recently, the Anishinaabe.
Those of us who are settlers are grateful for the opportunity to come together, and we thank all the generations of Indigenous peoples who have taken care of this land. We believe that this acknowledgement is important because it fairly and rightly recognizes Indigenous peoples as the caretakers of this land for over 13,000 years. We pay respect to the elders, past, present, and future, and acknowledge the presence and resilience of our neighbors, friends, and partners as members of a sovereign nation.
The land we inhabit is identified as the Huron Tract in treaty #29 which was signed on July 10, 1827 by the Crown, and recognizes the Anishinaabe people as signatories. We believe that we are all treaty people and acknowledge there is still much for us to do, as settlers, to honour this treaty and reconcile the injustices perpetuated today.
This land is sacred. It is part of the Dish with One Spoon Covenant, an agreement between the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and the Anishinaabe peoples to peaceably share resources and welcome in newcomers as they entered Turtle Island. The bowl or dish represents what is now Southern Ontario. Those who share this territory eat out of the dish with only one spoon. That means we all share the responsibility of ensuring the dish is never empty, which includes taking care of the land and the creatures with whom we share it.