Rare Diseases

Eric Lun, BSc, BScPharm, ACPR, PharmD

In his current role within Pharmaceutical Services Division, Ministry of Health Services, Eric leads the Drug Intelligence branch. The branch consists of several operating units including Formulary Management, Special Authority, Clinical Decision Support, and the Alzheimer’s Drug Therapy Initiative. Formulary Management is responsible for the PharmaCare drug review process and benefit listing decisions while the Special Authority program is responsible for adjudicating requests for limited coverage drugs. Prior to joining PSD, Eric worked with the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority as Regional Coordinator, Medication Use Management, responsible for managing the Health Authority’s drug formulary. Eric has also worked as a financial research analyst for the biotech and healthcare sector (TD Securities), as a clinical pharmacist (Vancouver General Hospital), a Drug Use Evaluation pharmacist (University of Alberta Hospital), and a pharmacy lecturer (University of Technology, Jamaica).