In every challenge there lies opportunity: rise of the phoenix.

JCPH – Vol. 62, n 6 – novembre–décembre 2009 528 difficult to find, but they will soon be replaced by people with new skills, for example, running a logistic, production, or distribution system or serving as a clinical practitioner-leader, akin to the leaders among our physician and nursing colleagues. Pharmacist specialties and their corresponding training and credentialling will form the basis of practice leadership for this new category of leaders. Registered pharmacy technicians will serve as the operational leaders of the future, fully freeing pharmacists to be practitioners. The advent of new clinical pharmacist leaders will represent a “rise from the ashes” as their partnerships with physicians and nurses produce a new and comprehensive model of conjoint care. And just imagine: all of this will be achieved during a significant downturn in the economy and the resultant restructuring in Canadian health care. Many see these opportunities today and are working quietly to ensure that the rise from the ashes is strong, substantial, and enduring. Others do not yet see the opportunities. To fully realize the possibilities, we need to find the early leaders among our pharmacist, physician, and nursing peers and work with them as a team to deliver well-structured, efficient, and high-value clinical services to the patients, for whom we all care so deeply.