MSA EXECUTIVE 2024-2025
Get to Know our MSA Executive Committee
We strive for representation and balance across sites, disciplines, and gender. Members of the MSA executive are elected annually from amongst eligible active MSA membership.
DR. TOMAS VAN HELDER
MSA President (elected 2023)
Anesthesia, Hamilton General Hospital
DR. BILL RISTEVSKI
MSA Vice President (elected 2023)
Orthopedic Surgery, Hamilton General Hospital
DR. SIMERPREET SANDHANWALIA
MSA Secretary/Treasurer (elected 2023)
Assistant Clinical Professor McMaster University
Department of Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine
Emergency Physician Hamilton Health Sciences
Co-Founder Frontline Connect Canada
Co-Founder South Asian Covid Task Force
DR. DEEPAK DATH
MSA Past President (elected 2021)
General Surgery & Hepatobiliary Surgery, Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Centre
DR. ILUN YANG
MSA Member-at-Large
General Surgery, Juravinski Hospital
Dr. David Sjaarda
WLMH MSA President
DR. ANTHONY CROCCO
MAC CHAIR
DR. PETER DARBY
MSA Member-at-Large
Anaesthesia, McMaster University Medical Centre
DR. DERECK HUNT
MSA Member-at-Large, MSA Past President
(elected 2017-2019)
Internal Medicine, Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Centre
DR. KAMYAR KAHNAMOUI
MSA Member-at-Large
General Surgery, Hamilton General Hospital
DR. AMEYA KULKARNI
MSA Member-at-Large
Diagnostic Imaging and Breast Assessment Center, Juravinski Hospital
DR. NATHALIE SCHINDLER
MSA Member-at-Large
Pediatrics ER, MUMC
DR. JOHN MERNAGH
MSA Member-at-Large. MSA Previous Past President (elected 2013-2015)
Diagnostic Imaging, McMaster University Medical Centre
DR. NAVEEN PARASU (NAGARAJAN)
MSA Member-at-Large
Staff Radiologist, Juravinski Hospital & Cancer Center, Chief of Diagnostic Imaging, Norfolk General Hospital, Simcoe ON and Hamilton Tiger-Cats Team Radiologist
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WELCOME AND THANK YOU
Welcome to the new three 24-25 MSA Exec members:
Dr. Ilun Yang, MSA Member at Large, Surgery, Juravinski Hospital
Dr. David Sjaarda, MSA Member at Large, WLMH MSA President
Dr. Natalie Schindler, Member at Large, Pediatrics ER, McMaster Children's Hospital
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Thank you to the outgoing four 23-24 MSA Exec Committees:
Dr. Maria Cesocon, MSA WLMH president
Dr. Tariq Aziz, Member at large, PAthology
Dr. Ranu Malhi, MUMC Pediatrics
Dr. Karen Raymer, Anaesthesia
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