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. BILL RISTEVSKI
MSA President (elected 2025)
Orthopedic Surgery, Hamilton General Hospital
DR. SIMERPREET SANDHANWALIA
MSA Vice President (elected 2025)
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. TOMAS VAN HELDER
MSA Past President (2023-2025)
Anesthesia, Hamilton General Hospital
DR. NATHALIE SCHINDLER
MSA Secretary/Treasurer (Elected 2025)
Pediatrics ER, MUMC
DR. ILUN YANG
MSA Member-at-Large
General Surgery, Juravinski Hospital
Dr. Erin Blake
WLMH MSA President
Department of Family Medicine Complex continuing and Post-Acute Care
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. 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
DR. JOHN MERNAGH
MSA Member-at-Large. MSA Previous Past President (elected 2013-2015)
Diagnostic Imaging, McMaster University Medical Centre
DR. EMILIE BELLEY-COTE
MSA Member-at-Large
Department of Medicine
DR. NATASHA GILL
MSA Member-at-Large
Department of Pediatrics
DR. RYAN SMITH
MSA Member-at-Large
Department of Anesthesia
DR. LISA VANHOUWELINGEN
MSA Member-at-Large
Department of Pediatric Surgery
WELCOME AND THANK YOU
Welcome to the new three 24-25 MSA Exec members:
Dr. Emilie Belley-Cote, MSA Member at Large, Department of Medicine
Dr. Natasha Gill, MSA Member at Large, Department of Pediatrics
Dr. Erin Blake, WLMH MSA President
Dr. Ryan Smith, MSA Member at Large, Department of Anesthesia
Dr. Lisa VanHouwelingen, MSA Member at Large, Pediatric Surgery,
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Thank you to the outgoing four 23-24 MSA Exec Committees:
Dr. David Sjaarda, MSA WLMH president
Dr. Deepak Dath, MSA Past President
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