WELCOME AND THANK YOU
Welcome to the new five 22-23 MSA Exec members:
Dr. Paul Miller, returning MSA Member at Large as the Interim Chair of the MAC
Dr. Naveen Parasu, DI JHCC
Dr. Karen Raymer, Anesthesia HGH
Dr. Simerpreet Sandhanwalia, Emrg Medicine HGH
Dr. Victoria Squissato - WLMH MSA President
Thank you to the outgoing seven 21-22 MSA Exec Committees:
Dr. James Bain
Dr. Andy Freitag
Dr. Smita Halder
Dr. Chris Ricci
Dr. Cathy Ross
Dr. Sunjay Sharma
Dr. Katherine Zukotynski
MSA EXECUTIVE 2022-2023
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. DEEPAK DATH
MSA President (elected 2021)
General Surgery & Hepatobiliary Surgery, Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Centre
DR. THOMAS VAN HELDER
MSA Vice President (elected 2021)
Anesthesia, Hamilton General Hospital


DR. BILL RISTEVSKI
MSA Secretary/ Treasurer (elected 2021)
Orthopedic Surgery, Hamilton General Hospital
DR. DERECK HUNT
MSA Member-at-Large, MSA Past President (elected 2017-2019)
Internal Medicine, Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Centre


DR. AMNA AHMED
MSA Member-at-Large
General Internal Medicine, Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Centre
DR. SARAH BURROW
MSA Member-at-Large
Orthopedic Head of Service at HHS and Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery, McMaster University Medical Centre


DR. PETER DARBY
MSA Member-at-Large
Anaesthesia, McMaster University Medical Centre
DR. ALLISON GRICE
MSA Member-at-Large, WLMH Past MSA President (elected 2021)
Family Medicine, West Lincoln Memorial Hospital


DR. JOHN MERNAGH
MSA Member-at-Large. MSA Previous Past President (elected 2013-2015)
Diagnostic Imaging, McMaster University Medical Centre
DR. PAUL MILLER
Interim Chair of the MAC/ MSA Member-at-Large
Emergency Medicine, Hamilton General 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. THEODORE RAPANOS
MSA Member-at-Large
Vascular Surgery, Hamilton General Hospital


DR. KAREN RAYMER
MSA Member-at-Large
Anesthesia, Hamilton General Hospital
Dr Raymer have had numerous roles in Undergraduate and Postgraduate Education including having served as Residency Program Director from 2014-19 and having written “Understanding Anesthesia” , which is a guide for medical students and is the most downloaded Anesthesia textbook on Apple Books.
DR. SIMERPREET SANDHANWALIA
MSA Member-at-Large
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. VICTORIA SQUISSATO, MD, CCFP FPA
MSA Member-at-Large / WLMH MSA President
Family Practice Anesthetist at WLMH
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