2026 Chiefs

Divisional Director: Dr. David Bigam
Program Director: Dr. Michael McCall
Assistant Program Director: Dr. Blaire Anderson
Surgical Foundations Program Director: Dr. Jeevan Nagendran

Meet the Team! - Fun Q&A

Faculty Members

(Listed by Primary Site)

Royal Alexandra Hospital

16940 87 Ave NW,
Edmonton, AB T5R 4H5

Ram Anantha
Daniel Birch
Vanessa Fawcett
Alijah Kanji (Site Lead)
Shahzeer Karmali
Mike Laffin
Mike McCall
Dana Mihalicz
Damian Paton-Gay
Dan Schiller
Matt Strickland
Noah Switzer
Bonnie Tsang
Jonathan White

Misericordia Community Hospital

16940 87 Ave NW,
Edmonton, AB T5R 4H5

Dale Berg 
Anna Borowiec
Jessica Hopkins
David Lesniak
Lashan Peiris
Nikoo Rajaee
James Stewart (Site Lead)

Fort Saskatchewan Community Hospital

9401 86 Ave,
Fort Saskatchewan, AB T8L 0C6

Nasser Abualhassan
Crystal Burant
Omar Farooq
Ramesh Juta
Deng Mapiour (Site Lead)
Mohammed Swenia

Leduc Community Hospital

4210 48 St,
Leduc, AB T9E 5Z3

Neil MacEachern

Sturgeon General Hospital

201 Boudreau Rd,
St. Albert, AB T8N 6C4

Jennifer Andruchow
Sanita Atwal
Athena Bennett
Shaun Cowan
Alex Chow
Sue Kupper
Esther Lee
Dereck Mok
Sean Norris (Site Lead)
Naureen Wasey