Our Team

Director Student Affairs

  • Sara Abdessamie
  • McGill University
  • [email protected]
  • Sara is responsible for overseeing the CFMS initiatives related to wellness, medical culture, leadership, and member benefits and services. This position requires collaboration with the National Officer of Wellness, Wellness Roundtable Representatives, National Officer of Services, and external partners to promote wellness, resilience, and leadership development. Sara works with the dedicated National Wellness Committee, Services Committee, Leadership Development Task Force, Wellness Curriculum Task Force, Health Promoting Learning Environments Task Force, Student Mistreatment Task Force, and SafeSpaces volunteers to realize the vision of the Student Affairs portfolio. The vision is to Train healthier physicians to maximize the productivity and quality of health care services for Canadians.

Student Affairs Dyad

  • Alvin Qiu
  • University of Calgary
  • email TBA
  • The Student Affairs Dyad chairs the Wellness Roundtable to help facilitate communication and collaboration between Wellness representatives across the Canadian medical schools. Within his role, the Student Affairs Dyad also oversees the CFMS Leadership Awards and contributes to the ongoing initiatives within the student affairs portfolio. They work closely with the National Wellness Committee to improve and promote student wellness projects including the annual National Wellness Challenge.

    • National Officer of Wellness

  • Elizabeth Ziming Yan
  • McMaster University
  • [email protected]
  • As the National Officer of Wellness, Elizabeth chairs the National Wellness Committee that is composed of leaders of the various medical student well-being initiatives at the CFMS. She guides the direction of the Committee in their goals for the year including building pathways that will lead to greater accountability for CFMS recommendations at each medical school UGME. She oversees several of these initiatives including Longitudinal Wellness Initiative, National Wellness Challenge, Perspectives in Medicine and CFMS Connects.

    • National Officer of Services

  • Jon Nam
  • Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick
  • [email protected]
  • As the National Officer of Services , Jon is responsible for the CFMS Corporate Partnerships and Member Discounts, as well as the Electives and Interview Databases. Jon's main goal during his term is to explore partnerships with new industries to broaden and expand the Member Discount program. As well, he is dedicated to improving the CFMS databases so that it can easily be accessed by the Members for their use to benefit from them.

    • Alumni Liaison

  • John Dean Chiong (Western University)
  • [email protected]

    • Student Affairs Communication Coordinator

  • Megan Brookbank (McMaster University)

    • Wellness Roundtable (WRT)

  • Isabella Pascheto (University of Alberta)
  • Megan Noble (Western University)
  • Layo Alaga (McGill University)
  • Raphael Rezkallah (McGill University)
  • Abdelatif Guerroudj (Université de Sherbrooke - Moncton)
  • Jessica Skinner (Memorial University)
  • Marie-Philip Ducharme (Fédération médicale étudiante du Québec)

    • National Wellness Committee (CSHW)

  • Jules Perez (University of Manitoba) - Advocacy File Lead
  • Trevyna William (University of Manitoba) - Advocacy File Lead
  • Raina Kim (University of Saskatchewan) - Resiliency File Lead
  • Karen Jiang (University of British Columbia) - Awareness Lead
  • Jennifer Yi (University of British Columbia) - National Wellness Challenge File Lead
  • Karen Jiang (University of British Columbia) - Perspectives in Medicine CFMS File Lead

    • Longitudinal Wellness Initiative (LWI)

  • Nicholas Reitsman (University of British Columbia) - Longitudinal Wellness Initiative Lead

    • Services Committee

  • Muizz Hussain (McMaster University) - Student Resource Coordinator
  • Amanda Chapman (Western University) - Student Resource Coordinator
  • Brandon Lee (University of British Columbia) - Student Resource Coordinator

    • Student Mistreatment Task Force

  • Hifza Mohamedbuhari (University of Toronto)

    • Wellness Curriculum Task Force

  • Vaishali Shenoy (University of Manitoba) - Wellness Curriculum Task Force Co-Lead
  • Kiana Yau (McGill University) - Wellness Curriculum Task Force Co-Lead