Our Team

Director Student Affairs

  • Meera Chopra
  • University of Toronto
  • [email protected]
  • Meera 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.

Associate Director Student Affairs

National Wellness Challenge Coordinator

National Officer of Wellness

  • Tariq Atkin-Jones
  • McMaster University
  • [email protected]
  • As the National Officer of Wellness, Tariq 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.

    • Wellness Curriculum Co-Leads

  • Brett Henderson
  • Dalhousie University
  • [email protected]
  • Bhuvna Dalal
  • Western University

    • Blood Drive Co-Chairs

  • Justin Kim
  • University of Alberta
  • [email protected]
  • Zoe Douglas
  • University of Saskatchewan
  • [email protected]

    • Perspectives in Medicine Coordinators

  • Alexandre Veilleux
  • McMaster University
  • Sarah Bahreinian
  • University of Ottawa

    • Safe Spaces Co-Leads

  • Maliha Imami
  • University of Toronto
  • Sherwin Rajkumar
  • Western University

    • Student Mistreatment Co-Leads

  • Victoria Porter
  • University of British Columbia
  • Ashitija Jasrai
  • Western University

    • Longitudinal Wellness Initiative Coordinator

  • Ashmeen Aneja
  • University of Alberta

    • Alumni Liaison

  • Kerry Hu
  • Western University
  • [email protected]

    • Wellness Curriculum Task Force

  • Aly Muhammad Ladak - University of Toronto
  • Victoria Meng - McMaster University
  • Cindy Zhang - University of Alberta
  • Jiahui (Grace) Yang - University of British Columbia
  • Corinne Brideau - Université de Sherbrooke - Moncton
  • Jeswende Seedu - University of British Columbia
  • Jessica Youssef - Dalhousie University
  • Stephanie Quon - University of British Columbia
  • Jessie Tu - University of Toronto
  • Samantha McCluskey - Queen's University
  • Ashlyn Nguyen - McMaster University

    • National Blood Drive Committee

  • Yolanda Wang - McMaster University
  • Cate Vercaigne - University of Manitoba
  • Kelvi Toskovich - NOSM University
  • Rukun Dou - McGill University
  • Ojas Bhatia - University of Toronto
  • Sherry Eskander - Dalhousie University

    • Safe Spaces Committee

  • Victoria Meng - McMaster University
  • Rania Khelifi - University of Ottawa
  • Zahra Mohamed - University of Toronto