Executive Director
James Sutton, PA-C, DFAAPA
Executive Director
Society of Refugee Healthcare Providers
Chair, North American Refugee Health Conference (United States)
Rochester, NY
Coordinator
Sarah K. Clarke, MSPH
Public health consultant
Program manager, Refugee Health YYC, Cumming School of Medicine
Monitoring & evaluation officer, C3 Collaborating for Health
Communications lead, Smart Health Solutions
Calgary, AB
Board President
Anna Banerji O.Ont., MD, MPH, FRCPC, DTM&H
Faculty Lead, Indigenous and Refugee Health,
Post MD Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Associate Professor Pediatrics and Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Chair, North American Refugee Health Conference (Canadian)
Board Members
Ani Annamalai, MD
Associate Professor
Departments of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
Director, Yale Refugee Clinic
Newhaven, CT
Brian Gushulak, MD
Migration Health Consultants, Inc.
Qualicum Beach, BC
Gayathri Suresh Kumar, MD, CPH
Medical Officer/LCDR, USPHS
Domestic Team/Immigrant, Refugee, and Migrant Health Branch
Division of Global Migration and Quarantine
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA
Fatima M. Karaki, MD
Founding Director, Refugee and Asylum seeker Health Initiative (RAHI)
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California
Hassan Vatanparast, MD, PhD
Professor, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition
School of Public Health
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK
Julia Condrea BSW, RSW
Registered Social Worker
Mosaic Sunridge Community Clinic, Mosaic Refugee Health Clinic, Children’s Health Clinic
Mosaic Primary Care Network
Calgary, AB
Katherine C. McKenzie, MD, FACP
Director, Yale Center for Asylum Medicine
Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT
Mahli Brindamour, MD, FRCPC
General Pediatrician
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK
Manisha Hladio, MSc., MD
Family Physician, Sanctuary Refugee Health Centre
Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct), Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University
Kitchener, ON
Michael Aucoin, MD, CCFP, DTMH
Clinical Lecturer, University of Calgary, Department of Family Medicine
Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University, Department of Family Medicine
Family Physician, Clinical Operations Lead, Mosaic Refugee Health Clinic
Calgary, AB
Najah Zaaeed, DrPH, MSW, MPA
Adjunct Professor
Department of Public Health
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY
Paul L. Geltman, MD, MPH
Medical Director for Refugee and Immigrant Health,
Division of Global Populations and Infectious Disease Prevention,
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Chief Medical Officer, Upham’s Corner Health Center, Dorchester, MA
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy and Health Services Research,
Boston University School of Medicine and Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA
Peter J. Cronkright, MD, FACP
Associate Professor of Medicine
Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Syracuse, NY
