Physician Services Committee

Dr. Sonal Gandhi is an academic medical oncologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto and an associate professor (clinician in quality and innovation) in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She holds an MSc in health technology assessment and is completing an executive global health care MBA.

Her clinical expertise is breast cancer and acute oncology, and she serves as regional quality lead for Sunnybrook’s Division of Medical Oncology, representing systemic therapy quality at OH–Cancer Care Ontario. Dr. Gandhi’s research and innovation work centers on improving cancer care models. She developed a novel physician assistant–led urgent oncology program to reduce emergency department use, leads interprofessional toxicity management programs, and has applied AI to predict high-risk ED utilization by cancer patients. She also collaborates on research evaluating novel response-monitoring technologies for neoadjuvant breast cancer treatment, contributes to provincial and national breast cancer guidelines, has been on clinical guidance panels for national HTA evaluation of novel cancer drugs, and co-directs an international quality improvement fellowship through the Centre for Quality and Patient Safety (C-QuIPS). She is committed to collaborative, accountable, sustainable and innovative health-systems improvement.

Dr. Maryana Kravtsenyuk is a forensic psychiatrist and holds medical licences in Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and the Northwest Territories and currently holds hospital privileges at the Centre for Addiction & Mental Health (Toronto) and Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre.

Her clinical work spans court ordered assessments and care under the Provincial Criminal Code Review Board, Mental Health Court, and other forensic services across Northern Ontario. Prior to joining CAMH’s Law and Mental Health Program in 2023, she worked in Alberta’s forensic system, including roles in maximum-security federal and provincial correctional facilities, and held academic appointments at the University of Alberta and Northern Ontario School of Medicine.

Dr. Kravtsenyuk has extensive governance and leadership experience at local, provincial, and national levels. She is newly elected treasurer for OMA District 11 and President of the CAMH Medical Staff Association. Her work includes service on Ontario Health’s Equitable and Culturally Safe Care for Indigenous People Quality Standard Advisory Committee, the Canadian Psychiatric Association, and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Standards and Assessment Committee. She is also a board member for the Alberta Criminal Code Review Board, providing oversight on matters at the intersection of health care and justice. With experience across multiple provinces and health system settings, she brings a broad perspective on physician practice, equity, and culturally safe care.

Dr. Nikolina Mizdrak is a family physician with the Toronto Western Family Health Team and an assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. She provides clinical care, teaches medical students, residents, and fellows, and serves as finance chair for her practice. In addition to her clinical and academic roles, she has delivered workshops and presentations on negotiation skills and physician leadership, with a focus on supporting women in medicine.

Within the OMA, Dr. Mizdrak has served on the Negotiations Team since 2017 and currently chairs the Negotiations Task Force for the 2024-28 Physician Services Agreement. She is a member of the Physician Services Committee and has previously served as a District 11 Delegate, chair of the Acuity Modifier Working Group, and member of the Education & Prevention Committee. Her work has focused on negotiations, physician compensation and physician advocacy. One of her passions is to improve Family Medicine in Ontario with a push towards the core team model to deliver care to patients.

Dr. David Schieck is a family physician based in Guelph, Ont., with an active community practice and hospital privileges at Guelph General Hospital and St. Joseph’s Health Centre. He has extensive leadership experience in both the OMA and the broader health system. Dr. Schieck has served on the OMA Section on General and Family Practice (SGFP) Executive since 2009, including terms as chair (2016-17, 2021-22), vice-chair, and health policy chair. He currently serves as District 3 chair and is a member of the Compensation Panel and OMA Physician Human Resources Committee. He has played a key role in OMA negotiations and tariff work, including serving on the OMA Negotiations Primary Care Reference Group, and SGFP Tariff Team bringing direct experience with physician compensation structures, fee schedules, and negotiations.

Beyond the OMA, Dr. Schieck has held numerous system-level roles focused on primary care, quality, and integration. He has served on the OMA-MOH Physician Services Committee OHT Working Group, the HQO Primary Care Quality Advisory Committee, and the OPCN Clinical Advisory Council, as well as leadership positions within the Waterloo-Wellington LHIN, including Subregion Clinical Lead and Primary Care Advisory Committee member.

Dr. Sharon Bal, based in Cambridge, Ont., is the lead physician of the Delta Coronation FHO and staff physician at Cambridge Memorial Hospital, providing on-call coverage to area long-term care homes. Dr. Bal is an assistant clinical professor with the Department of Family Medicine, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University and is the pre-clerkship coordinator at the Waterloo Regional Campus. Dr. Bal is a recognized physician advocate and champion of health equity for marginalized populations and has held multiple leadership roles. Dr. Bal currently serves as a member of the steering and joint board committees of the Cambridge North Dumfries OHT and is a clinical lead with Ontario Health. Dr. Bal was co-chair of OMA Women from 2018-2022. 

Dr. Rebecca Hicks is a community-based comprehensive care family physician working in Toronto. She has held local, regional and provincial leadership positions with her involvement as her family health team’s lead physician, being a member of West Toronto OHT’s Primary Care Council, and being a member-at-large of the OMA’s SGFP Executive and Health Policy Committee.

Dr. Hicks is passionate about fighting for better working conditions for physicians and promoting personal and professional well being for the the doctors of Ontario. She is committed to advocating for fair compensation for the critical work doctors do across the province.

Kimberly Moran has served as OMA’s CEO since December 2023. She is a highly respected health-care leader and accomplished executive with more than 30 years of senior leadership experience in the private and not-for-profit sectors.

Kimberly comes to the OMA from her most recent role as the CEO of the Ontario College of Family Physicians, where she was able to unite stakeholders around a common purpose and vision of attracting new and sustainable funding in the health-care system.

She has held roles as special adviser to the dean of the faculty of medicine at the University of Toronto, where her work included attracting new funding for research and innovative health-care models, CEO of Children’s Mental Health Ontario, and CEO of UNICEF Canada.

She has advised health-system stakeholders at all levels of government in Canada and internationally. Kimberly is a recognized health-system transformation contributor and collaborator, with previous roles in the Ontario Children’s Health Coalition, which represents children’s hospitals and children’s community health-care providers, and as co-chair of the Children’s COVID-19 Vaccine Table. She was previously on the Premier’s Council on Improving Health Care and Ending Hallway Medicine, a voluntary expert advisory council reporting to the premier and the minister of health.

Kimberly is a chartered professional accountant and chairs the finance committee for the Seneca College Board of Directors.