Fellowship Funding: Bringing the Best to Saskatchewan
Fellowship training is where exceptional physicians become leaders in highly specialized care. After completing medical school and residency, physicians pursue fellowship training to gain advanced expertise in a focused area of medicine.
Since 2005, donor support through Royal University Hospital Foundation has helped bring more than 60 fellowship-trained specialists to Saskatoon — strengthening care, expanding services and improving outcomes for patients across the province.
Today, Fellowship funding is one of the most powerful ways you can help ensure Saskatchewan has access to the best care available.
Fellowship-trained physicians make a measurable difference:
- Patients receive care closer to home, reducing the need for out-of-province travel
- New programs and procedures are introduced, expanding what’s possible at RUH
- Service gaps are filled, improving access and reducing wait times
- Top medical talent is recruited and retained in Saskatchewan
- Clinical teams are strengthened through advanced expertise and leadership
By investing in fellowship training, you’re not only supporting a physician — you are helping build a stronger, more innovative health-care system for our province.
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Meet the Specialists You’ve Helped Bring Home
Behind every fellowship is a physician whose advanced training is changing lives in Saskatchewan. Through donor support, these specialists are delivering leading-edge care right here at Royal University Hospital:
- Dr. Kasia Zubkow, Epilepsy
- Dr. Shane Leyen, Cardiac Anesthesiology
- Dr. Nicole Coote, Functional and Epilepsy Neurosurgery
- Dr. Bashir Daud Shah, Movement Disorders
- Dr. Matthew Stewart – Cardiothoracic Radiology
- Dr. Thomas Russell Lenferna de la Motte – Management and Medical Education
- Dr. Si Victorian Tian – Chronic Pain
- Dr. Ingrid Tam – Hematopathology
- Dr. Victoria Tian – Chronic Pain
- Dr. Ahmed Abduiraheem Sarheed – Transplant Hepatology
- Dr. Amit Persad – Neurosurgical Oncology and Radiosurgery/Epilepsy Surgery (pictured above)
- Dr. Donovan MacDonald – Adult Critical Care
- Dr. Bryan Evans – Adult Infectious Diseases
- Dr. Stephanie Ballendine – Multiple Sclerosis
- Dr. Eoin McFadden – Cardiac Anesthesiology
- Dr. Andrew Frost – Adult Critical Care
- Dr. Scott Willms – Orthopedic Trauma
- Dr. Eric Noyes – Movement Disorders
- Dr. Eoin McFadden – Cardiac Anesthesiology
- Dr. Shui (Andy) Liu – Cardiac Anesthesiology
- Dr. Dominique Kushneriuk – Primary Prevention and Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Dr. Prateek Kundapur – Neurogastroenterology and Motility
- Dr. Andrew Frost – Adult Critical Care
- Dr. Uzair Ahmed – Cerebrovascular and Endovascular Neurosurgery
- Dr. Paul Kulyk – Foot and Ankle Adult Reconstruction
- Dr. Jeffrey Marciniuk – Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Integrated Care of Chronic Respiratory Disease
- Dr. Matthew Mastel – Join Reconstruction
- Dr. Cassie Fehr – Epilepsy
- Dr. Glenda Wright – Dermatopathology
- Dr. Jayden Cowen – Thoracic Anesthesiology
- Dr. Gage Watson – Angio/Interventional Radiology
- Dr. Natalie Garrett – Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- Dr. Joshua Frost – Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- Dr. Christopher Pekrul – Cardiac Electrophysiology
- Dr. Sean Regan Cooley – Stroke Neurology
- Dr. Sanchea Wasyliw – Stroke Neurology
- Dr. Jenna Pylypow, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- Dr. Laura Sims – Upper Limb Orthopedic Surgery
- Dr. Suzie Harriman – Trauma Surgery
- Dr. Janine Eckstein – Interventional Cardiology
- Dr. Stephen Pylypchuk – Clinical Echocardiography
- Dr. Zane Tymchak – Neurology and Complex Spine Surgery
- Dr. Brett Graham – Neurology
- Dr. Stephen Pylypchuk – Adult Congenital Heart Disease
- Dr. Oksana Prokopchuk-Gauk – Transfusion Medicine
- Dr. Nathan Ginter – Colorectal Surgery
- Dr. Ilia Poliakov – MS Neurology
- Dr. Elke Mau – Pediatric Urology
- Dr. Mary Kinloch – Gynecology Pathology
- Dr. Allanna Baillod – Geriatric Psychiatry
- Dr. Sachin Shah – Home Dialysis
- Dr. Sarah Mueller – Trauma Surgery
- Dr. Tanya Holt – Pediatric Critical Care
- Dr. Shari McKinny – Urology
- Dr. Jill Newstead-Angel – Maternal-Fetal Medicine
- Dr. Kelly Coverett – Electrophysiology
- Dr. Jason Orvold – Interventional Cardiology
- Dr. Carlo Stuglin – Electrophysiology
- Dr. Kristine Mytopher – Maternal-Fetal Medicine
- Dr. Adrian Gamelin – Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
- Dr. Michael Kelly – Neuroendovascular Intervention
- Dr. Gary Hunter – Critical Care Neurology
- Dr. Sampson Haimanot – Gastroenterology
- Dr. Marla Davidson – Geriatric Psychiatry
- Dr. Camelia Garofeanu – Psychotherapy/Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
- Dr. Oscar Larios – Infection Control
Please consider donating to the Royal University Hospital Foundation in support of Fellowship Training.
