The Medical Graduate Student Society (MGSS) is a student-based, student-run society representing all graduate students in the Faculty of Medicine.

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The goals of MGSS are to: 

• Provide opportunities for social interaction between students, faculty, and staff through organized events and activities.
• Provide graduate student representation on academic and administrative committees.
• Act as a conduit between graduate students and faculty/administration regarding academic and administrative issues.
• Support community outreach initiatives.
• Provide peer support to graduate students within the Faculty of Medicine (FoM).
• Provide monetary support to graduate students in the FoM through scholarship(s) in conjunction with Research and Graduate Studies (RGS).

DID YOU KNOW? All graduate students in the FoM are general members of MGSS! We welcome and encourage all students in FoM to get involved, attend weekly meetings, share your thoughts, and volunteer with the society. For more information, please reach out to any of the Exec or Academic Unit Reps!

Your MGSS Executives for 2024-2025 are: 

President – Sarah Hartery  
Vice-President – Anna Walsh  
Secretary – Carly Stevenson 
Treasurer – Alex Folkins 
Social Chair(s) – Zhanné Hopkinson & Dorcus Makassy 
Accessibility Advocate – Malcolm Snow 
Communications Chair – Hannah Sladics 
GSU Chair – Fazle Sharior 
Indigenous Student Representative(s) – Caleb d’Entremont  & Tanisha Tucker 
International Student Representative – Robert Ndum 
Sports & Wellness Chair – Shabbir Sany

Academic Unit Representatives: 

Applied Health Services Research – Chigozie Nwosu 
Bioscience of Health & Disease – Rachael Bull 
Cardiovascular & Renal Sciences – Taylor Morency-Monzon 
Clinical Epidemiology – Josephine Joseph 
Community Health – Alex McLean 
Health Ethics – Kelsie Senior 
Human Genetics & Genomics – Asmaa Mahmoud 
Immunology & Infectious Disease – Aysika Das 
Neuroscience – Colin Connors 
Public Health – Eliza Maxwell