Michael has over 20 years of senior leadership experience in the areas of finance, service delivery and policy development. His career includes several years in the B.C. public service, serving with the ministries of Health, Finance, and Social Development & Poverty Reduction. More recently, in Saskatchewan, Michael led the development of provincial accessibility legislation and played a significant role in shaping the future of community housing.
Michael holds a degree in economics and political science, has a chartered professional accountant designation, and is finishing a certificate in conflict resolution and negotiation.
Dr. Natasha Prodan-Bhalla is responsible for providing strategic leadership to nursing and allied health professionals across PHSA, for leading the development of a quality framework that includes patient engagement and experience, the PHSA policy office, accreditation, and ethics and spiritual care.
Prior to this role, Natasha was the collaborative practice leader for nurse practitioners with PHSA and still works as a nurse practitioner at BC Women's Hospital + Health Centre one day a week in the Heart Program for Women and the Access Clinic. Natasha completed her doctorate in nursing practice from the University of Colorado, holds a master of nursing, adult nurse practitioner degree from the University of Toronto, and a bachelor of science in nursing from the University of Western Ontario. Natasha also holds a post masters family nurse practitioner certificate from the University of Massachusetts, is a North American menopause practitioner, and holds a cardiovascular nursing certification from the Canadian Nursing Association.
Natasha is a fellow of both the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and the Canadian Academy of Nursing. She is an adjunct professor in the Schools of Nursing at the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria. She was a founding board member of the Nurses and Nurse Practitioners of BC and is the current co-chair of the National Principle Nurses Advisors Task Force. Separate from her role at PHSA, Natasha serves in an advisory capacity as the provincial chief nursing officer with the B.C. Ministry of Health.
Dr. Sean Virani is responsible for PHSA medical affairs, physician compensation and engagement. He also leads quality and safety for medical staff, including physicians and nurse practitioners, infection prevention and control, the BC Medical Quality Initiative, and has oversight for PHSA’s Health Authority Medical Advisory Committee.
Dr. Virani is a respected physician and a key opinion leader for heart failure in Canada, bringing more than two decades of medical experience to the role. He also serves as head of the division of cardiology for Providence Health Care (PHC) and physician program director with the Heart Centre at St. Paul’s Hospital.
Dr. Virani previously served as the provincial medical director for Cardiac Services BC, a past-president of the Canadian Heart Failure Society as well as associate professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He is co-chair of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society Heart Failure Guidelines Panel and co-chair of B.C.’s Provincial Advisory Panel on Cardiac Health. He also serves as medical director for HeartLife Foundation.
He completed his internal medicine and cardiology training at UBC before embarking on a sub-specialization in heart failure and cardiac transplantation at Stanford University. Dr. Virani also has a masters degree in public health from Columbia University with a focus on health-care management.
Zulie Sachedina is responsible for overseeing the legal, risk, privacy, patient care quality, and technology development offices at PHSA.
Zulie has devoted more than 30 years to public service as a leader, lawyer and human rights advocate. She acquired her masters in health administration and her law degree from the University of Toronto and her LL.M in Global Health Law and Governance from Georgetown Law Center in Washington, DC and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. She is an adjunct professor and teaches health law at the Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia and is a technical advisor for the Global Health Diplomacy Program at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.
Zulie is an active community volunteer and serves as a governor of the Law Foundation of British Columbia, an organization with the legislative mandate to fund access to justice initiatives, support law reform and public legal education. As chair of the Ismaili International Conciliation and Arbitration Board, she leads this global dispute resolution organization, which provides mediation services in 19 jurisdictions across the world.