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Originally from Calgary, Sharon has lived in the Okanagan for the past 27 years. A journalist by profession, Sharon has a diverse background in both business and the non-profit sector. For 12 years she was Area Director of a national healthcare company, overseeing an infusion clinic and home and community health care operations from Fort St. John to the Kootenays. In 2019 she left healthcare to co-author two books: Mama’s Gotta Work (2020) and Fear Less (2021). Passionate about community, Sharon serves on the advisory council and executive committee of Central Okanagan Economic Development Commission and is vice-chair of the Okanagan chapter of Women in Leadership Foundation. In her spare time she enjoys family time, tennis, paddle boarding, live theatre and hiking with Winston, her 98 pound Golden Mountain dog. Please contact Sharon with any questions or feedback at programdirector@vernonphysiciansociety.ca

Maja is proud to have worked for more than 20 years at Vernon Jubilee Hospital which is also the hospital that she was actually born in.  Her extensive administrative experience includes both private and public sector careers, but her passion remains in medical administration.  She has worked on more than 10 acute care units at Vernon Jubilee Hospital as a unit coordinator as well as held community positions in the Home Oxygen, Cardiac/Pulmonary Rehab, and Mental Health programs.  She subsequently managed Interior Health’s new corporate credentialing and privileging department.  Her team initiated the first successful electronic implementation of IH’s annual privileging process which became the gold standard for privileging and credentialing in BC.  In her leisure hours, Maja enjoys glam-camping, her husband’s gourmet cooking, and checking off bucket list items such as completing the Panama Canal transit via a cruise ship.  Contact Maja at administrative@vernonphysiciansociety.ca