NURSES
Surgiservices is comprised of a team of physicians and nurses who strive to support out of hospital surgical and dental procedures. Please click on the buttons within their sections to view and download their certificates.
Marijana Milkovich, RN
Registered Nurse
Marijana Milkovich is a Registered Nurse with the College of Nurses of Ontario. She received her BScN from the University of Toronto in 1994. Marijana has extensive experience in Paediatric Nursing having worked at Sick Children’s Hospital and has also worked in Case Management for the CCAC. She provides operations support to Surgiservices as well as recovery room nursing. She currently holds certification in PALS, ACLS, and CPR.
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Kristina Milanovic, RN
Registered Nurse
Kristina Milanovic is a Registered Nurse with the College of Nurses of Ontario. She is committed to providing compassionate and quality care to all patients. Kristina received her BScN from the University of Western Ontario in 2020 and currently holds certifications in BLS, ACLS, and PALS.
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Ria Villa, RN
Registered Nurse
Ria has been a Registered Nurse with the College of Nurses of Ontario since 2014. She has extensive pediatric experience from her work at McMaster Children's Hospital. She has been working in office-based anesthesia since 2020, and continues to strive to provide safe and compassionate nursing care to all her patients. In her free time, you can find her browsing books at the library, trying new foods she saw on Instagram, or at a park with her dog.
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Branka Asadi, RN
Registered Nurse
Branka graduated in 1989 from nursing school in Croatia with a speciality in pediatric nursing. She qualified as an RN in Canada in 2001 and since then has worked mainly with pediatric patients at Bloorview Kids Rehab, as a case manager for CCAC, and at Mackenzie Health in pediatrics and the NICU. She is always passionate in working with kids and families. She has been awarded a Presidents Choice award for excellence in nursing at Mackenzie Health in 2015. She maintains certification in BLS, PALS and ACLS and has taught First Aid and CPR through the Red Cross. She enjoys playing and teaching tennis.
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Anne da Cunha, RN
Registered Nurse
Anne da Cunha, a Registered Nurse with College of Nurses of Ontario since 1993. Working in an out of hospital dental surgery clinics since 2006. Joined Surgiservices in 2011.
Prior to this worked as a Community Visiting Nurse in Region of Peel.
Currently holds certification in ACLS PALS and CPR.
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Francine Mahabir, RN
Registered Nurse
Francine Mahabir graduated from George Brown College in 1976. She has extensive pediatric experience and post operative experience having worked at Sick Children's Hospital and The Plastic Surgery Clinic. Also has completed a post graduate OR course at George Brown and holds PALS and BLS.
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Lisa Alkema, RN
Registered Nurse
My name is Lisa Alkema, I am a Registered Nurse.
My nursing career began in Toronto at Mount Sinai Hospital, NICU, where I worked for several years before moving into Emergency room and PACU .
New endeavours took me into Oral and Maxillofacial surgical nursing, which in turn lead me to Surgiservices, where I so enjoy being part of this incredible team!
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Larissa Glover, RN
Registered Nurse
Larissa Henrich is a Registered Nurse with the College of Nurses of Ontario. She obtained her BScN from McMaster University in Hamilton in 2014. She started her career at the Brantford General Hospital working as part of their centralized resource team, where she worked on several different units ranging from surgical, medical, paediatrics, medically complex, palliative, cardiology and the emergency room setting. As well as Lansdowne Children Centre in Brantford where she worked with medically complex paediatric patients in the community setting. From here she expanded her career and when back and obtained her critical care certificate and started working in the critical care and emergency room setting exclusively. She has since taken her knowledge and nursing expertise to the Norfolk General Hospital where she works in the Emergency Room as well has expanding her nursing role into the field of dentistry. She enjoys hot yoga and spending time with her family, friends and puppy. She maintains certifications in BLS, PALS, ACLS, CTAS, critical care and NVCI.
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Heather Morrow, RN
Registered Nurse
Heather has been a Registered Nurse with the College of Nurses of Ontario since 1984. Her nursing experience includes ER Charge Nurse, Critical Care Transfer Nurse, Wound Care Nurse ( 2011 Canadian Association Wound Care Hero), and currently Sleep Dentistry. Heather is certified in ACLS/PALS/BLS and Peri-Anesthetic nursing with Georgian College.
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Tina Granic, RN
Registered Nurse
Tina Granic is a registered nurse with the college of nurses of Ontario. She obtained her BScN from McMaster University in 2007. She started her nursing career in emergency nursing at Toronto western hospital before moving to Vancouver BC where she held a position at St. Paul’s hospital in the ER as well as IV therapy. From there she went on to practice in various settings throughout Canada, in both urban and remote locations, before returning to Ontario where she obtained a position as a nurse educator. Tina is happy to be a part of the Surgiservices team and is also in the process of starting her own practice as a holistic nurse. She has a passion for not only helping people, but animals too.
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Kathleen Philip, RN
Registered Nurse
Kathleen Philip is a Registered Nurse with the College of Nurses of Ontario. She received her BScN from the University of Toronto in 2013.
Kathleen is certified in BLS, PALS and ALCS. She received her Masters of Science from the University of Toronto in 1997. Kathleen has been certified as a Registered Dietitian since 1999 and is a member of the College of the Dietitians of Ontario. She has also worked as a certified diabetes educator.
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