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Dr. Gulzar Cheema became the MLA for the riding of Surrey-Panorama Ridge
in the 2001 provincial general election. He served as the Minister of
State for Immigration and Multicultural Services and as Minister of State
for Mental Health. Before his election to the British Columbia Legislative Assembly, Dr. Cheema was a family doctor in Surrey. He has practised medicine in rural Manitoba and in Winnipeg, and was a clinical instructor in the Punjab before coming to Canada in 1979. His special interests include neonatology, psychiatry, psycho-geriatrics and geriatrics. He received his bachelor of medicine and surgery from India's Punjab University, interned at the University of Newfoundland and was a resident at Saskatoon's University Hospital. He is fluent in Punjabi and Hindi, and understands Urdu. Dr. Cheema was a member of the Surrey Chamber of Commerce and the Vancouver Television Community Council, and was vice-chair of the Rainbow Community Health Cooperative. He chaired the medical section of the 1998 B.C. Games for Athletes with Disabilities. In 1992 he was awarded the Canada 125 Medal for community service. Gulzar and Harinder Cheema have lived in the Surrey area since 1993; they have two children. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mrs. Harinder Cheema
Mrs. Cheema was born in Punjab, and moved with her parents, who are both teachers, to Scotland when she was six years old.
After living there for a few years and acquiring a bit of the Scottish lilt in her voice, Harinder, her parents and three siblings moved to Canada.
Harinder grew up in Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan and received her Bachelor of Education at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. She went on to teach in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and later in BC.
Harinder and Dr. Gulzar Cheema were married in 1979 in Winnipeg and have lived in Newfoundland, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and now in British Columbia.
Dr. Cheema and Harinder have a son and a daughter who both attend college. Both children attended Clayton Elementary School in Surrey.
While raising their children, teaching, managing her husband’s medical office and laser clinic, volunteering in the community and supporting her husband’s move to politics, Harinder has kept the importance of family foremost in her mind and heart. DR. GULZAR CHEEMA, M.D. First Ever - MINISTER of State for Mental Health in the British Commenwealth,
Member of the Executive Council, Government of B.C. Appointed on June
5, 2001 Member of the British Columbia Medical Association, the Canadian Medical
Association, the College of Family Physicians of Canada. Passed F.L.E.X December 1982 Resident 1 Rotating Internship Recipient of the John Moorhead Post-Graduate Scholarship in 1980-81 Clinical Instructor February 1979-November 1979 DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL
AND PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE Resident 1 Rotating Internship July 1977-June 1978 |
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