Dr. Charmaine van Schaik is Medical Director of POGO’s Satellite Clinic Program at Southlake Regional Health Centre. She is extremely active in a number of POGO initiatives, having served on POGO’s Supportive Care Steering Committee and the Satellite Education Day Planning Committee, and she is currently a member of POGO’s Steering Committee and several POGO working groups to review and update POGO’s Provincial Pediatric Oncology Satellite Program Blueprint for Service, a guideline for the delivery of pediatric cancer care in community hospitals.

Dr. van Schaik is the Chief of Pediatrics at Southlake Regional Health Centre where she is responsible for the administration of the department as well as expanding the programs and services offered in pediatrics.

Her career and community interests include a passion for pediatric oncology and pediatric injury prevention.