Mohamed-Iqbal Ravalia Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Honourable
Mohamed-Iqbal Ravalia
Office:Senator from
Newfoundland and Labrador
Term Start:June 1, 2018
Nominator:Justin Trudeau
Appointed:Julie Payette
Birth Date:15 August 1957
Residence:Twillingate, NL
Party:Independent Senators Group

Mohamed-Iqbal Ravalia (born August 15, 1957) is a Canadian senator from Newfoundland and Labrador. He was appointed to the Senate on June 1, 2018.[1]

Ravalia left white minority rule in what was then Rhodesia and immigrated to rural Newfoundland. He holds a bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery from the University of Rhodesia, in present-day Zimbabwe.[2]

Prior to his appointment to the Senate, Ravalia was a family physician, as well as a senior medical officer at the Notre Dame Bay Memorial Health Centre, in Twillingate, NL. He was also an associate professor of family medicine and the assistant dean of Rural Medical Education Network at Memorial University of Newfoundland.[3]

He has been awarded the Canadian Family Physician of the Year Award and received the Order of Canada in 2016.[4] In 2012, he was awarded the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal.

Ravalia and his wife Dianne have two sons, Adam and Mikhail.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mohamed-Iqbal Ravalia, C.M. | Prime Minister of Canada . Pm.gc.ca . June 2018. 2018-06-02.
  2. Web site: Family doctor, professor, Trudeau's new appointee to the Senate | CBC News . Cbc.ca . 2018-06-02.
  3. Web site: Family doctor who left Zimbabwe for N.L. Now newest Trudeau-appointed senator . June 2018 .
  4. Web site: Faculty of Medicine - Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland .