MSP payment · 2017
British Columbia Doctors' MSP Payments 2017
Salaries paid in the fiscal year ending in 2017, published in 2017 (the list often called the Doctors' MSP Payments). 11,157 people. Fiscal years ending March 31 (2025 is April 2024 to March 2025). Gross payments, before the practice costs practitioners pay from them: not salaries.
People on the list
11,157
+3.1% vs 2016
Median payment
$211,065
−0.3% vs 2016
Total payments
$2.9B
Employers
1
Top 100 highest paid in 2017
| # | Name | Gross payments | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dharminder Singh Dhanda | $3,617,898 | +$311,497 (+9.4%) |
| 2 | Leah Arin Wittenberg | $3,374,325 | +$148,246 (+4.6%) |
| 3 | David Andrew Albiani | $3,248,729 | +$284,082 (+9.6%) |
| 4 | Hugh MacPherson Parsons | $3,062,694 | +$2,725 (+0.1%) |
| 5 | Andrew William Kirker | $3,006,923 | +$386,224 (+14.7%) |
| 6 | Simon Rock Lam | $2,771,277 | +$52,226 (+1.9%) |
| 7 | Derek Vivek Godinho | $2,555,333 | +$89,889 (+3.6%) |
| 8 | Patrick Eugene Ma | $2,497,631 | −$107,029 (−4.1%) |
| 9 | Lica Chui | $2,494,964 | +$387,442 (+18.4%) |
| 10 | Steve Daniel Levasseur | $2,467,476 | +$466,498 (+23.3%) |
| 11 | Peter Mark Hopp | $2,339,189 | +$478,568 (+25.7%) |
| 12 | Gabriel Chu | $2,324,145 | +$369,252 (+18.9%) |
| 13 | Sajal Jain | $2,266,312 | +$446,245 (+24.5%) |
| 14 | Andrew Brian Merkur | $2,205,552 | −$172,851 (−7.3%) |
| 15 | Hugo F. S. Sutton | $2,140,353 | +$187,268 (+9.6%) |
| 16 | Eduardo Vitor Navajas | $2,126,930 | +$963,003 (+82.7%) |
| 17 | David Alan Heinrichs | $2,068,128 | +$17,082 (+0.8%) |
| 18 | Michael Thomas Walter Butler | $2,062,982 | +$231,575 (+12.6%) |
| 19 | Tirath Gosal-Sadhra | $2,039,455 | +$58,118 (+2.9%) |
| 20 | Hussein Hollands | $1,953,628 | +$32,851 (+1.7%) |
| 21 | Ravinder Dennis Bhui | $1,948,985 | +$1,552,722 (+391.8%) |
| 22 | Saul Hillel Isserow | $1,873,875 | +$44,963 (+2.5%) |
| 23 | Zakaria Tadrous | $1,815,518 | −$22,959 (−1.2%) |
| 24 | Kevin Michael Ramsey | $1,807,305 | −$52,453 (−2.8%) |
| 25 | Francis Chi Hung Law | $1,781,558 | −$113,112 (−6.0%) |
| 26 | Yau Woon Edward Yu | $1,781,377 | −$24,271 (−1.3%) |
| 27 | Murray John Erasmus | $1,761,632 | −$58,913 (−3.2%) |
| 28 | Wouter De Bruin | $1,746,569 | +$17,225 (+1.0%) |
| 29 | Kurt Taro Tsuyuki | $1,738,184 | +$77,618 (+4.7%) |
| 30 | David Rex Socrates Neima | $1,730,598 | −$26,223 (−1.5%) |
| 31 | James Martin McCarthy | $1,709,971 | +$96,651 (+6.0%) |
| 32 | Elizabeth Joan Hay | $1,693,876 | −$12,608 (−0.7%) |
| 33 | Gregory M. Polyakov | $1,688,119 | +$724,974 (+75.3%) |
| 34 | Malvinder Singh Hoonjan | $1,685,224 | +$160,675 (+10.5%) |
| 35 | Jahangir Hajimohammed Charania | $1,624,259 | +$266,183 (+19.6%) |
| 36 | Pierre Faber | $1,577,446 | −$103,720 (−6.2%) |
| 37 | Naser Sayeh | $1,556,322 | +$12,588 (+0.8%) |
| 38 | Bryce John Cowan | $1,545,009 | +$225,962 (+17.1%) |
| 39 | Daniel Currie Warder | $1,543,527 | +$1,063,216 (+221.4%) |
| 40 | Andrew Han Yu | $1,518,863 | +$458,418 (+43.2%) |
| 41 | A. Lambert Maberley | $1,511,044 | +$180,385 (+13.6%) |
| 42 | Stanley Glenn Shortt | $1,501,465 | −$16,829 (−1.1%) |
| 43 | Christopher Goddard | $1,501,286 | +$150,774 (+11.2%) |
| 44 | Peter Zakrzewski | $1,489,725 | +$110,909 (+8.0%) |
| 45 | Cory Lorn Ramstead | $1,480,358 | +$167,922 (+12.8%) |
| 46 | Aditya Seth | $1,476,912 | +$151,436 (+11.4%) |
| 47 | Manjeet Mann | $1,471,252 | +$89,438 (+6.5%) |
| 48 | Carolyn Kim Anderson | $1,467,543 | +$61,918 (+4.4%) |
| 49 | Richard Chi-Wing Chan | $1,466,890 | +$188,342 (+14.7%) |
| 50 | Barend Nathan Zack | $1,455,052 | +$366,232 (+33.6%) |
| 51 | Sonia Niki Yeung | $1,447,307 | +$384,044 (+36.1%) |
| 52 | Jeffrey Alan Blicker | $1,407,480 | +$47,549 (+3.5%) |
| 53 | Johannes Petrus Claasen | $1,387,229 | −$107,708 (−7.2%) |
| 54 | Andrew Dennis Lukaris | $1,375,899 | +$139,833 (+11.3%) |
| 55 | Teddi Lynn Orenstein | $1,375,411 | +$325,064 (+30.9%) |
| 56 | Darren Behn | $1,369,841 | −$98,960 (−6.7%) |
| 57 | Peter Jelfimow | $1,351,941 | −$20,612 (−1.5%) |
| 58 | Navraj Singh Heran | $1,350,779 | −$13,786 (−1.0%) |
| 59 | Charalambos Andreou | $1,348,051 | +$6,970 (+0.5%) |
| 60 | Tung Minh Diep | $1,342,005 | +$160,550 (+13.6%) |
| 61 | Victor De Sousa Pegado | $1,341,632 | +$67,441 (+5.3%) |
| 62 | William H. Ross | $1,325,673 | −$98,809 (−6.9%) |
| 63 | Winston Tsui | $1,325,594 | −$26,791 (−2.0%) |
| 64 | Christopher Sandor Pollock | $1,324,403 | +$72,716 (+5.8%) |
| 65 | Teong Kuan Chuah | $1,321,090 | +$271,713 (+25.9%) |
| 66 | Brett Gregory Heilbron | $1,320,279 | +$62,295 (+5.0%) |
| 67 | Michael Berman | $1,313,825 | −$19,340 (−1.5%) |
| 68 | Michael Joseph Boyd | $1,303,665 | +$90,000 (+7.4%) |
| 69 | Thomas A. Demco | $1,294,491 | +$315 (+0.0%) |
| 70 | David Alexander Wood | $1,291,885 | +$42,814 (+3.4%) |
| 71 | Eric Bertrand Fretz | $1,272,450 | +$174,686 (+15.9%) |
| 72 | John Arthur Warner | $1,266,995 | +$10,990 (+0.9%) |
| 73 | Ronald George Cridland | $1,260,723 | +$48,156 (+4.0%) |
| 74 | Albert Wai Wah Chan | $1,260,326 | +$227,854 (+22.1%) |
| 75 | Priya Gupta | $1,235,421 | +$307,663 (+33.2%) |
| 76 | Alissa Zentner | $1,230,154 | +$363,066 (+41.9%) |
| 77 | Nader Hassan Elmayergi | $1,228,089 | +$135,900 (+12.4%) |
| 78 | David A. L. Maberley | $1,219,322 | −$36,319 (−2.9%) |
| 79 | Aron Tischler | $1,218,133 | +$101,149 (+9.1%) |
| 80 | William H. Johnston | $1,217,517 | −$28,885 (−2.3%) |
| 81 | Donald W. Anderson | $1,206,294 | +$29,742 (+2.5%) |
| 82 | Li Ming Huang | $1,199,334 | +$122,921 (+11.4%) |
| 83 | Rajesh Rai Mainra | $1,196,546 | +$28,987 (+2.5%) |
| 84 | George Vrabec | $1,193,077 | new |
| 85 | Simon Paul Holland | $1,189,826 | +$115,166 (+10.7%) |
| 86 | Razi Azhar Khan | $1,188,143 | +$50,270 (+4.4%) |
| 87 | Randy Alan Walker | $1,188,017 | +$147,166 (+14.1%) |
| 88 | Osama Gusbi | $1,183,830 | +$214,609 (+22.1%) |
| 89 | Abuobeida Abdelaal Hamour | $1,183,668 | +$181,591 (+18.1%) |
| 90 | Jason Jeffrey Cherry | $1,178,555 | +$43,920 (+3.9%) |
| 91 | Kenneth A. Hugh Fletcher | $1,167,002 | +$161,423 (+16.1%) |
| 92 | Leo Ka Ho Leo Mok | $1,163,237 | +$175,328 (+17.7%) |
| 93 | Kevin Iain McLeod | $1,161,469 | +$116,968 (+11.2%) |
| 94 | Gary Bernard Bloomberg | $1,157,911 | −$4,279 (−0.4%) |
| 95 | Neil Kevin Wade | $1,156,269 | +$38,679 (+3.5%) |
| 96 | Pargat Singh Bhurji | $1,149,226 | +$103,801 (+9.9%) |
| 97 | Roger Karl Philipp | $1,149,012 | +$25,988 (+2.3%) |
| 98 | Olivia Mayin Dam | $1,141,155 | +$14,407 (+1.3%) |
| 99 | Kamyar Mohaseb | $1,132,805 | +$80,946 (+7.7%) |
| 100 | Brian Alan Nelson | $1,125,013 | +$131,218 (+13.2%) |
Questions and answers
How many people were on the 2017 Doctors' MSP Payments?
11,157 people paid $25,000 or more in 2017, +3.1% on 2016 (10,826 people).
Who was the highest paid on the 2017 list?
Dharminder Singh Dhanda, at Medical Services Plan, with a salary of $3,617,898.
What was the median payment on the 2017 list?
$211,065, −0.3% on 2016. It is the median of people paid $25,000 or more, not of every public employee.
When was the 2017 Doctors' MSP Payments released?
In 2017. Each list covers the salaries paid in one year and is published after it ends.
What is “gross payments”?
Gross payments for insured services in the fiscal year, as the Medical Services Commission publishes them, before the practice costs (staff, rent, equipment) practitioners pay from them: not a salary or take-home pay. How the lists work
Why is someone not on the list?
Only people paid $25,000 or more in the year are listed, for insured services MSP paid for. Someone paid less that year, or working elsewhere, does not appear.