Cristina-Delia
Suciu, born in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, is the daughter of an agricultural
engineer and of a mother who is a medical doctor. Graduating from the University
of Cluj-Napoca Medical School, Cristina immigrated, on her own, to Canada,
1984, settling first, in Winnipeg, interning for one year at the University
of Manitoba, then practicing for one year in that city before transferring
to Hamilton, Ontario, where she attended McMaster University, becoming
certified as an anaesthesiologist, 1993. Cristina worked as an anaesthesiologist
in various southwestern Ontario cities, including hospitals in Hamilton,
Windsor, Burlington, and Oakville before taking on a permanent position
at Brantford General Hospital. In this view, Cristina is seen at the 80th
anniversary celebrations of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Boian, Alberta,
1985, the year after she immigrated to Canada. Cristina, left, is standing
next to the Rt. Hon. Don Mazankowski, M.P. for Vegreville, His Eminence
Archbishop Victorin, Cristina’s uncle and Archbishop of the Romanian Orthodox
Archdiocese in America and Canada, and Father Mircea Panciuk, Parish Priest
of St. Mary’s Romanian Orthodox Church, Boian, Alberta. [Photo, courtesy
Dr. Cristina Suciu]