COA Staff

Coordinator, Specialty Societies

Sarah Beydoun joined the Canadian Orthopaedic Association in June 2022 as the Coordinator for Specialty Societies. Her role at the COA is to guide and ensure that the Orthopaedic Specialty Societies achieve their goals and missions. She conducts general administration tasks and manages projects that the specialties wish to accomplish throughout the year. Her role also includes managing and coordinating the specialties societies’ memberships, financials, communications, events, and the specialty societies’ governance.

Sarah has always been passionate about non-profit organizations and organization development. She has acquired over six years of experience in the non-profit organization field. Throughout her career, Sarah had the privilege to build new and successful program initiatives that reflected the community’s needs and create and reconcile partnerships and connections in the community. She also helped non-profit organizations rebuild their whole structure and mission.

Prior to joining the COA, Sarah Beydoun had several roles in the non-profit world. She was formerly a program director, and in her earlier career days, she was a program coordinator.

Manager, Operations and Logistics

Meghan Corbeil (She/Her) joined the COA in the fall of 2009 as Manager Meetings and Events, and transitioned to Manager Operations and Logistics in January 2022. She continues to play an important role in planning and executing events, mainly the COA Annual Meeting and other educational offerings, as well as being responsible for the office operations in Montreal. The COA is Meghan’s second foray into non-profit, the first being a government-funded study on medical and educational access to interpreters in remote areas of Quebec for the deaf and hard-of-hearing populations.

Meghan has a degree in Political science with a minor in religious studies, speaks 3 languages, and spent 15 years in the performing arts.

Coordinator, Member Relations and Administration

Pearl Nasirembe joined the Canadian Orthopaedic Association in December 2021 as Coordinator, Member Relations and Administration. She provides direct support to Canadian Orthopedic Association members to increase member satisfaction, member retention, and accurate membership reporting and coordinates membership recruitment campaigns to achieve Association objectives. In addition, Pearl facilitates networking and cultivates member initiatives and new ways of working within the association through initiatives such as Travelling Fellowships.

Pearl has over 12 years of expertise in partnerships, donor relations, development and outreach communications, working with non-profit and corporate organizations in Canada and abroad.

CEO

Cynthia first joined the COA in March of 1999 as an administrative coordinator after working briefly in marketing and client relations in Montreal’s fashion industry.  Throughout the years, her performance excellence has earned her increasingly senior positions, becoming involved in almost every aspect of the COA’s operations, projects, and initiatives.  Her creativity, leadership, and facility to work effectively and professionally with members from coast to coast earned her the role of CEO in 2020.