Dr. Andre Grobler is the recipient of the 2026 SMA Board of Directors Appreciation Award. He joined the SMA Board of Directors in 2017 and served as the SMA President in 2024-25. Raised and educated in South Africa, he studied medicine at the University of the Free State and worked in trauma and family medicine for two years before moving to Saskatchewan in 2008. 

In 2014, he moved to Prince Albert to complete the one-year Surgical Skills Program and remained in the city to practise in a variety of roles. Today, Dr. Grobler works in family medicine, emergency medicine, obstetrics and GP surgery, and as a hospitalist. He is also director of the Enhanced Surgical Skills Program in Prince Albert for the Department of Academic Family Medicine. He also travels to northern communities where he manages care for expectant mothers before they travel to Prince Albert.  

Dr. Grobler left a lasting impression as SMA President. His goal was to meet as many physicians as possible, preferably in their home communities. He reshaped the President and Vice-President’s Tour around that goal, meeting physicians in their clinics and communities before gathering at the official tour stop each evening. 

Known for his honesty and candour, Dr. Grobler brought a direct voice to conversations with the Minister of Health, Ministry of Health officials, health-system leaders and physicians across the province.