Naisan Garraway, CD MD FRCSC FACS
Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine
Medical Director, Trauma Program, Vancouver Coastal Health
Western Canada Region Chief ACS Committee on Trauma (Region 11)
Associate Medical Director Canadian Forces Trauma Training Centre (West)
Active Staff: Vancouver General Hospital
City: Vancouver
Hospital Authority: Vancouver Coastal Health
Clinical Office Address:
Trauma Services
855 West 12th Avenue
Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9
Focus
- General surgery
- Trauma
- Adult Critical Care
Bio
Dr. Garraway completed Medical School at the University of Alberta after joining the Canadian Armed Forces. He finished a Family Medicine Residency at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto. He then served four years as a military GP in CFB Shilo Manitoba. During this time he also served as the Canadian Military Senior Medical Advisor during a seven-month tour with NATO in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In 2001 he began a General Surgical residency at UBC in Vancouver. Dr Garraway then completed a one-year trauma and two-year critical care fellowship at UBC. He has served 4 tours of duty in Afghanistan and one in Iraq since 2006. He is currently the Medical Director of the Trauma Program at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) and a General/Trauma Surgeon and ICU Physician on staff at VGH.
Dr. Garraway is currently still in the Canadian Armed Forces as a Reservist and is the Associate Medical Director for the Canadian Forces Trauma Training Centre (West).