Biography
Dr. Gavin Stuart is a professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He served as the dean of the Faculty of Medicine at UBC from 2003 to 2015 and as UBC’s vice-provost health from 2009 to 2016. He has previously been the chair of the Gynecologic Cancer Intergroup, co-chair of the Gynecology Site Committee of the NCI Canada and president of the Society of Gynecologic Oncology of Canada. He is the past-chair of the Board of the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada. He is also a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
Dr. Stuart received his medical training at the University of Western Ontario and pursued further training in Gynecologic Oncology at Wayne State University in Detroit. He remains an active teacher, clinician and researcher at UBC. As an academic clinician, he works with the gynecologic oncology team at Vancouver General Hospital and BC Cancer. He also sits on the board of a number of public entities including LifeSciences BC and Genome BC.
