Naisan Garraway

Dr. Naisan Garraway is a clinical associate professor with the Department of Surgery at the University of British Columbia, having earned his MD and BSc at the University of Alberta. He currently serves as a trauma and acute care surgeon and intensive care unit physician at Vancouver General Hospital and is the medical director of the Regional Trauma Program at Vancouver Coastal Health. Dr. Garraway previously served in the Canadian Armed Forces for 32 years, completing 4 tours of duty in Afghanistan and one in Iraq. 

Dr. Garraway's research interests center on enhancing patient care and outcomes in trauma settings. He has contributed to numerous clinical trials and observational studies, notably the Closed Or Open after Laparotomy (COOL) trial investigating severe complicated intra-abdominal sepsis. His broader research contributions span diverse areas, including guided blood transfusion of trauma patients with rotational thromboelastometry and the use of venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) as a salvage strategy for blunt cardiac injury in multisystem trauma. Through his work, Dr. Garraway continues to advance emergency surgery for trauma and acute care patients. Currently, he is involved in a collaboration with the Ottawa Hospital to evaluate a refined version of the CANBLEED score — a novel clinical risk stratification tool that estimates the risk of major bleeding for trauma patients — as well as a new study aiming to derive and validate a personalized risk stratification tool for venous thromboembolism in trauma patients.