Gavin Stuart

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Professor
Gavin Stuart
FRCPC FCAHS
Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
In office
2003–2015
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BornGavin Charles E. Stuart
Manitoba, Canada

Gavin Charles E. Stuart is a Canadian medical academic who is Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UBC Faculty of Medicine, where he formerly was Dean of Medicine (2003-2015) and Vice-Provost Health (2009-2016). [1]

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Stuart was born in Manitoba and attended medical school at the University of Western Ontario. He pursued postgraduate training in obstetrics and gynecology and then a fellowship in Gynecologic Oncology at Wayne State University School of Medicine. He has held faculty appointments at Wayne State University and the Tom Baker Cancer Centre, where later served as the centre's director and Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. In 1999, he was appointed as Vice-President of the Alberta Cancer Board. [2]

Stuart is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada (elected 1980). [3] He also is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and former Chair of the Board of the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada. [4] [5]

A lawsuit was filed against Stuart in 2008 for defamation of character by Dr. Cathy Popadiuk. [6] [7] The grounds of the lawsuit were a 2002 letter from Stuart that criticized Popadiuk's "research, teaching and the way she treated her patients". [7] The legal proceedings and outcome of the court case have not been made publicly available. An independent review in 2008 concluded that Stuart's allegations to Popadiuk's superiors, which led to her "losing her status as an associate dean, losing access to support staff and effectively being shut out of decision-making on her own case", [6] were the cause of subsequent workplace harassment and unfair treatment. [6] [8]

References

  1. ↑ "Gavin Stuart | Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology". obgyn.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  2. ↑ Gavin Stuart, MD, UBC Alumni Profiles, retrieved 2016-04-27
  3. ↑ "Stuart, Gavin Charles E." royalcollege.ca. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  4. ↑ Fellows directory, Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, archived from the original on 2017-05-23, retrieved 2016-04-27
  5. ↑ "Gavin Stuart". Genome BC. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  6. 1 2 3 , CBC https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/st-john-s-prof-maltreated-external-review-finds-1.755942 , retrieved 2025-12-10{{citation}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. 1 2 , The Telegram https://www.saltwire.com/newfoundland-labrador/doctor-harassed-report-finds-125877 , retrieved 2025-12-10{{citation}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ↑ "Popadiuk Inquiry" . Retrieved 2025-12-10.
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