Avery B. Nathens, MD, PhD, FACS

Dr. Nathens is currently the Division Head in General Surgery and Director of Trauma at St. Michael's Hospital, in Toronto, Canada and a Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto. He is a practicing trauma surgeon and epidemiologist with a focus on trauma system design. He is an active member of the Provincial Trauma Network, and the National Trauma Registry Advisory Committee and holds a Canada Research Chair in Systems of Trauma Care. Internationally, he chairs the National Trauma Databank Sub-Committee and the committee overseeing the Trauma Quality Improvement Program.

Dr. Nathens has had extensive experience evaluating trauma system effectiveness and patient flow within a system and has published many landmark peer-reviewed papers in the Lancet, NEJM and JAMA focusing on trauma system design and implementation.