Christopher Nguan

Dr. Nguan is a Kidney Transplant Urologist, operating at Vancouver General Hospital since 2006 where he is the Surgical Director of Renal Transplantation. Dr. Nguan is a Surgeon Scientist, appointed as Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia through the Department of Urologic Sciences (DUS). His main areas of research are twofold: research in Applied Sciences revolving around advanced technologies for medicine and surgery including computer vision, AR/VR, diagnostic imaging, and machine learning, and a second research arm in basic and translational science related to cell/tissue/organ preservation, diagnostics, organ modification and transplant outcomes. He has authored over 90 peer reviewed publications and is named on 6 novel patents. He previously held the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) position with UBC spinoff company Sonic Incytes which is now a successful commercial company, and now is the CMO of UBC startup AVIVO which has developed technology able to convert A blood and organ types to Universal type O. As Co-Founder of the Collective Open Source Medical Innovations for COVID-19 (COSMIC) during the pandemic, Dr. Nguan serves and President and Director for this crowdsourced nonprofit which has open sourced critical respiratory support devices globally.

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urology, kidney transplantation, surgical robotics, medical ethics, quality and safety, medical education, computer vision, AR/VR/mixed reality, structured light, big data, ultrasound, medical imaging

Over 17 years as surgeon scientist at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver General Hospital.  Academic appointment with UBC and Surgical Director of Kidney Transplant Program for over 10 years.  Postgraduate Program Director for UBC Urology for 10 years. Chief Medical Officer of UBC startup AVIVO and previous CMO of Sonic Incytes, now commercial. Regulatory experience as currently serving as elected member of the Board of Directors of The College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC.

Undergraduate degree with honors at Dalhousie University, Medical School at DAL, Residency at UBC, Fellowship in Transplantation and Robotics at UWO.