Dr. Geoff Ibbotson

Executive Director, Founding Member

Geoff serves as the Executive Director for the Global Surgery Foundation, based in Geneva, Switzerland. He is also the senior health consultant at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). He has more than 25 years of experience in medical humanitarian and disaster relief work. He has served as a front-line surgeon in multiple countries and several conflict zones. He has also led disaster response activities, developed strategic programmes and guided organizational and governance reviews and re-structuring.

While maintaining a busy surgical practice in Canada, he served as the Director of Trauma Services for the North West of Alberta from 2008 to 2016 and was the Chair of the Alberta Provincial Trauma Committee from 2014-16, which coordinated an integrated trauma system for 10 trauma hospitals in Alberta.

He attended medical school at the University of Toronto and completed his training as a general surgeon at the University of Calgary in 2000. Dr. Ibbotson is a fellow of both the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American College of Surgeons, holding academic appointments at both the University of Calgary and the University of Alberta.