Dr. Morad Hameed is a trauma surgeon and intensivist at the Vancouver General Hospital (VGH). He is a co-Chief of the VGH Acute Care Surgery Service, the Director of the UBC General Surgery Residency Program, and an Assistant Professor of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He also Chairs of the Research Committee of the Trauma Association of Canada, and the Committee on Acute Surgery and Critical Care of the Canadian Association of General Surgeons. His area of research includes health disparities and access to trauma and acute surgical services and he has published widely in these areas.