Dr. Ahmer Karimuddin is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of General Surgery and the current UBC General Surgery Residency Program Co-Director. Additionally, he represents the 17,000 physicians of British Columbia as the President of Doctors of BC. He has also served as President of the General Surgeons of BC and the BC Surgical Society, and is the current Program Chair of the Canadian Surgical Forum. As a practicing colorectal surgeon at Vancouver’s St. Paul’s Hospital, his clinical focus has been on colorectal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, laparoscopic colorectal surgery, transanal surgical techniques and anorectal diseases. Dr. Karimuddin’s research, with over 100 peer-reviewed publications, has focused on his clinical interests, along with patient reported outcomes, surgical education, and health policy. Dr Ahmer Karimuddin completed medical school at the University of Western Ontario, followed by General Surgery training at the University of Saskatchewan, including a year spent doing research on graduate medical education. He completed a fellowship in Colorectal Surgery at the University of Toronto.