Bassam Masri

PROFESSOR

Division:
Reconstruction & Oncology

Hospital Site:
Vancouver – Vancouver General Hospital

bas.masri@ubc.ca

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Dr. Masri joined the Department of Orthopaedics at UBC as a Clinical Instructor and as a hip and knee reconstruction surgeon at VGH as well as a musculoskeletal oncologist at both Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) and the BC Cancer Agency. He then progressed through the ranks and became Head of the Division of Reconstructive Orthopaedics at VGH and UBC Hospitals, and Head of the Division of Lower Limb Reconstruction and Oncology at UBC. His current academic rank is that of Professor at UBC. He was the Head of the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of British Columbia and VGH and UBC Hospitals, having served since April 1, 2007, and completed his term at the end of 2020.

Dr. Masri has been involved in multiple research projects leading to numerous presentation and publication. At last count, he has almost 500 invited presentations, 300 scientific presentation, 240 peer-reviewed published articles, two patents and 60 book chapters. He has been invited professor or speaker on 210 occasions. He has been involved in the supervision of 8 Masters and PhD students, and two post-doctoral fellows. He has also been involved in the training of over 130 fellows from around the world, in addition to many more resident at UBC.

Dr. Masri has served as Surgeon-in-Chief of VGH and UBC Hospitals from 2011 until 2018. He also founded the UBC Centre for Surgical Innovation in 2006 and was its head until it was absorbed as a part of UBC Hospital in 2017. He also served as the Regional Medical Director for Surgical Services for The Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, which involved the primarily urban areas of the Greater Vancouver area, from 2015-2018. Dr. Masri has also served on many local, regional and national committees related to academic and administrative issues. He served as President of the Canadian Orthopaedic Association 2014-2015. He is a member of a number of prestigious scholarly societies (by invitation only) including the Hip Society, the Knee Society and the International Hip Society. In addition, he is a member of many other societies.

Along with colleagues from UBC, he has been the recipient of the Hip Society Charnley Award on two occasions and the Hip Society Stinchfield Award on one occasion. Along with his team, he was also the recipient of the Second Innovation Academy Award by the International Consortium on Prevention & Infection Control, Geneva, Switzerland, June 2013. He was also the recipient of the inaugural Cy Frank Award to recognizing excellence in innovation; Canadian Orthopaedic Foundation in conjunction with the Canadian Orthopaedic Research Society (CORS), 2017, among many other honours and awards. In November 2017, Dr. Masri was the recipient of the Pier Giorgio Marchetti, M.D. Lifetime Achievement Award by an International Alumnus from the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.