Gavin C. E. Stuart

Gavin Charles E. Stuart is a Canadian medical academic who is Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UBC Faculty of Medicine, where he formerly was Dean of Medicine (2003-2015) and Vice-Provost Health (2009-2016).

Stuart was born in Manitoba and attended medical school at the University of Western Ontario. He pursued postgraduate training in obstetrics and gynecology and then a fellowship in Gynecologic Oncology at Wayne State University School of Medicine. He has held faculty appointments at Wayne State University and the Tom Baker Cancer Centre, where later served as the centre's director and Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. In 1999, he was appointed as Vice-President of the Alberta Cancer Board.

Stuart is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada (elected 1980). He also is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and former Chair of the Board of the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada.

Legal Issues A lawsuit was filed against Stuart in 2008 for defamation of character by Dr. Cathy Popadiuk. The grounds of the lawsuit were a 2002 letter from Stuart that criticized Popadiuk's "research, teaching and the way she treated her patients".