NPSA Annual Meeting 2025

2025 North Pacific Surgical Society President is Dr. Chad Geoffrey Ball. Dr. Ball is a Clinical Professor of Surgery and Oncology at the University of Calgary. He currently practices Hepatobiliary, Pancreas, Trauma, and Acute Care Surgery at the Foothills Medical. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Alberta (physiology), graduate degree at the University of British Columbia (MSc), medical school at the University of Toronto, general surgery residency at the University of Calgary, trauma and surgical critical care fellowships at Emory University, and his hepato-pancreato-biliary fellowship at Indiana University.

Dr. Ball was the youngest chief to be named to the Southern Alberta trauma service in 2013. With over 250 peer-reviewed publications, and 35 book chapters, and is an international speaker on a broad range of surgical and resuscitation topics. His research areas of interest include clinical injury care, hybrid operating environments, parabolic spaceflight surgery where he co-lead a research team with NASA on surgical techniques in zero gravity environments, randomized controlled trials within HPB surgery, and national surgical manpower analyses. He is on a broad range of surgical society executive committees, coeditor of the Canadian Journal of Surgery, and host of the podcast Cold Steel. He also remains the director for both the HPB and acute care surgery fellowship programs.