Mark Vu is an anesthesiologist and trauma physician at Island Health in Victoria, BC. His clinical interests are in resuscitative medicine, trauma care, crisis resource management, human factors, prehospital emergency care and tactical emergency medical support. Mark completed medical school at the University of British Columbia, his anesthesiology residency at Dalhousie University, and a trauma fellowship at Harborview Medical Centre. He has worked on both coast of Canada, the US, Australia, and Honolulu, Hawaii. Mark has started using phrases like “when I was a trainee”, groans quietly when he gets out of a chair, and has a preference for well crafter dad-jokes. Although he rejects the label, he has been referred to as a senior member of the department.

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Prehospital care, resuscitative medicine, burn trauma, physician mental health.

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Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=-ptvsV8AAAAJ&hl=en

Prehospital use of tranexamic acid for hemorrhagic shock in primary and secondary air medical evacuation

A comparison of a fiberoptic stylet and a bougie as adjuncts to direct laryngoscopy in a manikin-simulated difficult airway

Provincial clinical practice guidelines for the management of major burn trauma

Trauma care, resuscitative medicine, tactical emergency casualty care, human factors, physician mental health.

Quality Committee Chair, Mental Health Advocate, Trauma Services Health Care Informatics Lead

UBC Post Graduate Anesthesiology Resident Master Teacher Award (2010, 2021, 2022, 2024); Island Health Emergency Medicine Off Service Teaching Award 2020; UBC Medical Student Teaching Award 2022; UBC General Practice Anesthesia Resident Master Teacher Award (2011)