Dr. Nick Carr is a 2025 recipient of the UBC Medical Alumni Association Wallace Wilson Leadership Award.
Nick obtained a BSc in medical genetics from the University of British Columbia (UBC). He then taught school in Nigeria for 2 years before returning to medical school at UBC. He was the Gold Medalist in his graduating medical school class. He interned at the Toronto East General Hospital and then worked as a family doctor in Inuvik in the Canadian Arctic. He returned to Vancouver completing his plastic surgery training at UBC in 1990 followed by a hand and microsurgery fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Nick is a Clinical Professor in Surgery at UBC and has been on staff at Vancouver General Hospital since 1990. He served as residency program director and was chief of plastic surgery at UBC for over a decade. He is an active member in the Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons, Canadian Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, and the NorthWest Society of Plastic Surgeons and has been president of all these organizations. He has also been an active member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, having been the Canadian representative on the ASAPS and ASPS Ethics Committees. He has successfully run Skinworks Surgery Centre, a private aesthetic surgery facility in Vancouver for over two decades.
As head of the UBC Division of Plastic Surgery Nick was instrumental in fund raising and establishing the BC Firefighters Burn and Wound Healing Laboratory and the Patty Clugston Endowed Chair in Breast Reconstruction.
Nick has been actively involved in UBC plastic surgery’s Uganda residency teaching program and has worked there regularly. His hobbies include skiing, biking, fly fishing, and guitar. Nick spends his weekends on his partner Linda’s farm on Galiano Island, where they keep their horses. He has three children, Matthew, Michael, and Lauren. Matthew and Michael are completing their plastic surgery training and Lauren has just started ophthalmology practice.
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