Associate Professor
University of British Columbia, Canada
Dr. Roxana Geoffrion is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and has a full time practice as a urogynecologist at the Centre for Pelvic Floor at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver. Dr. Geoffrion completed her medical degree at McGill University and her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Ottawa. She then pursued subspecialty fellowship training in Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Calgary. Dr. Geoffrion is the director of the UBC Urogynecology Fellowship and the Head of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Research Committee. She mentors various trainees and also her peers in the performance of minimally invasive pelvic floor surgeries. In addition, she has a strong research interest in competency-based surgical education and has completed randomized controlled trials for teaching and evaluation of surgical skills in gynecologic surgery. Her other research interests include evidence-based patient education and knowledge translation in the area of pelvic floor health through whiteboard animation (www.bepelvichealthaware.ca), as well as surgical outcomes and sexual health of patients with pelvic floor disorders. She holds competitive grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Women's Health Research Institute and Health Research BC.