About
Dr. Carrie Kollias is Co-Director of Mentorship & Wellness at UBC Orthopedics, Associate Clinical Professor UBC Orthopedics and Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon at BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver, Canada. She is a speaker and surgeon health researcher with experience leading national studies of wellbeing in Orthopedic Surgery trainees and surgeons in both Canada and Australia. Carrie has a track record in leading transformation of workplace cultures, and improving clinician wellness. She presents frequently on these topics as an invited speaker. Carrie has completed a Master of Business Administration (with Distinction) from Imperial College London, which informs her approach to growing healthy workplace culture and driving innovation within the healthcare sector.​ Carrie joined the team at BC Children's in September 2024. She previously served as Deputy Director of Orthopedics at Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne and Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon after immigrating to Australia in 2018. Prior to that, she worked as a consultant surgeon in southern Alberta where she built adult Limb Deformity Reconstruction and Pediatric Orthopedic services from 2012-2018. Carrie is known as an innovator in systems and procedures and was the first surgeon in Canada to perform a leg lengthening using the ‘Precice’ lengthening nail (remote controlled) in 2014.
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Dr Kollias completed her undergraduate degree at University of Alberta, followed by Medical School and Orthopedic training at University of Calgary. She then went on to complete fellowships in Paediatric Orthopedics and combined Adult/Paediatric Limb Reconstruction (Limb Deformity) in Melbourne, Australia through Royal Children’s Hospital and various adult centers, where she acquired expertise in limb lengthening and deformity correction using Taylor Spatial Frame as well as other devices.Dr Kollias is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada (FRCSC) as well as a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS).
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She has previously served as an elected board member for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta (provincial medical regulator), and Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Regional Advisory Committee. Carrie’s main Orthopaedic interests include Paediatric Orthopaedics (Foot & Ankle, child/baby hip/trauma), and Limb Deformity Reconstruction. She is the author of children’s book ‘Maria’s Marvelous Bones’ (published 2018, winner of International 2019 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards (1st place in STEM, 1st place in Health). Dr Kollias loves teaching various clinicians and awarded the Tass Paxinos Award for Excellence in Orthopedic Teaching by the Australian Orthopedic Association in 2023, as voted by the Orthopedic Registrars in the State of Victoria.
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