Dr. Frankie Fraulin Accepts Role as Deputy Head of Department: Governance and Physician Services

The Department of Surgery is pleased to announce that Dr. Frankie Fraulin has accepted the role of Deputy Head of Department: Governance and Physician Services, Department of Surgery for the Calgary Zone. 

Dr. Fraulin completed his undergraduate degree, medical degree, and plastic surgery residency at the University of Alberta. He completed fellowships in pediatric plastic surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, microsurgery at the Bernard O’Brien Institute of Microsurgery in Melbourne, Australia, and cosmetic surgery at the Cosmetic Surgery Hospital and Scarborough General Hospital in Toronto. The focus of Dr. Fraulin’s clinical practice is plastic surgery in children including hand and facial trauma, cleft lip and palate, congenital hand and ear problems, skin and soft tissue lesions, including birthmarks, and adolescent breast problems.

Dr. Fraulin is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Calgary and has received several awards for resident and medical student teaching. He has been the Section Chief of Pediatric Surgery and the Facility Site Chief of Surgery at the Alberta Children’s Hospital for over 5 years. With his strong leadership team at the site, he has been successful in accomplishing the goals he initially set out to accomplish for surgery at ACH: optimizing OR time allocation and patient access, supporting a positive work environment, and promoting safety, education and research in pediatric surgery.

Dr. Fraulin is the Brian and Brenda MacNeill Chair in Pediatric Surgery, sits on the Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons Educational Foundation Board, and is a board member of Project Outreach International Child Health Society. He has travelled to Peru and Vietnam with his colleagues from ACH to treat children with burn scars and cleft lip and palate. His current research focus, with his plastic surgery colleagues and residents, includes developing a cleft palate perioperative pathway and developing a prediction rule for pediatric hand fractures. He is also supported by the Alberta Children’s Hospital foundation to begin studying the use of the fractionated CO2 laser on burn scars in children. 

Dr. Fraulin brings elements of success in clinical and academic practice and experience in leadership to this position. Please join us in welcoming Dr. Fraulin to his new role.