About Us
– Lawrence Buchan, CEO, Co-Founder
Who we are
We are a team of motivated professionals committed to providing surgical access to patients worldwide.
Arbutus Medical is named for a distinctive tree; native to the west coast where we are located.

How It Started
In 2015, co-founders Lawrence Buchan, Michael Cancilla, and Elise Huisman worked with orthopedic surgeons from Uganda to find a solution that could bring surgery to low-resource hospitals that couldn’t afford expensive surgical drills. In many developing countries, frequent automobile injuries drive high demand for desperately needed orthopedic surgery, but specialized drills are often unavailable, and manual drills are slow and unsterile. They designed a simple solution: a waterproof, sterilizable cover that turns an inexpensive hardware drill into a sterile surgical device to safely perform surgical bone drilling.
This innovation led to Arbutus Medical growing its offerings and creating a line of surgical devices that are FDA-cleared, and licensed by Health Canada. We continue to innovate to reduce the cost of healthcare around the world.

Meet the people committed to this mission
Lawrence Buchan
CEO, Co-Founder
Michael Cancilla
Sr. Director of Product, Co-Founder
Geoff Borgmann
Director of Trauma Sales
Radu Postole
Lead Product Designer
Derek Wolf
Channel Sales Manager
John Kodosky
Medical Science Liaison
Nora Wirth
Office Manager
Maha Mardini
Production Technician
Jeff Kennelly
Production Manager
Mark Ashton
Supply Chain Manager
Carson Studders
Production Engineering Specialist
Norman Charles Mpaata
Field Biomedical Engineer
Kok Lun, Li
Production Assembler