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.

Our Story
Arbutus Medical was founded in 2014 after orthopaedic trauma surgeons from Vancouver General Hospital and a team of biomedical engineers developed an innovative surgical drill technology and a partnership with DEWALTⓇ, designed to meet the needs of low-resource hospitals, providing an affordable, efficient, reliable, and sterile solution to orthopedic surgery. 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.
Most recently, Arbutus Medical has created TrakPak®, a consumable sterile-packed procedure kit that streamlines the orthopedic trauma procedure, skeletal traction. The TrakPak® system provides unprecedented efficiency and helps hospitals avoid large capital expenditures.
Arbutus Medical continues to innovate products using their patented DrillCover Technology and sterile-packed procedure kits alongside their surgical drill platform to help surgeons and patients globally. Today, Arbutus Medical’s products have been used by customers in 40 countries, enabling an estimated 85,000 surgeries and counting.

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