Division of Vascular Surgery

Department of Surgery

Gerald MacKean

Assistant professor

Division of Vascular Surgery

Email: gerald.mackean@nshealth.ca
Phone: 902-473-8506
Fax: 902-473-8507
Mailing Address: 
1796 Summer Street,
Room 4719, Halifax Infirmary
Halifax, NS
B3H 3A7
 

Education

  • MD, Dalhousie University
  • FRCS(C)
  • Vascular Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons Canada

Employment

  • Vascular surgeon, Halifax Infirmary, 1983-present

Teaching

  • Dalhousie Medical School, Dalhousie University

Administrative

  • Chair, Finance Committee, Department of Surgery
  • Chair, Peri-operative Finance Committee, Halifax Infirmary
  • Site chief, Surgery, Halifax Infirmary
  • Heart Health Executive member, Halifax Infirmary
  • Heart Health Development Council, QEII Foundation

Selected publications

  • Burrows C, Miller R, Townsend D, Bellefontaine R, MacKean GL, Orsted HL, Keast DH. Best practice recommendations for the prevention and treatment of venous leg ulcers: Update 2006. Adv Skin Wound Care. 2007 Nov; 20(11):611-21; quiz 622-3.
  • Tromp G, Ogata T, Gregoire L, Goddard KA, Skunca M, Lancaster WD, Parrado AR, Lu Q, Shibamura H, Sakalihasan N, Limet R, Mackean GL, Arthur C, Sueda T, Kuivaniemi H. HLA-DQA is associated with abdominal aortic aneurysms in the Belgian population. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2006 Nov; 1085:392-5.
  • Ogata T, Gregoire L, Goddard KA, Skunca M, Tromp G, Lancaster WD, Parrado AR, Lu Q, Shibamura H, Sakalihasan N, Limet R, MacKean GL, Arthur C, Sueda T, Kuivaniemi H. Evidence for association between HLA-DQA locus and abdominal aortic aneurysms in the Belgian population: A case controlled study. BMC Med Genet. 2006 Jul 31; 7:67.
  • Ogata T, MacKean GL, Cole CW, Arthur C, Andreou P, Tromp G, Kuivaniemi H. The lifetime prevelance of abdominal aortic aneurysm among siblings of aneurysm patients is eight fold higher than among siblings of spouses: An analysis of 187 aneurysm families in Nova Scotia, Canada. J Vasc Surg. 2005 Nov; 42(5):891-7.
  • Ogata T, Shibamura H, Tromp G, Sinha M, Goddard KA, Sakalihasan N, Limet R, MacKean GL, Arthur C, Sueda T, Land S, Kuivaniemi H.  Genetic analysis of polymorphisms in biologically relevant candidate genes in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms. J Vasc Surg. 2005 Jun; 41(6):1036-42.
  • Keast DH, Bowering CK, Evans AW, MacKean GL, Burrows C, D'Souza L. Measure: A proposed assessment framework for developing best practice recommendations for wound assessment. Wound Repair Regen. 2004 May-Jun; 12(3 Suppl):S1-17. Review