Mary Brindle is a pediatric surgeon and Professor or Surgery and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary in Alberta Canada. She is also the Scientific Director of the Alberta Surgery SCN and the Director of the Safe Surgery Safe Systems Program at Ariadne Labs, TH Chan Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. She currently leads work to optimize the performance of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist and works within the ERAS® Society to help advance the rigor and scope of international ERAS® guidelines and develop strategies to improve the implementation of ERAS® pathways on neonatal surgical units.
Selected publications from PubMed
Why Is Pediatric Surgery Still Waiting for Enhanced Recovery?
Brindle ME
JAMA Surg. 2026 Aug 26 doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2026.3713.
Reimagining the surgical safety checklist through a pediatric lens.
Wigen R, Squires K, Pilkington M, Puligandla P, Gonzalez R, Henry M, Brindle M
J Pediatr Surg. 2026 Jul 2;:163283 doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2026.163283.
Understanding barriers and facilitators to pediatric surgical access for rural patients: A qualitative study.
Patel P, Marchand T, Pentz B, MacRobie A, Aziz S, Morris M, Williams K, Brindle M, Daodu O
J Pediatr Surg. 2026 Jun;61(6):163014 doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2026.163014.
Association of gestational choriocarcinoma in a mother and Li-Fraumeni syndrome in her child: The result of a single event?
Sallé J, Brundler MA, Perrier R, Brindle M, Lafay-Cousin L
Fam Cancer. 2026 May 25;25(2) pii: 59. doi: 10.1007/s10689-026-00573-0.
International multidisciplinary consensus recommendations on clinical application of three-dimensional visualization in precision surgery for pediatric liver tumors.
Dong Q, Xiu W, Tang B, Hiyama E, Austin MT, Wu Y, Yuan X, Zhu C, Liu C, Ishibashi H, Tappa KK, Wang H, Sun C, Ma Y, Xi H, Wang J, Zhan J, Ihn K, Shimada M, Zhang M, Brindle ME, Thomas PB, Fumino S, Liu T, Lobe T, Rolle U, Wang S, Zhai X, Koga Y, Kinoshita Y, Bai Y, Li Z, Wen Z, Pan W, Sutyak KM, Giulianotti PC
HPB (Oxford). 2025 Jun;27(6):733-745 doi: 10.1016/j.hpb.2025.03.007.
Residents are exposed to a daily tremendous amount of stress and responsibility in the workplace. This can often cause mental health issues, such as depression, anxiety, and burnout. Unfortunately, many of them are not aware of the importance of mental health and do not have the resources to address it.
With Johnson & Johnson MedTech
Published
Mar 2023
Since the advent of the first surgical procedures, surgeons have always focused on the health of their patients. Unfortunately, they have not traditionally assessed and proactively worked to maintain the own wellbeing. Thankfully, in recent years surgeons have realized that surgeon wellness helps ensure patient wellness. In this program, the American College of Surgeons, in collaboration with Ariadne Labs, examined in detail a range of wellness topics, including an overall philosophy and approach and specific initiatives to help ensure success. The critical areas of mentorship, program development, peer support, coaching, surgical culture, equity, and resilience are all discussed by renowned experts who will offer implementable solutions for individual surgeons, surgical departments, and institutions.
With Johnson & Johnson MedTech
Published
Jul 2022
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