Graham Roche-Nagle

Medicine, Class of 1998

Dr Graham Roche-Nagle (FRCSI ) is Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Staff Vascular Surgeon, Division of Vascular Surgery University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

A native of Co. Waterford, following graduation from RCSI, he completed his clinical training on the Irish Senior Registrar Training programme. He then completed a two-year fellowship in vascular surgery at Toronto General Hospital and St Michael’s Hospital Toronto.

Dr Roche-Nagle is certified in general vascular surgery from RCSI and also holds certification from the European Board for Vascular Surgery. In addition, has been awarded a MBA in Healthcare Management (University College Dublin) and a Masters in Medical Education (Queen's University, Belfast).

Dr Roche-Nagle was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Vascular Surgery University Health Network, Toronto in July 2009 and was promoted to an Associate Professor in 2016. He was cross appointed to the Department of Interventional Radiology in 2012.

He is the founder and lead of the Canadian Vascular Quality Initiative, an organisation designed to improve the quality, safety, effectiveness and cost of vascular healthcare by collecting and exchanging information.

Dr Roche-Nagle has served on the executive of the Canadian Society for Vascular Surgery for the past eight years and on the residency training committee at the University of Toronto. He has authored almost 100 peer-reviewed publications and has presented his research nationally and internationally.

His specialty interests include open/endovascular abdominal and thoracic aortic aneurysm repair, peripheral artery bypass/intervention, carotid artery surgery, arterio-venous fistula construction, venous disease, as well as thoracic outlet syndrome.