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.