D. Gregory Powell
Dwight Gregory Powell  | |
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UBC portrait  | |
| Born | November 24, 1947 Welland, Ontario, Canada  | 
| Died | April 30, 2025 (aged 77) Okotoks, Alberta, Canada  | 
| Occupation | Emergency physician | 
| Known for | Founding Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service (STARS) | 
Dwight Gregory Powell OC AOE FRCPC (November 24, 1947 – April 30, 2025) was a Canadian emergency medicine physician specialist in Foothills, Alberta and a professor of family medicine and emergency medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Calgary. He was also the founder and CEO of the nonprofit Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society (STARS), a helicopter-based emergency transport service in Alberta and British Columbia.