David K. Chan MD MEd FRCPC

Biography

Dr. David Chan is a University of Toronto alumnus who received his MD degree in 1998 and finished his Adult Neurology residency training in 2005. He also completed the Department of Medicine Clinician-Educator Training Program and his Master of Health Professional Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) in 2004. He has been a full-time staff neurologist at St. Michael’s Hospital since 2005, with a subspecialty interest in electromyography and neuromuscular diseases. He was a Course Director in the MD Program from 2007 to 2019, first for Brain and Behaviour (2007-2016), and subsequently for Concepts, Patients & Communities 3 in the new Foundations Curriculum (2016-2019). He has won teaching awards from the Faculty of Medicine (2015 W.T. Aikins Award for Excellence in Course/Program Development and Coordination), Department of Medicine (2015 William Goldie Award in Education), Division of Neurology (2008 Faculty Teaching Award), and the Fitzgerald Academy/St. Michael’s Hospital (2010 Board of Directors’ Complete Physician Award, 2007 & 2010 PBL Teacher Award, 2008 Gerald Wong Undergraduate Teaching Award, and 2006 Outstanding Postgraduate Teacher Award). He is currently the Residency Program Director for Adult Neurology at the University of Toronto.

About the Award

These awards are named after William Thomas Aikins, the first Dean of the Faculty of Medicine after its reorganization in1887. They are the Faculty’s most prestigious awards in the MD Program. They were established to recognize and formally reward outstanding teachers in the areas of Individual Teaching Performance (Foundations and Clerkship), Development and Use of Educational Innovations, and Course / Program Development and Coordination. Recipients of these awards have significantly contributed to high-quality undergraduate teaching by establishing and integrating new and effective methods of instruction into the curriculum.