David 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 (2020 and 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.