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 Education at OISE in 2004. He has been a full-time staff neurologist at St. Michael’s Hospital since 2005, subspecializing in EMG 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 CPC 3 (2016-2019). He has won teaching awards from the Faculty of Medicine (2015 & 2020 W.T. Aikins Awards 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 Fitzgerald Academy/St. Michael’s Hospital (2010 Board of Directors’ Complete Physician Award, 2007 & 2010 PBL Teacher Awards, 2008 Gerald Wong Undergraduate Teaching Award, and 2006 Outstanding Postgraduate Teacher Award). In 2021, he received the A.B. Baker Teacher Recognition Award from the American Academy of Neurology and the Canadian Association for Medical Education Certificate of Merit.

About the Award

This award, also established in 2003, recognizes outstanding contributions of faculty members who demonstrate excellence in teaching and serve as mentors and advocates to postgraduate medical trainees. The award may acknowledge continuous or long- term excellence in instruction, career counseling, promotion of collegiality, or role modeling for postgraduate trainees.