Kevin Chan Explained

Birth Date:1972
Nationality:Canadian
Occupation:physician
Known For:Chair of Pediatrics at Memorial University of Newfoundland
Notable Works:KidECare

Kevin Chan is The Corporate Medical Executive at London Health Sciences Centre, where he also works as a pediatric emergency physician. He was the Chief of Women's and Children's Health at Trillium Health Partners, and Chair of Pediatrics at Memorial University of Newfoundland[1] and Clinical Chief of Children's Health at the Janeway Children's Health and Rehabilitation Centre in St. John's, Newfoundland. He previously worked as an emergency physician at The Hospital for Sick Children.

He received a Bachelor of Science B.Sc. (Hon.) from the University of Toronto, an MD from the University of Ottawa, an MPH From Harvard University, and an MBA from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

In 1994, Dr. Chan co-founded the Student University Network for Social and International Health or Reseau Etudiants Universitaire Pour la Sociale et Sante Internationale. He also helped found the Centre for International Health and Development at the University of Ottawa and the Centre for International Health at the University of British Columbia.

In 2001-2002, he was co-chair of the Canadian Society for International Health, and between 2001-2003 he was President of the International Child Health Section of the Canadian Paediatric Society. He was the recipient of the Chris Krogh award Prize from the Global Health Education Consortium (now Consortium of University for Global Health).He is a former president of the Emergency Medicine Section of the Canadian Pediatric Society, an executive member of the Section on International Child Health of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and currently chairs the Acute Care Committee of the Canadian Paediatric Society.

He is the winner of the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship from Harvard University in 2002. In 2003, he won the Yale Johnson & Johnson Physician Scholarship in International Health. He has also been a recipient of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Scholarship.[2]

Chan has worked extensively in Malawi, Uganda, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, as well as in complex humanitarian emergency situations in Rwanda and Kosovo. He is a co-founder of KidECare, a pediatric urgent care clinic in Toronto.

Kevin is the brother of Arnold Chan.[3]

He is frequently and should not be confused with Dr Kevin C. Chan, a community pediatrician in Kanata, Ontario.

Notes and References

  1. News: Pediatricians are concerned about climate change, and here's why. May 8, 2018. CNN. 11 January 2019.
  2. Web site: Harvard School of Public Health Student Kevin Chan Wins $160,000 Trudeau Foundation Scholarship. June 23, 2005. January 11, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20060112044300/http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/press/releases/press06232005.html. January 12, 2006.
  3. News: 'Full of energy and passion': Liberal MP Arnold Chan remembered as advocate for Canadians at funeral. September 23, 2017. CBC News. January 11, 2019.