Kwan-leung Chan BSc, MSc, MD, FRCPC

Dr. Kwan-Leung Chan is a Cardiologist at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute and The Ottawa Hospital. He is also a Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Ottawa.

Dr. Chan earned a BSc, MSc and MD from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. After doing his internship at the Health Science Centre in Winnipeg, he did residencies in Internal Medicine at the Toronto East General Hospital and at the University of Ottawa. In 1982, he was named Chief Resident of Internal Medicine at the National Defence Medical Centre in Ottawa, and in 1984, he became Chief Resident in Cardiology at the Heart Institute.

He was certified as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (FRCPC) in Internal Medicine in 1983 and Cardiology in 1984.

Dr. Chan sits on the Executive Committee of the Canadian Society of Echocardiography and is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Echocardiography.

Dr. Chan’s research interests include valvular heart disease, infective endocarditis and aortic diseases. He has a special interest in the application of ultrasound in the study of cardiac structure and function and has been actively involved in continuing medical education in this area.