Teresa Chan
Clinical Professor, Medicine

Dr. Teresa Chan is a clinical professor (part time) at McMaster University. In July 2023, she became the founding dean of the Toronto Metropolitan University. At McMaster, she has previously been the Associate Dean, Continuing Professional Development and the Assistant Dean, Program for Faculty Development in the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster from 2019-2021. She was the founding Competency Committee director for the RCPSC emergency medicine residency program. She has also recently completed her term as the Director of the McMaster Area of Focused Competency for Clinician Educators (2018-2021).

She is a nationally-recognized researcher & educator. She has received the 2021 Early Career Medical Educator's Champion award, the 2019 Canadian Association of Medical Education Meridith Marks New Educator Award, the 2020 Ian Stiell Researcher of the Year award from the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians, 2017 Young Educator's Award from the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada, and 2021 Royal College Award for Early-Career Leadership in Medical Education. In 2021, she was also selected as one of McMaster's University Scholars for a four-year term, an award given to only a handful mid-career researchers within the entire university.

She is the national RCPSC's Specialty Committee Chair of the Clinician Educator Area of Focused Competency program. She serves on the editorial boards of six journals including: Academic Medicine, Journal of Graduate Medical Education, Perspectives in Medical Education, AEM Education & Training, and the Journal of Education and Training in Emergency Medicine (JETem). Dr. Chan completed her medical school at Western University (Go Meds2008!), and then completed her residency in the RCPSC emergency medicine training at McMaster University. In 2016, she completed a Masters of Health Profession Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2023, she completed her Masters of Business Administration, from the University of the People.

Dr. Chan is very well known for her scholarship in faculty development and online education research. She is one of the founding members of the METRIQ Study group. She is the Chief Strategic Officer for the CanadiEM digital community of practice. She is a Senior Advisor of the international Faculty Incubator program for the Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (ALiEM) group. For ALiEM, she has also served on their Editorial Board and was a lead of the Medical Education in Cases Series (www.aliem.com/medic). Dr. Chan is also interested in developing medical education innovations (and evaluating them!). For instance, she has co-developed and led the evaluation serious game about emergency department flow called GridlockED (www.gridlockedgame.com)!