Andrea Chan

Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery

Dr. Chan's research interests include paediatric wrist and elbow trauma clinical outcomes, sports wrist injury prevention, quality improvement (paediatric and adult hand and upper limb trauma clinical pathway improvement, hand and upper extremity transitional and complex care models).

Dr. Chan graduated from the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine in 2012. Prior to her medical school training, she completed her Masters of Arts in 2008 at McMaster University in the field of forensic anthropology. Following medical school, she completed her residency in Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Toronto in 2017. Dr. Chan then completed a 1-year fellowship in adult hand and upper extremity in London Ontario at the Roth|McFarlane Hand and Upper Limb Centre (HULC) where her clinical work focused on shoulder, elbow, wrist & hand trauma, arthroplasty, arthroscopy as well as peripheral nerve injury. Her research in London focused on the biomechanical analysis of wrist reconstruction techniques for carpal instability. She then pursued a second 6-month fellowship in pediatric hand and upper extremity at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.