Lead, Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity & Social Justice, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health
Co-Director, Office of Leadership Education, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba
Associate Editor, BMJ Leader
Ming-Ka Chan 陳明嘉 (she/her) is a Chinese settler who immigrated to Turtle Island (currently known as Canada) at the age of six and is grateful to be living, working, and playing on Treaty 1 Territory & the homeland of the Metis Nation (currently known as Winnipeg). She has been a Pediatric Clinician Educator at the University of Manitoba since 1999. Her focus is within the intersection of social justice and leadership education.
Nationally, at the Canadian Association for Medical Education, she is the Planning Committee Chair for the Canadian Leadership Institute for Medical Education (CLIME 2.0) - a 3-day leadership intensive for health professions educators. Within resident leadership education, she is the Founder and Co-Facilitator, Annual Canadian Pediatric Resident Leadership Conference which has been running since 2001. Internationally, she is a founding member (since 2016) and current Chair, Sanokondu Executive (an international learning community dedicated to fostering health professional leadership education worldwide: seewww.sanokondu.com).
Clinically, she is a Pediatric hospitalist and provides remote outpatient telehealth and in person consultative care organized under Jordan’s Principle for the past two years. She was part of a primary care clinic for children in foster care for 18 years.
She is married to a community gastroenterologist/hepatologist with two teenagers and thrives on the outdoors, Pilates, gardening and mystery novels.