Chi-Ming Chow

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Chi-Ming Chow
NationalityCanadian
Alma mater McGill University, Montréal, Québec
Occupation(s)Cardiologist, St. Michael's Hospital
Board of Directors, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario

Chi-Ming Chow is a Canadian cardiologist at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is often interviewed on national media about issues involving cardiovascular health, [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] and is regarded as an influential advocate for heart health in the Canadian Chinese community. [6]

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Career

Chow is an attending staff cardiologist at St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is also a Professor [7] in the Department of Medicine, University of Toronto. He has an undergraduate degree in computer science from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He completed his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1990 at McGill University, in Montréal, Québec and a Masters of Science in Epidemiology, also at McGill University, in 1997. He completed his residency training in family medicine, internal medicine and cardiology at McGill University. He then pursued a clinical and research echocardiography fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

He had won multiple local and national teaching awards to recognize his teaching and innovation in medical education. He is a winner of the Ruedy Award for Innovation in Medical Education presented by the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada and Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine [8] and the 2009 William Goldie Prize for Innovation by the Department of Medicine, University of Toronto.

He is currently a board member and media spokesperson for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario. To recognize his service to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, he won the Award For Volunteer Excellence in 2007 and the Rick Gallop Award for Pioneering Leadership in 2008.

He participates actively in health promotion and research among ethnic Chinese in Canada. He was awarded the Best Community Service Award by the Association of Chinese Canadian Entrepreneurs in 2010. [9]

Selected publications

Software

Chow created a number of software packages for smartphones, including CardioMath (a calculator for commonly used formulas in cardiovascular medicine cardiology) [10] [11]

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  8. "John Ruedy Award for Innovation in Medical Education". Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 3 November 2010.
  9. "Award Winners 2010". Association of Chinese Canadian Entrepreneurs. Archived from the original on 19 September 2010. Retrieved 3 November 2010.
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