Dr Chan graduated from National University of Singapore School of Medicine and is a member with Royal College of Surgery, Edinburgh (Emergency Medicine). He is an accredited Emergency Physician with Specialists Accreditation Board of Singapore.
 
Dr Chan completed a two years fellowship in emergency ultrasonography and simulation with Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City and obtained membership with American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS). He helped to develop weekly ultrasound scan shifts with SingHealth Emergency Medicine Residency Program (SHEMRP) after his return from the fellowship and is currently a Core Faculty with SHEMRP.
 
As an educator, Dr Chan has various teaching positions with the local medical schools. He is a Senior Clinical Lecturer with Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, an Adjunct Assistant Professor with Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School and a teaching faculty with Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. He is also an international fellow with Harvard-Macy Program for Educators in the Health Professions (Boston, US). He sits in multiple local examination boards as an item writer and examiner, namely with the Master in Medicine for Emergency Medicine (MMed EM), Emergency Medicine Exit Examination and the American Board of Medical Specialty-International (ABMS-I). He also leads the MMed EM Part B Short-Answer Question Examination and EM Clinical Exit Examination committees.
 
Dr Chan’s special interest is in the use of Point-of-Care ultrasound (POCUS) in evaluating undifferentiated patients presenting to the emergency department in critical conditions. He teaches ultrasound regularly at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine and Alexandra Academy of Critical and Emergency Sonography (AACES) at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital. He is currently the Program Director for the basic and advanced POCUS courses which he developed with SingHealth Institute of Medical Simulation (SIMS).”