About
Dr. Brendan Chan is Consultant Paediatrician who specialises in acute and emergency medicine, childhood conditions, neurodevelopmental conditions, and neonatal medicine. He sees private patients at the Epworth Hospital, Albert Street.
Dr. Chan earned his Bachelor's in medicine at the University of Melbourne, after which he completed a medical internship, before undertaking training in Paediatrics at the Royal Children's Hospital in 2003. During this time, Dr. Chan gained knowledge and expertise in oncology, neurology, neonatal intensive care, general medicine, and child and adolescent mental health. He completed this training in 2012 and gained a fellowship with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
Since his Consultant appointment, Dr. Chan has centered his practice around neonatal and emergency department medicine and sees children up to the age of 17. He is also an active member of the teaching community, as Dr. Chan regularly teaches undergraduate and postgraduate medical students at Epworth Freemasons Hospital and The Northern Hospital. In his neonatal medicine practice, Dr. Chan is able to admit babies to the Special Care Nursery at Epworth Freemasons Hospital and St. Vincent's Hospital for conditions such as Jaundice, Newborn infection, prematurity, and newborn premature lung disease.
MBBS The University of Melbourne 2001
FRACP Royal Australasian College of Physicians 2012