Speaker: Dr. Joseph Chu

Dr. Chu graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto in 1978. He subsequently completed his residency training in Internal Medicine and Neurology at University of Toronto obtaining his FRCPC in both specialties. He opened a private Neurological consultative practice in Etobicoke in 1984 with special interests in electromyography and clinical neuromuscular disorders. Other areas of interests include Stroke, Epilepsy, Movement Disorders including Botox injections and Dementia. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine (Neurology) at the University of Toronto and is an associate staff Neurologist at the Toronto Western Hospital-University Health Network. He is also a consultant Neurologist at the William Osler Health System in Toronto. He was past president of the Chinese Canadian Medical Society of Ontario. In addition, he had published extensively in peer review journals on the Epidemiology of Cerebrovascular Diseases among Chinese-Canadians. He was Chairman of the Research Committee, Chinese Canadian Council of the Heart & Stroke Foundation and now the Chinese Canadian Heart and Brain Association (CCHABA). He has been a popular invited visiting Professor giving lectures in Hong Kong, Peoples’ Republic of China, Taiwan and USA. Since 2020, Dr Chu had been leading a team of researchers/clinicians in carrying out population-based research on the epidemiology of COVID-19 and its cardiac and neurological complications among visible minorities in Ontario. His research work is supported by the Ontario Ministry of Health, the Ontario Health Data Platform (OHDP), Department of Medicine, University of Toronto and CCHABA.