Dr. Natalie Chan is a neonatologist and Medical Director of the Intensive Care Nursery Follow-Up Program at the University of California, San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital – West Bay where she oversees a program serving patients and families in San Francisco and in outreach clinics across Northern California, assessing the developmental progress of children who have a higher risk of challenges due to underlying conditions or having been sick as a newborn.
As the Associate Medical Director of the Neuro-Intensive Care Nursery, she also leads efforts to optimize brain health care for critically ill infants. Her favourite part of being a member of the HRIF Quality of Care Initiative is the ability to collaborate to improve outcomes of high-risk infants at the state level. She is motivated by the resilience of her patients and their endless stories of hope despite critical illness as a neonate. Prior to moving back to California, Dr. Chan was a neonatologist and the Medical Director of the Neonatal Follow-Up Program at BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, Canada, which served all of British Columbia and the Yukon.
She is a graduate of McMaster University’s Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine in Canada. She completed both her Paediatrics and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine training at the University of Toronto. She also trained in the Neonatal Neurology fellowship program at the University of California, San Francisco and the Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine fellowship program at the University of California, Davis. Additionally, she obtained a Master of Public Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.