Dr. Chan is an Instructor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He completed medical school at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University. He received his neurology residency training at the Mount Sinai Hospital, followed by a one-year fellowship training in epilepsy/EEG at Mount Sinai.
Dr. Chan is a clinician scientist. He monitors and interprets EEGs for patients in the epilepsy monitoring units, intensive care units, and in ambulatory settings within the Mount Sinai Health System. His clinical focus includes surgical evaluation for the patients with drug-resistant epilepsy and neuromodulation.
Dr. Chan’s research interest includes brain computer interface and neuromodulation. He is eager to study neuromodulation in different neurological disorders, including epilepsy and comorbid depression in epilepsy. His goals are to develop intracranial device technology and utilize other technologies such as 7T MRI to open new treatment strategies for patients. He was awarded an AAN residency research scholarship and T32 postdoctoral fellowship grant and Mount Sinai Advanced Neuroimaging Research Program’s (ANRP) Pilot award for his research.
From an educational standpoint, he has published several podcast episodes with Neurology Minute, in collaboration with the American Academy of Neurology and several of his Mount Sinai colleagues.
Grew up in Hong Kong, Dr. Chan has an interest in serving our Asian Pacific Islander population. He is a safety committee member at Mount Sinai Center for Asian Equity and Professional Development (CAEPD).
Dr. Chans’s study titled SeizEAR aims to:
- To develop an In-Ear Device for Temporal Lobe Seizures Detection, Diagnosis, and Treatment Response Monitoring.
ConduITS is supported by NCATS of the NIH’s CTSA Program. Any use of CTSA-supported resources requires citation of grant number UL1TR004419 awarded to ISMMS in the acknowledgment section of every publication resulting from this support. Adherence to the NIH Public Access Policy is also required.
