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Lennox Huang (Canada)

MD, MBA

Present Designation and affiliations:

  • Chief Medical Officer; Staff physician & the Vice President for Education, Medical & Academic Affairs at the Paediatric Critical Care Unit Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  • Associate Clinical Professor of Paediatrics at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
  • Co-chairs the board of directors for the Global Network for Simulation in Healthcare Faculty member of Health Care Systems Simulation International.

Major Achievements (Honours /Awards /Publications):

  • Undergraduate degree in Psychology at Boston University
  • MD at the University of Toronto
  • Residency in Paediatrics and a fellowship in Paediatric Critical Care at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital (University Hospitals of Cleveland)
  • Masters of Business Administration from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Past Chair of the Department of Paediatrics at McMaster University
  • Past Chief of Paediatrics for Hamilton Health Sciences and St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, Ontario.
  • Led both regional and national safety programs: Toronto Academic Health Sciences Network Escalation of Care efforts and the National Paediatric Patient Safety Curriculum.
  • During the COVID-19 pandemic Dr. Huang co-led the regional physician response across the greater Toronto Area and served as the executive sponsor of the Toronto Youth COVID-19 Vaccination effort.