Dr. Jim Chung has been Air Canada’s Chief Medical Officer since 2016. In this role, he has oversight for the preventative, occupational, environmental and clinical medicine with the physiology and psychology of flight, which includes mitigation and management of global health risks, and both employee and passenger medical regulatory issues, first aid training, onboard medical procedures and pilot medical certification.
Dr. Chung is a graduate of the University of Toronto Medical Program and undergraduate studies at McMaster University.
Following completion of his residency in Family Medicine, he served in the Canadian Forces in various roles while stationed at CFB Petawawa. Dr. Chung also deployed to Bosnia on Canada’s NATO SFOR mission and to Turkey with Canada’s DART team in response to a major earthquake in 1999.
Dr. Chung attained his flight surgeon training through the Canadian Forces and also received his Master in Aviation Medicine and Post graduate diploma in Occupational Medicine through Otago University.
Dr. Chung also completed his emergency medicine training and certification at the University of Toronto following his retirement from the Canadian Forces, practicing as an emergency medicine physician in Toronto prior to joining Air Canada in 2009 as Senior Medical Advisor, Toronto, a role he held until his appointment to Chief Medical Officer.
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April 25