Dr William Chan is a clinician scientist, senior consultant cardiologist, and interventional cardiologist with clinical appointments at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Western Health.
He holds an honorary Professorial academic appointment with the University of Melbourne, and with The Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute. He is the Interventional Lead at Western Health.
Dr Chan's research work and interests are centred on improving clinical outcomes in real-world cardiology practice as well as treating and prognosticating acute cardiac conditions (for example, cardiogenic shock and acute myocardial infarction, and cardiac arrest) through data obtained from randomised-controlled trials and large-scale, multi-centre registries.
He has special interest in coronary and microcirculatory physiology, and, in particular, understanding how derangements in microcirculatory physiology can translate into disease phenotypes in patients with acute coronary syndromes, stable angina as well as in those with non-obstructive coronary artery disease.
He currently supervises PhD fellows, cardiology trainees, and junior medical staff across the RMH and Western Health.