NeoChats-Series 8 | Episode 4: Antibiotic Stewardship and Bacterial Resistance – Back to Basics Dr. Joseph Ting

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Joseph Ting, MBBS, MPH, MD(Res), DRCOG, MRCPCH, FRCPC (Pediatrics and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine)

Staff Neonatologist, Alberta Health Services (Edmonton Zone)
Variety, the Children's Charity and the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation Pediatric Clinical Research Professor, Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Care, Department of Pediatrics, Women and Children's Health Research Institute, University of Alberta
Associate Director, Evidence-based Practice for Improving Quality (EPIQ), Canadian Neonatal Network
Co-chair, Nosocomial Infection Group, EPIQ,
Edmonton, Alberta

Biography:
Dr. Ting is a clinician investigator, committed to improving neonatal health. As a Staff Neonatologist, he provides care for high-risk infants born at the threshold of viability, those with congenital heart diseases, and those requiring surgical intervention and multidisciplinary care.  He completed his medical school training and pediatric residency at University of Hong Kong (HKU) and its affiliated teaching hospitals in 1998 and 2006, respectively. He also obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Infectious Diseases (2007) and a Master of Public Health (Medical Statistics, 2009). In 2013, he completed his Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine fellowship at University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, during which time he went to the University of Toronto for 6 months to receive further training in Targeted Neonatal Echocardiograph. He has also completed his MD (research) degree in neonatal infection and antimicrobial stewardship in 2021. Upon completion of his fellowship in 2013, he was hired as Staff Neonatologist at British Columbia Women’s Hospital at Vancouver. In 2017, he was promoted to Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at UBC, and then recruited to University of Alberta as the tenured associate professor with endowed professorship (Variety, the Children's Charity and the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation Pediatric Clinical Research Professor) in 2021.

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