Elaine Chin, M.D., M.B.A.*
(416) 222-5880 · 4120 Yonge Street, Suite 306 · Toronto, Ontario, M2P 2R8
Dr. Elaine Chin is co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of the Scienta Health Group. Elaine is a pioneer in implementing an individualized preventive healthcare model – including preventive genetics and other leading edge diagnostics - in clinical practice.
She graduated from The University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine in 1988 and completed her comprehensive surgical internship at the Toronto General Hospital.
Her professional career began with practicing Family Medicine in the Toronto area. She remains on staff at Trillium Health Centre and University Health Network today and has served on the Trillium Health Centre’s Board and more recently as a Director of the Foundation Board.
Disillusioned and frustrated after years in family practice – where she found she had no time or opportunity to truly make a difference to the health of her patients – Dr. Chin turned to further education in the hope she could somehow change the healthcare system. She became convinced of the need to fundamentally change the orientation of healthcare to a focus on active prevention and health management and away from the deeply entrenched and expensive disease treatment so widely practiced.
She earned her M.B.A. in the Executive Program at the Rotman School of Business at the University of Toronto in 1994.
Her first role after graduating was as Medical Director at Nesbitt Burns/Bank of Montreal (1994-1997), where she led reviews of Executive Health, Wellness Programs and Benefits in Canadian and US operations. After 3 years in this role and still convinced there was a better way, she initiated her own health and wellness businesses, which included an interest in the Gimbel Eye Centre, Toronto, consulting for TLC (The Laser Centre) then establishing the first “Medical Spa” in Toronto, The Beresford Clinic.
An Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, she has taught at the Rotman School of Management on integrating prevention-driven models into corporate human resources practice. She regularly delivers executive seminars and consulting on executive health as a strategic tool in improving workplace productivity and protecting human capital.
*Biographical information was provided by this physician and has not been verified by Navigenics.
