James Aw, M.D. *
(416) 350-5900 · Suite 1500, 150 York Street · Toronto, Ontario, M5H 3S5
Dr. James Aw is the Medical Director of the Medcan Clinic, a leading preventive healthcare clinic focused on identifying health risks before signs and symptoms occur. At Medcan he oversees an extensive physician team, clinical protocols and medical programs and is involved with strategic research and business development. His primary interests are in occupational, preventive and travel medicine.
He is a senior medical consultant for several companies in various industries including medical directorship for one of North America’s largest international financial institutions and has been involved in corporate medicine for over 10 years.
Dr. Aw oversees Medcan’s preventive services including its genetics program, which launched in 2005 and focused initially on familial genetic risk assessments. Through Medcan’s strategic alliance with Navigenics®, the program has been enhanced with the integration of genomic medicine into Medcan’s clinical practice. Medcan is the only clinic in Canada to offer Navigenics' personalized genetic testing services in conjunction with in-person counseling by a certified Genetic Counselor. By combining a patient’s genetic risk profile with family history, Medcan gives a more complete picture, arming patients with powerful information to take personalized preventive steps. Medcan also provides Pharmacogenomics, which examines how specific genetic variants affect an individual’s ability to metabolize medications. It is used by Medcan physicians to reduce trial and error prescribing and predict which medications are least likely to produce adverse side effects, some of which can be life-threatening.
Dr. Aw is a graduate of the University of Ottawa School of Medicine and diplomate in occupational health and safety from McMaster University. He has acquired post-graduate training in international health and travel medicine in the U.K. (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Uganda (U. of Makerere), Barbados (U. of West Indies) and U.S.A. He is a certificant of the core curriculum in occupational medicine from the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, previously an American Board Certified Independent Medical Examiner (CIME) and certified in Travel Health by the International Society of Travel Medicine.
Dr. Aw has previously been a physician peer reviewer for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Dr. Aw is a member of the National Corporate Medical Associates of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and maintains ongoing clinical observerships at Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine in Baltimore, USA.
*Biographical information was provided by this physician and has not been verified by Navigenics.
