Joseph Ting

MPH, MBBS, FRCPC, DRCOG, FRCPCH, MD

Affiliate Investigator, BC Children's Hospital
Neonatologist, Alberta Health Services
Variety, the Children's Charity and the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation Pediatric Clinical Research Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, University of Alberta

He completed his undergraduate medical training and paediatric residency at the University of Hong Kong in 2006. He subsequently obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Infectious Diseases in 2007 and a Master of Public Health, specialising in Medical Statistics. In 2013, he completed a fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, which included advanced training in Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography (TnECHO) at the University of Toronto. He was awarded a Doctor of Medicine (MD, research-based) in 2021, with a thesis focused on neonatal infection and antimicrobial stewardship.

Following the completion of his fellowship, he was appointed as a Staff Neonatologist at British Columbia Women’s Hospital in Vancouver. In 2017, he was promoted to Clinical Associate Professor of Paediatrics at UBC. In 2021, he was recruited to the University of Alberta as a tenured Associate Professor, holding the Variety, the Children’s Charity and the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation Pediatric Clinical Research Professorship.

He currently serves within the Canadian Neonatal Network and is the Associate Director and Co-Chair of the Infection Prevention & Antimicrobial Stewardship Group under the Evidence-Based Practice for Improving Quality (EPIQ) initiative, a national, multidisciplinary collaboration aimed at implementing evidence-based practice changes to improve neonatal outcomes.

His research focuses on neonatal infection and antimicrobial stewardship, neonatal haemodynamics and Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography, and the long-term health outcomes of at-risk infants.

His aspiration is to enhance newborn care in Canada and globally through clinical research, education, and advocacy.