Dr. Michael Chen is a clinical pathologist, specializing in clinical chemistry and translational mass spectrometry. He obtained his medical degree at McGill University, Montreal. After his medical training, he completed the Clinician Investigator Program in clinical proteomics jointly developed by UVic Genome-BC Proteomics Centre and Montreal Jewish General Hospital.

Dr. Chen is the Division Head of Medical Biochemistry at Vancouver Island Health Authority, and he also serves as the Provincial Lead of Medical Biochemistry in British Columbia. As a clinician scientist, Dr Chen is the director of UBC Translational Omics Lab in the Victoria General Hospital and the director of Vancouver Island Biobank. Dr. Chen’s research focuses on microbial diagnostics, glycoproteomics, biomarker validation and clinical implementation.