Dr. Uma Chandran is a Medical Microbiologist with Vancouver Coastal Health, Interim Associate Regional Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control for Vancouver Coastal Health, and a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UBC. She received her BSc and MD from the University of Alberta in 1998, after two years of an Honours BSc in Cellular, Molecular and Microbial Biology at the University of Calgary. She completed her residency in Medical Microbiology at the University of Alberta, where she served as Chief Resident, and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 2003. She also completed the Canadian Field Epidemiology Program with the Public Health Agency of Canada and later earned a Master of Health Sciences in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2013. For two decades Dr. Chandran held leadership roles in infection prevention and control in Edmonton, including Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control at the Royal Alexandra Hospital and the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital, Site Co-Lead for Antimicrobial Stewardship, Medical Officer of Health for the Edmonton Zone, and Medical Lead for the Alberta Health Services Infection Prevention and Control COVID-19 pandemic response. She was an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Alberta from 2004 to 2014. She led the Alberta Health Services Carbapenemase-Producing Organism Guidelines Steering Group and served on the Alberta Advisory Committee on Immunization. She joined Vancouver Coastal Health in 2025, first as Infection Control Officer at Vancouver General Hospital and GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre. In 2024 she received the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal.