Dr. Jim Chung has been Air Canada’s chief medical officer since 2014. In this role, he has oversight for both employee and passenger medical regulatory and pilot medical certification. He is also responsible for the corporate disability management program and the corporate wellness program, Unlock the Best in You.

Dr. Chung is a graduate of the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine and completed his undergraduate studies at McMaster University. He served in the Canadian Forces in various medical officer roles while stationed at CFB Petawawa, including a deployment to Bosnia on Canada’s NATO SFOR mission and to Turkey with Canada’s Disaster Assistance Response Team in response to a major earthquake in 1999. Dr. Chung attained his flight surgeon training through the Canadian Forces and also received his master’s in aviation medicine and post graduate diploma in occupational medicine with Otago University. He also completed his emergency medicine training and certification with the University of Toronto following his service with the Canadian Forces, practicing as an emergency medicine physician in Toronto prior to joining Air Canada in 2009 and assuming the role of chief medical officer with Air Canada in 2014.