Andre Ferland

Dr. Andre Ferland

MD

Positions

Intensivist

Alberta Health Services

Clinical Professor

Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Critical Care Medicine

Medical Director, CVICU

Alberta Health Services

Member

Libin Cardiovascular Institute

Contact information

Phone number

Office: 403.944.2471

Background

Biography

Graduating School and Year: Medical School, University of Sherbrooke 1980 - 1984 Residency and Fellowship University/ year of completion: Internal Medicine, University of Sherbrooke 1984 - 1988 Critical Care, University of Calgary 1988 - 1989

Dr. Andre Ferland is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Critical Care (DCCM), Medicine, Cardiac Sciences and Internal Medicine within the University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Ferland graduated from Sherbrooke medical school in 1984, completed thereafter general internal medicine and critical care. It is worth mentioning that he was the first intensivist to graduate from the U of C Critical Care program!

On faculty since 1990, Dr. Ferland held the position of Critical care program director for more than 10 years until taking a 1 year sabbatical in clinical echocardiography. In 2013, he resumed for the second time the role Medical Director of the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit at the Foothills Medical Centre(FMC). In 2015 in partnership with Dr. Godinez, Boucher and the radiology group EFW, Dr. Ferland helped developing an outpatient echocardiography lab with the goal of enhancing the echo training of DCCM residents. Dr. Ferland is still an active internist as he still practices and teaches general internal medicine in his outpatient clinic and the FMC.

Awards

  • award, 2013
  • award, 2012
  • award, 2009