Michael Chua

Learning Positions:

• Program Director, Paediatric Urology Fellowship Program, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
• Inaugural/Founding Program Director, Joint Paediatric & Adult Genitourinary Reconstructive and Functional Urology Fellowship
• Director, Bladder Reconstruction Independence Development, Diversion for Genitourinary Empowerment (BRIDGE)
• Lecturer/Co-Director, CIRCLES (Circumcision Learning Experience Using Simulator), SickKids
• Head, Robotic Program Partnership- SickKids-TGH
• Lead Faculty, Academy of Evidence-Based Pediatric Urology

Dr. Michael E. Chua, MD, MASc (Global Health), DSc, FACS FRCSC is a Staff Urologist in the Division of Urology at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and an Assistant Professor of Global Surgery in the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto. He serves as Program Director of the Paediatric Urology Fellowship Program at SickKids, Inaugural and Founding Program Director of the Joint Paediatric and Adult Genitourinary Reconstructive and Functional Urology Fellowship, and Section Chief for Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgery and Transitional Urology of the Institute of Urology at St. Luke’s Medical Center in the Philippines.

Dr. Chua completed his medical degree at St. Luke’s College of Medicine and advanced fellowship training in Functional Urology, pediatric urology, Adolescent and transitional urology, and adult and pediatric genitourinary reconstructive surgery at The New Taipei- Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hospital for Sick Children, and Eastern Virginia Medical School. He holds a Master of Applied Science in Global Health Planning and Management from Johns Hopkins University and a Doctor of Science in Healthcare Leadership and Management from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, training that underpins his leadership in global surgery, health systems, and academic program development.

A central pillar of Dr. Chua’s work is Global Surgery and global health systems strengthening in paediatric and reconstructive urology. He leads longitudinal global surgery partnerships between SickKids and tertiary referral centres in low- and middle-income countries, particularly in Southeast Asia. These collaborations emphasize sustainable capacity-building through structured fellowship-aligned training, side-by-side operating, outcomes evaluation, and long-term mentorship rather than short-term surgical missions.

Clinically and academically, Dr. Chua has a strong focus on complex genitourinary reconstruction, neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction, pediatric urolithiasis, robotic-assisted surgeries, and transitional urology for patients with congenital conditions requiring lifelong care. He has played a key role in advancing evidence-based management in pediatric urology, including comparative effectiveness research, technology assessment, and the translation of emerging evidence into clinical pathways within multidisciplinary care models.

Dr. Chua is nationally and internationally recognized for his leadership in clinical practice guideline development and evidence synthesis. He has served as lead and senior author for major pediatric urology guidelines, including national guidelines on neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction, and has contributed extensively to systematic reviews and meta-analyses that inform best practices in pediatric urolithiasis, reconstructive surgery, and functional urology.

At SickKids, he has helped establish and lead the Academy of Evidence-Based Pediatric Urology, an initiative dedicated to integrating rigorous evidence appraisal, guideline implementation, and learning-curve analytics into clinical care, education, and quality improvement. He also contributes to institutional programs such as the Bladder Reconstruction Independence Development Diversions for Genitourinary Empowerment (BRIDGE) Program for complex reconstruction and transition and CIRCLES, a simulation-based surgical education platform.

Dr. Chua’s research and educational work integrates outcomes research, learning health systems, and digital innovation—including augmented and mixed reality and artificial intelligence–enabled tools—to improve surgical training, program evaluation, and access to high-quality pediatric urologic care locally and globally. Through his roles at SickKids and the University of Toronto, he actively mentors trainees and collaborators across disciplines and international settings.

Clinical & Academic Interests

• Global surgery and capacity-building in paediatric and reconstructive urology
• Pediatric urolithiases, Minimally Invasive, and Robotic-Assisted Surgeries
• Evidence-Based Urology, Clinical practice guideline development and implementation
• Neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction and transitional urology
• Outcomes research, learning health systems, and learning-curve analytics
• Simulation, augmented/mixed reality, and AI-enabled surgical education