Andre Ferland

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.