Pradeep Merchant MBBS, MD, FRCP(C)
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Pradeep Merchant MBBS, MD, FRCP(C)
Assistant Professor and Site Chief, TOH Civic Campus
Office: 613-761-4267
Work E-mail: pmerchant@ottawahospital.on.ca

Biography
Dr. Pradeep Merchant obtained his MBBS medical degree from the University of Bombay in 1984. He completed his pediatric training at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario in 1990 and joined the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto for a neonatology fellowship in 1990. He then joined the University of Ottawa’s Department of Pediatrics as an assistant professor in 1994. In 1997, he was appointed chief of the Division of Neonatology at what is now The Ottawa Hospital –Civic Campus and medical director of the Rich Little Special Care Nursery. In 2006, Dr. Merchant became chief of the Division of Neonatology for the amalgamated Ottawa Hospital and then chief of the Division of Neonatology at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO). Currently, he is site chief of the Division of Neonatology at The Ottawa Hospital - Civic Campus. Dr. Merchant continues to participate actively at local, regional and provincial levels for the development of regional health care in Ottawa.