Frances Chung

Dr. Frances Chung is a Professor of the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, and the ResMed Chair in Anesthesia, Sleep, and Perioperative Medicine Research at University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was the Past President for the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia. Also, she was the Co-Founder and Past President of the Society of Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine. She serves on three editorial boards: Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, Journal of Anesthesia and Translational Medicine.

Her research interests are in several areas: sleep apnea, cognitive impairment, and perioperative medicine. Her work led to development of the Postanesthesia Discharge Score for the safe discharge of patients from ambulatory surgical unit to home and the STOPBang Tool. STOP-Bang is a screening tool for patients with undiagnosed obstructive sleep apnea that has been adopted worldwide by preoperative clinics and sleep clinics.

In the Scopus database, she has over 519 peer-reviewed publications and have been cited 41,987 times with a h-index of 98 (Scopus)(http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9576-3606). In 2024, she received the “Inventor of the Year Award” by University Health Network, Toronto, Canada. In August 2024, she received the Chinese Canadian Legend Award given by the Chinese Canadian Legends Association for her scientific contribution to Canada. In 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025, she was ranked among the world's top 1,000 best female scientists (among 166,880 profiles) by Research.com.