Obstetrician-Gynecologist
The Ottawa Hospital, Canada
Dr. Darine El-Chaâr is a Maternal Fetal Medicine (MFM) physician at TOH, Scientist at OHRI, and Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa. Darine completed her Obstetrical and Gynecology residency at The Ottawa Hospital in 2012. In July of 2014, Darine El-Chaâr completed her Maternal Fetal Medicine fellowship training at the University of Toronto. Darine joined the Maternal Fetal Medicine Department at The Ottawa Hospital as of July 2014. She has completed a Masters in clinical Epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2017.
She is actively involved in maternal fetal medicine research to improve outcomes for fetus and mother in pregnancy. Current research focus areas include: (1) Maternal Immunization (2) Maternal morbidities and prenatal care; and (3) COVID-19 and infections in pregnancy (4) breastfeeding and diabetes: initiation, success and maintenance.