CAPP

Dr. Richard Bennett

Clinical Assistant Professor

Dr. Margot Davis

Member-at-Large, EDI,
Clinical Associate Professor

Margot Davis is a cardiologist at VGH and SPH and the Director of the UBC Cardiology-Oncology Program. She obtained her Bachelor of Science in Physiology at McGill University before attending medical school at the University of British Columbia. She stayed at UBC for her Internal Medicine residency and Cardiology fellowship and served as Chief Resident for both Medicine and Cardiology. She then completed fellowships in Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiology and Cardio-Oncology & Cardiac Amyloidosis at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also a candidate for a Masters of Science in clinical epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Her research interests are focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and management of cardiotoxicity related to cancer therapy and the epidemiology of heart disease in cancer survivors. She also has interests in cardiac amyloidosis and advanced heart failure. She is a co-PI on the Canadian Cancer Society-funded ELEVATE trial of eplerenone for the prevention of anthracycline cardiotoxicity in breast cancer patients.

Dr. Marc Deyell

Clinical Professor

Marc is a native of Calgary, Alberta, Canada and received his Medical Doctorate from the University of Alberta.  He completed a residency in Internal Medicine and Masters of Epidemiology at the University of Calgary and his Cardiology and Electrophysiology training at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.  Following this, he undertook an advanced fellowship in Electrophysiology (Heart Rhythm Management) at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, focusing on complex ablation.

He joined the Heart Rhythm team at St. Paul’s and Vancouver General Hospitals of the University of British Columbia in February 2012.  He is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.  He is currently the Director of Heart Rhythm Research and the Director of the Electrophysiology Laboratory at St. Paul’s.

His clinical and research interests center around the epidemiology, health outcomes and ablation of complex arrhythmias.  He is an active researcher, holding current funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Heart and Stroke Foundation, and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society.  He is the recipient of a career investigator award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.

Dr. Christopher Fordyce

Clinical Associate Professor

Dr. Christopher Fordyce is a Clinical Assistant Professor within the Division of Cardiology at the University of British Columbia, Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Vancouver General Hospital, and a Scientist at the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences (CHÉOS). He completed a clinical research fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease at the Duke Clinical Research Institute, as well as further subspecialty training in Cardiac Critical Care at Duke University Hospital. His clinical and research interests lie predominately in cardiac critical care, including myocardial infarction and cardiac arrest, as well as non-invasive testing for stable coronary disease and antithrombotic therapy in atrial fibrillation. Following medical school at McGill University, he trained in both Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the University of British Columbia. He also completed the Program in Clinical Effectiveness at the Harvard School of Public Health and a Master’s of Health Science in Clinical Research through the Duke School of Medicine.

Dr. Nat Hawkins

Head, UBC Cardiology Research,
Clinical Associate Professor

Dr Hawkins is Clinical Associate Professor at UBC and holder of the Dr. Charles Kerr Distinguished Scholar in Heart Rhythm Management. He holds dual certification in Heart Function and Heart Rhythm management, providing an innovative perspective on integration of technology with chronic disease management. He is the Physician Lead for the Vancouver Coastal Health Regional Heart Failure Program, and Director of the Heart Function Clinic at St. Paul’s Hospital, the Inherited Cardiomyopathy Clinic at Vancouver General Hospital, and the Regional Heart Failure Audit. He is Co-Chair at the Centre for Cardiovascular Innovation for Investigator Initiated Studies (https://cci-cic.org/).

His research examines cardiovascular outcomes, health services, and comorbidities in patients with heart failure and arrhythmia, and investigates patient management using cardiac implantable devices, remote monitoring, and digital health solutions. He has published in leading journals including Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), and European Heart Journal. He has 97 peer-reviewed publications, h-index 30.

Education

• Medical degree: MBChB, University of Edinburgh
• Research degree: MD, Doctorate of Medicine, University of Glasgow
• Research degree: MPH, University of Liverpool
• Residency: University of Edinburgh
• Fellowship: Heart Failure and Devices, University of Liverpool
• Fellowship: Heart Failure and Devices, University of British Columbia

Dr. Zachary Laksman

Director, Systems Innovation & Improvement,
Assistant Professor

Dr. Zachary Laksman is the Director of the St. Paul’s Hospital Atrial Fibrillation Clinic and the Director of the St. Paul’s Hospital Inherited Arrhythmia Clinic. Dr. Laksman specializes in the management of cardiac arrhythmias, and simple and complex ablation and device implantation.

Dr. Laksman is a clinician-scientist with a specific focus on cardiogenetics, stem cell disease modeling, and personalized medicine. His research has been published in scientific journals such as JACC, Heart Rhythm, Circulation Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, American Journal of Cardiology, Canadian Journal of Cardiology, Journal of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, and Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews. Dr. Laksman’s research is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health and Research, the Heart and Stroke Foundation, and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society.

Dr. Laksman holds Dr. Charles Kerr distinguished Scholar in Cardiovascular Genetics.

Dr. Christina Luong

Clinical Associate Professor

Dr. Luong is a clinical associate professor within the Division of Cardiology at the University of British Columbia and member of the Vancouver General Hospital and University of British Columbia Hospital Echocardiography Laboratory. She specializes in echocardiography with a special interest in stress echo. Her research focuses on the development and application of machine learning models to echocardiography and works closely with UBC computer and biomedical engineering.

She practices general cardiology and provides services for the VGH STAT clinic and inpatient consultation service. Dr. Luong is a graduate of the University of Alberta medical school, and UBC Internal Medicine and Cardiology fellowship programs. She completed advanced fellowships in echocardiography at Vancouver General Hospital and at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. She also completed a Master’s of Health Science through the University of British Columbia.

Dr. Jimmy McKinney

Clinical Assistant Professor

Dr. James McKinney MD, FRCP(C) is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Cardiology at the University of British Columbia. Dr. McKinney obtained his degree in medicine from the University of Toronto. He subsequently completed internal medicine and cardiology fellowship at the University of British Columbia. Dr. McKinney then completed subspecialty fellowships in cardiac rehabilitation at the University of Toronto and sports cardiology in Rome, London U.K. and at UBC. At present, he is the director of research at SportsCardiologyBC (www.sportscardiologybc.org). Dr. McKinney’s clinical and research interests focus on: 1) pre-participation screening of young and Masters athletes, 2) improving the safety of exercise in persons with underlying cardiac conditions, 3) studying potential negative cardiac effects of strenuous endurance exercise and 4) to improve treatment strategies in exercising individuals with cardiac conditions.

Dr. Nathaniel Moulson

Clinical Assistant Professor

Dr. Nathaniel Moulson, MD, FRCPC is a member of the Divisions of Cardiology at Vancouver General Hospital, University of British Columbia Hospital, and St. Paul’s Hospital. He was born and raised in Nelson BC. Dr. Moulson received his undergraduate degree in Kinesiology and Health Science and his medical doctorate from the University of British Columbia. He completed his internal medicine residency at Queen’s University and general cardiology fellowship at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Moulson completed subspecialty fellowships in the Cardiovascular Performance Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University, and Cardiac Rehabilitation and Prevention at the University of British Columbia. He has additionally completed a Clinician Investigator Program residency and currently pursuing a Master of Health Administration. Dr. Moulson is actively involved in clinical and research activities. He focuses his clinical time in the Sports Cardiology clinic at UBC-Hospital, and in cardiac rehabilitation and prevention at both Vancouver General Hospital and St. Paul’s Hospital. Dr. Moulson is actively involved as a primary and co-investigator for multiple single and multi-center national and international research studies in the areas of sports cardiology, cardiac rehabilitation and prevention, and virtual health care.

Dr. Thomas Roston

Clinical Assistant Professor

Dr. Thomas Roston is a cardiologist and clinician-scientist at St. Paul’s Hospital and Vancouver General Hospital. He received an MD from the University of British Columbia, followed by residencies in Internal Medicine and Cardiology, during which time he twice served as chief resident. He also obtained a PhD from the University of Alberta focused on inherited heart disease, and completed the UBC Clinician Investigator Program. He has additional fellowship training from Harvard Medical School in Cardiovascular Genetics, and from the University of Alberta in Cardiac Critical Care. Dr. Roston’s research is focused on cardiac genetics, heart disease in the young, and critical care cardiology.

Dr. Tara Sedlak

Clinical Associate Professor

Dr. Tara Sedlak grew up in Kelowna, British Columbia, receiving her Bachelor’s degree with Honours from the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta) and her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, British Columbia). Dr. Tara Sedlak was awarded the Gold Medal for a top graduate from the Doctor of Medicine Program. She completed two specialist residencies (Internal Medicine and Cardiology) at the University of British Columbia, where she twice served as Chief Medical Resident. Dr. Tara Sedlak also completed a fellowship at Cedar Sinai Medical Centre (Los Angeles, California) with Dr. Bairey Merz, the world’s leading expert in women’s heart health. Dr. Tara Sedlak is the only Canadian physician to have completed this program. Dr. Tara Sedlak practices General Cardiology for men and women. She is also the only certified Women’s Heart Health Cardiologist in Canada.

Dr. Darwin Yeung

Clinical Assistant Professor

Dr. Yeung received his medical degree from the University of Toronto followed by residency training in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the University of British Columbia. He completed advanced fellowships in echocardiography at Vancouver General Hospital and at the Mayo Clinic, and is currently pursuing a Master of Public Health degree at the Harvard School of Public Health. He will be joining the VGH/UBC Echo Lab and providing specialized care for patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, cardiac amyloidosis, and Fabry cardiomyopathy. His current research focuses on the application of strain imaging in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with cardiovascular disease.