Vancouver Coastal Health

Dr. Jason Andrade

Clinical Associate Professor

Dr. Jason Andrade is a Cardiac Electrophysiologist at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH), with a joint appointment at St Paul’s Hospital and the Montreal Heart Institute. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC), and an Adjunct Professor at the Université de Montréal. Dr. Andrade is the Director of the Electrophysiology Program at VGH, as well as Head of the Atrial Fibrillation Clinic at VGH. He also serves as co-chair of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society Atrial Fibrillation Guidelines committee and serves as the medical lead for the atrial fibrillation care in the province of British Columbia. He previously served as chair of the education committee for the Canadian Heart Rhythm Society.

Dr. Andrade is the principal investigator of two ongoing multicenter clinical trials on cryoablation (the CIRCA-DOSE study and the EARLY-AF program). He has authored or co-authored over 130 scientific publications, predominantly in the domain of atrial fibrillation. He is also the author of a handbook of cardiac electrophysiology, a handbook of electrocardiogram interpretation, and several chapters related to atrial fibrillation ablation and cardiac cryoablation. He serves on the editorial board of the Heart Rhythm journal and the Journal of Atrial Fibrillation.

Dr. Andrade is a graduate of McMaster University (BSc; Summa Cum Laude) and the University of Ottawa (MD, Magna Cum Laude). He completed his Internal Medicine residency and Cardiology fellowship training at the University of British Columbia and a clinical and research fellowship in Cardiac Electrophysiology at the Montreal Heart Institute.

Dr. Eve Aymong

Clinical Associate Professor

Dr. Eve Aymong, MD, MSc, is a Clinical Associate Professor in the UBC Division of Cardiology. She works as a general cardiologist and interventional cardiologist primarily based at St. Paul’s Hospital with a cross appointment at Vancouver Acute. She is a graduate of University of Toronto medical school and received specialty training at the Universities of Toronto and Calgary. She also has a Masters of Science from Columbia University with a focus on patient oriented research and biostatistics.

Currently, she is the President of the specialty section of the BC Medical Association Society of Cardiology. Her responsibilities at St. Paul’s Hospital include chairing the quality assurance activities of the Morbidity and Mortality rounds of the Heart Centre. She is an active participant on the Research Ethics Board for Providence Health Care as well as a member on several committees of Cardiac Services BC.

Dr. Matthew Bennett

Clinical Associate Professor

DHCC 9th Floor
2775 Laurel St
Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9

Dr. Richard Bennett

Clinical Assistant Professor

Dr. Robert Boone

Clinical Assistant Professor

Dr. Boone is an Interventional Cardiologist based at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver having trained in Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has an active interest in minimally invasive techniques for heart valve intervention, and has led the establishment of a MitraClip program in British Columbia.

He has a keen interest in renal denervation for refractory hypertension and is working with colleagues in Internal Medicine, Nephrology, and Interventional Radiology to bring this emerging technology to patients in BC. He is involved in new stent technology and imaging for coronary artery disease including the emerging area of bioresorbable platforms.

In addition to his interventional practice he maintains a general cardiology clinic in Vancouver, an outreach clinic in Whitehorse, and active clinical role in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. His academic interests centre around epidemiology and outcomes research related to new technologies. In addition he is collaborating with investigators looking at ethnic variations in cardiac outcomes, and the influence of HIV on coronary artery disease outcomes, the etiology and outcomes of stent thrombosis and the role of FFR in routine interventional practice.

Dr. Nathan Brunner

Clinical Associate Professor

Dr. Brunner obtained his degree in medicine from the University of Alberta in 2006. He subsequently trained in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the University of British Columbia from 2006-2012. He received extra training in the field of pulmonary hypertension at Stanford University in California from 2012-2013. His research interests include the clinical management of pulmonary hypertension and the assessment of pulmonary hypertension through hemodynamics and non-invasive imaging.

Dr. John Cairns

Professor (tenure)

John Cairns is a cardiologist whose research has focused on the modification and non-invasive measurement of myocardial infarct size in humans and dogs, antithrombotic therapies for acute ischemic syndromes and for atrial fibrillation, and post-myocardial infarction arrhythmias. He practiced cardiology for many years in Ontario, focusing on acute coronary care and invasive cardiology. He a member of the CCS group which developed the 2010 Atrial Fibrillation Guidelines and 2012, 2014 and 2016 Updates, chairing the chapter on stroke prevention. He has held a number of academic leadership roles, including Coordinator of the Regional Cardiovascular Program in Hamilton (1979-86), Chair of Medicine, McMaster University (1988-96) and Dean of Medicine, UBC (1996-2003). As Dean, he worked closely with UBC and the provincial government to build the rationale and plans for the two-fold expansion of the Medical School in partnership with the Universities of Victoria and Northern BC. He led the CIHR Clinical Research Initiative in 2004-05, which proposed a variety of programs to strengthen the support of Clinical research in Canada, and he was a member of CIHR’s External Advisory Group on Multi-site Clinical Studies (2012). He is currently co-chair of the Steering Committee of CANNeCTIN, a Canadian and international clinical trials network funded by CFI and CIHR and headquartered at McMaster University. He is the immediate Past-President of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

Dr. Ronald Carere

Clinical Professor

Dr. Carere received his MD degree from the University of Ottawa (1984). He did postgraduate training at the University of Toronto receiving his Fellowship in Internal Medicine1988 and Cardiology in 1990. He did a Fellowship in Interventional Cardiology and Research at Toronto General Hospital in 1989-91.

He joined the Division of Cardiology at St Paul’s in 1991. His clinical practice focuses on Cardiac Interventions with a special interest in structural congenital heart disease including ASD/PFO and PDA closure, co-arctation stenting, transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement, and alcohol ablation of HOCM.

Dr. Carere has served in a number of medical leadership positions including Associate Head of the Division of Cardiology (1998 to 2001), Physician Program Director of the Heart Centre (2001-2010), Regional Medical Director of the Cardiac Sciences Program for Vancouver Coastal Health (2004-2010). He became Chair of the Medical Advisory Committee for Providence Health Care (2006-2010). His administrative roles evolved to Acting Vice President of Medical Affairs for Providence Health Care in May of 2010, a role he formally assumed in April of 2011.

Dr. Carere is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and maintains active clinical research interests including work with the BC Cardiac Registry database and in structural heart disease. In 2000 he received the Martin M. Hoffman Award for Excellence in Research from the St Paul’s Hospital Department of Medicine and in 2013 an award of Merit for contributions to the St Paul’s Hospital Department of Medicine.

Dr. Rudy Chow

Clinical Assistant Professor

Dr. Rudy Chow is a UBC clinical assistant professor and a member of the UBC Division of Cardiology and Geriatrics. He has a position as the first geriatric cardiologist in BC, working at Mount St. Joseph’s Hospital (MSJH). MSJH in Vancouver is a leader in the field of Eldercare. Since 2011, the hospital has developed and improved cardiac treatment for the elderly patients and residents in our care, establishing a new university-affiliated outpatient cardiac clinic. Rudy will provide a unique service to the elderly in East Vancouver. For the first time, geriatric patients will have a treatment plan charted that integrates expertise from both the cardiology and geriatric fields.

Rudy has an education focus and will be offering clinical electives to residents and fellows in the growing field of geriatric-cardiology. Topic areas of importance include frailty in cardiovascular disease, risk stratification in the elderly, interactions of comorbid illness on cardiovascular care, cardiac interventions in the elderly, and barriers to cardiovascular care in the elderly.

Dr. Brian Clarke

Clinical Associate Professor

Dr. Brian Clarke is a heart failure cardiologist with specialization in cardiac transplantation & mechanical circulatory support.   He has experience and interest across the spectrum of heart failure and cardiomyopathy with an additional area of focus in cardiooncology.    He is clinical associate professor in the department of medicine, division of cardiology at the University of British Columbia with academic interests and experience in education, outcomes research, and clinical program innovation.  Dr. Clarke obtained his medical degree and completed internal medicine and cardiology residences at Dalhousie University in Halifax NS, moving on to Stanford University to complete subspecialty training in advanced heart failure, cardiac transplantation, and mechanical circulatory support.  He returned to Halifax as active medical staff before being recruited to the University of Calgary and Libin Cardiovascular Institute, where he became the medical director of the cardiac transplant and MCS programs and program director of the heart failure training program in 2018.  He launched an invasive heart failure monitoring program in 2018.  Dr. Clarke joined the division of cardiology at UBC and St. Paul’s Hospital/Vancouver General Hospital in October 2021.  Dr. Clarke is active in education and has won teaching awards for resident education.  He has been a member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada adult cardiology subspecialty committee, chair of the AFC in advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation, and the adult cardiology exam board.  Dr. Clarke is the current president of the Canadian Cardiac Transplant Network, an official affiliate of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society, and is senior advisor to Canadian Blood Services, Health Canada, and CIHI on matters of transplantation.

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. Anthony Fung

Clinical Professor

GLDHCC – Level 9 Cardiology
2775 Laurel Street
Vancouver, BC V5Z1M9

Dr. Ken Gin

Clinical Professor

Dr. Gin graduated MD at UBC in 1985; completed his internal medicine & adult cardiology training, followed by an echocardiography fellowship. Appointed by the UBC Department of Medicine and VGH Division of Cardiology in 1992, he achieved the rank of Clinical Professor in 2008. He was Director, UBC Postgraduate Cardiology Program for 10 years until 2009; under his tutelage, the program grew from 2 residents to 17. From 2009 to 2012 he served as Head of the UBC Division of Cardiology for Vancouver Acute. Since 2009 to the present, he has served as Head of the VGH Division of Cardiology. He has received numerous teaching awards, including the prestigious 2010 UBC Killam Teaching Prize and the 2011 Canadian Cardiovascular Society Distinguished Teaching Award. He has published in the NEJM, Lancet, JACC and other high impact peer-reviewed journals. In 2013 he received the Clinical Excellence award from VGH.

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. Victor Huckell

Member-at-Large,
Clinical Professor

Dr. Victor F. Huckell earned his degree in Medicine from the University of British Columbia, Canada and is certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in both Internal Medicine and Cardiology (FRCPC).

During the 1960’s as a student at the University of British Columbia, Dr. Huckell was the recipient of numerous undergraduate awards ranging from Government of British Columbia Scholarships to the Yates Memorial Award, the Mosby Scholarship Award, the Florence Heighway Medical Award, the Dr. A. E. Trites Memorial Prize in Obstetrics and Cardiology, The H. Rock Robinson Prize in Surgery, The Dr. A. B. Schinbein Memorial Scholarship, The Hamber Scholarship in Medicine, and the Dean MM Weaver Gold Medal.

As a postgraduate trainee his achievements were no less impressive, having received the PARI-BC Award for Teaching and Excellence and various other service and teaching awards.

Having been a general practitioner on Vancouver Island from 1970 to 1972 he returned to the University of British Columbia where he held various positions at the Vancouver General Hospital in association with the University of British Columbia including Chief Medical Resident. He then moved to Toronto where he served as Senior and then Chief Resident in Cardiology at the Toronto Hospital in association with the University of Toronto.

In 1978, Dr. Huckell returned to Vancouver. He currently serves as a Clinical Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at the University of British Columbia; Invasive Cardiologist, on Staff at the Vancouver General Hospital. He has continued to receive numerous awards for teaching endeavors; including the University of British Columbia Excellence in Teaching Award (Killam Award), the St. Paul’s Hospital Bruce Shallard Lecturer award (Distinguished Teaching), the Canadian Cardiovascular Society Distinguished Teacher Award, the UBC Division of Cardiology Clinical Mentor Award, the Canadian Cardiovascular Society Visionary Award twice, the UBC Department of Medicine Master Teacher Award, the UBC Clinical Faculty Award for Career Excellence in Clinical Teaching, and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.

Since 1978, Dr. Huckell has held numerous teaching positions and served on numerous committees. For example, in 1981 he founded and served as Director of the British Columbia Cardiac Society and in 1985 he served as Regional Governor of the American Heart Association Council on Clinical Cardiology. In 1978, he became the first Postgraduate Training Program Director for Cardiology at the University of British Columbia and was responsible for creating a new Subspecialty Training Program.

In 1988, Dr. Huckell co-founded and directed the Congenital Heart Advisory Team subsequently renamed as the Pacific Adult Congenital Heart (PACH) Group – an interdisciplinary group for adults with congenital heart disease. As a follow-up 3 years later, he co-founded the Canadian Adult Congenital cardiac Heart Disease Network (CACH Network) a similar group with a national scope. He founded an annual national cardiology resident review course (National Consensus Conference or NATICON) which developed into the Canadian Cardiovascular Society Annual Resident Training Day.

Other commitments to national and international teaching positions, professional societies and committees including being a previous director of the Heart and Stroke Foundations of both British Columbia and Canada, Counselor of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society, past Chair of the Royal College Specialty Committee on Cardiology, previous member of the UBC Medical School of Admission Committee, previous member of the UBC Clinical Faculty Committee, and past regional Governor for the American College of Cardiology.

He is currently a member of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society Continuing Professional Development Committee, its External Relations Committee and its Membership Committee as well as being President-Elect of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society Academy.

In addition to his Fellowships with the Royal College of Canada he is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, Fellow of the American Heart Association, Fellow of the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Intervention, Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine (Cardiology) and an American Society of Hypertension Clinical Hypertension Specialist.

He is as noted above a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. In this role he runs a busy teaching office Cardiology practice and has had the privilege of mentoring over 520 Residents and 310 4th year Medical Students to date. He is the Director of Education and is on the executive committee for the UBC Division of Cardiology.

In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Dr. Huckell has delivered more than 2005 presentations on Cardiology and patterns of practice. He has co-authored 4 National Practice Guidelines (Adult Congenital Heart disease, Women and Cardiovascular Health, Peripheral Arterial Disease, Stable Ischemic Heart Disease), 53 peer-reviewed articles, 66 abstracts, 2 textbook chapters and 41 non-peers reviewed papers. He has also created 59 special education projects including enduring materials such as teaching DVD’s, CDs and educational facilitation guides.

He has expertise in developing effective teaching techniques for enhancing the patterns of practice for busy clinical practitioners. He also has established particular expertise in adult congenital heart disease, valvular heart disease and obstetrical cardiology.

Dr. Saul Isserow

Clinical Assistant Professor

Dr. Isserow graduated in Medicine at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in 1986, and then moved to Canada where he practiced as a family physician until pursuing a residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation, and later a residency in internal medicine at the University of British Columbia. He completed a fellowship in Cardiology at UBC in 1996, and has been pursuing his career as a Cardiologist at VGH and UBC Hospital since 1997. He is actively involved in both patient care and research and is the Head of Clinical Cardiology at UBC as well as the Director of the VGH Centre for Cardiovascular Health. He has received numerous awards, including the Award for Clinical Excellence from Vancouver Coastal Health for 2008 and Master Teacher Awards from the Department Of Medicine and from the Department of Anesthesia. He is the founder and Medical Director of Sports Cardiology BC.

Dr. John Jue

Clinical Associate Professor

Dr. Ken Kaila

Clinical Assistant Professor (joint appt with Critical Care)

Dr. Kaila is a clinical assistant professor at UBC. He works in the cardiac intensive care unit, intensive care unit, general cardiology clinics, and inpatient services. He also works in the intensive care unit at Mount Saint Joseph Hospital. He attended medical school at the University of Manitoba. He then completed Internal Medicine and Cardiology training at the University of Alberta prior to pursuing further specialization in Critical Care Medicine at the University of British Columbia. His clinical interests are in general cardiology and intensive care including cardiac arrests, hemodynamic assessment, and patient safety.

Dr. Andrew Krahn

Professor (tenure)

Dr. Krahn is a Professor in the Division of Cardiology at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Krahn has research funded by a Foundation grant from the Canadian Institute of Health Research through 2027, with 416 peer reviewed publications. Current research interests include investigation of genetic causes of arrhythmias, causes of loss of consciousness and implantable arrhythmia devices. Dr. Krahn is the founder of the Hearts in Rhythm Organization (HiRO, https://hiro.heartsinrhythm.ca), a Canadian network of inherited arrhythmia clinics. HiRO aims to facilitate collaborative research and engage patients and families with inherited arrhythmias, as well as ensure high quality and standardized care across Canada. He is the Sauder Family Chair and UBC Chief of Cardiology, and the Paul Brunes Chair in Heart Rhythm Disorders. He is the President of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society and Vice President of the Heart Rhythm Society.

Dr. Benny Lau

Clinical Assistant Professor

Dr. Benny Lau completed his medical education, and subsequently Internal Medicine residency, Cardiology residency, as well as Cardiac Rehabilitation and Preventive Cardiology fellowship at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He is a clinical assistant professor with the Department of Medicine at UBC, and is the program director for the UBC Cardiac Rehabilitation and Preventive Cardiology fellowship. He is currently the director of General Cardiology, Cardiac Electrodiagnostics, and the Cardiology Stat Clinic at VGH, associate director of the SPH Cardiac Rehabilitation Program, and the medical director of the YMCA Healthy Heart Program.

Dr. Andrea Lee

Clinical Assistant Professor

Dr. Andrea Lee is a Clinical Assistant Professor with the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She completed her Doctor of Medicine degree as well as her Internal Medicine and Cardiology residencies at UBC. She went on to complete her Clinical Electrophysiology subspecialty fellowship at UBC and Western University. Outside of her general cardiology practice, she also sees patients in the Atrial Fibrillation Clinic and Cardiac Device Clinic at VGH.

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. G. B. John Mancini

Professor (tenure)

Dr. G.B. John Mancini is a tenured Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and directs an imaging-based research program (Cardiovascular Imaging Research Core Laboratory, CIRCL) that includes facilities for quantitative coronary angiography, ultrasound analysis (coronaries, carotids and brachial artery for atherosclerosis and endothelial function assessments) and cardiac computed tomography analysis. Dr. Mancini remains in active practice as a staff physician in the Vancouver Hospital Cardiology Outpatient Clinic and the Cardiac Computed Tomography Program as well as the St. Paul’s Hospital Healthy Heart Prevention Program/Lipid Clinic.

Dr. Mancini received his MD degree from the University of Toronto, completed his residency at Toronto General Hospital and was a Cardiology and Research Fellow at the University of California at San Diego. After a year in the rank of Clinical Assistant Professor at U.C. San Diego, he joined the faculty of the University of Michigan, where he became Associate Chief of Cardiology and the Chief of the V.A. Section of Cardiology in 1987. He became Chair of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, 1992-2002. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, Governor of the American College of Cardiology (British Columbia) and a member of the Circulation Council of the American Heart Association; he is also a member of numerous other professional associations in the United States and Canada. Dr. Mancini is the Past President of the Canadian Society for Clinical Investigation and current President of the Medical/Allied Staff of Vancouver Hospital. He has published over two hundred and fifty journal articles, abstracts, books, and book chapters. He serves as a reviewer for many journals and is currently a member of the editorial boards of the American Journal of Cardiology, the Canadian Journal of Cardiology, and the International Journal of Cardiac Imaging.

Dr. Mancini is currently Coordinating Investigator for the Cardiovascular Imaging Research Core Laboratory for numerous multi-centered trials. His areas of special interest include digital angiography, quantitative coronary angiography, quantitative intravascular ultrasound, quantitative carotid ultrasound, cardiac computed tomography, coronary flow reserve/fractional flow reserve, endothelial dysfunction, primary and secondary CV risk reduction and regression of atherosclerosis.

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. Parvathy Nair

Head, UBC Cardiology Education,
Clinical Professor

DHCC, 2775 Laurel St
Level 9, Cardiology
Vancouver, BC V5Z1M9

Dr. Savvas Nicolaou

Associate Professor

Dr. Savvas Nicolaou is the Director of Emergency and Trauma Imaging at Vancouver General Hospital, as well as a Professor  of Radiology at the University of British Columbia.  He is also the vice chair of undergraduate education and continuous professional development. He completed his medical degree at the University of Toronto, and residency in Diagnostic Radiology at University of British Columbia.

Dr. Nicolaou has been actively involved in teaching medical students, residents, and fellows and has served as a mentor for many of them. At the Faculty of Medicine, he has been involved as the Director of the Undergraduate Radiology Education, where he has helped to integrate radiology into the medical curriculum. He has been the recipient of many teaching awards, and was recently presented with the UBC Killam Teaching Prize in 2013, which recognizes all aspects of outstanding teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Dr. Nicolaou continues to contribute to the field of emergency radiology, publishing over 150 articles and over 400 abstracts in peer-reviewed journals. Using state-of-the-art imaging technology, he is investigating ways to develop faster, safer, and more sensitive methods for diagnosing patients in the acute care setting. Major focus of research is on Ultra Low dose techniques in the acute setting, Dual Energy CT in the acute setting, Polytrauma Imaging, Brain Perfusion in trauma and role of MRI in the acute setting and AI in the acute setting.

– Medical Degrees, other degrees:  MD,FRCPC
– Board certification:  FRCPC-certified radiologist. ABR-certified radiologist, SCCT level 3 certified in Cardiac Imaging.
– Internship: Surgical Internship St Michaels Hospital UT
– Residency: University of British Columbia
– Sub-specialty and interests: ER/Trauma imaging, Musculoskeletal Imaging, Cardiac Imaging, Dual-Energy CT
– University Appointment and titles:  Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, UBC Vice-Chair of Undergraduate Radiology Medical Education and Continuing Professional Development
– Hospital appointment: Director of ER/Trauma Imaging, Vancouver General Hospital

Dr. Kevin Ong

Clinical Assistant Professor

Dr. Ong is a clinical assistant professor at UBC and director of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Clinic at St. Paul’s Hospital. He works concurrently in the cardiac intensive care unit and echocardiography lab. Dr. Ong is a graduate of the University of Toronto medical school, and UBC Internal Medicine and Cardiology fellowship programs. He completed advanced fellowships in echocardiography and hypertrophic/amyloid cardiomyopathy at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.

Dr. Simon Rabkin

Professor (tenure)

Active in cardiology research and patient care. Dr. Rabkin has published over 250 scientific papers or book chapters. His fields of interest include the pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease including hypertension, aortic diseases, electrocardiography, and others. He has received a number of recent awards for his contributions to medicine.

Dr. Krish Ramanathan

Clinical Professor

Dr. Krishnan Ramanathan Graduated from the University of Otago Medical School, in Dunedin, New Zealand. He completed his training in Cardiology at Green-Lane Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand before traveling to North America where he gained experience in Interventional cardiologist and clinical research. He returned to Vancouver in 2006 with appointments’ at both St. Paul’s Hospital and Vancouver General Hospital. He is currently the Medical Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) at St. Paul’s Hospital as well as being a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia.

Since coming to British Columbia he has been active in research to better understand the complex interplay between coronary artery disease (CAD), Diabetes mellitus and or reno-vascular disease through international multi-center clinical trials and local research. He is also a leader in ethnicity research trying to understand the determinants for the increased incidence of atherosclerosis amongst South Asians. His experience in clinical trials consists of membership in many Steering / Operations Committees, Data, and Safety Monitoring Boards and Writings Committees. He was the inaugural recipient of the St Paul’s Hospital Foundation Physicians Scholars Award and a co-applicant on a number of national grants.

His publications are numerous and he is actively involved in all levels of education ranging from medical students to organizing continuing medical education for physicians. He has been involved with provincial guideline development for Chest pain management and Atrial fibrillation. He is a co-chair of the regional STEMI management committee and the co-chair of the provincial ACS registry.

Dr. Thomas Roston

Clinical Assistant Professor

Dr. Thomas Roston is a cardiologist and clinician-scientist at St. Paul’s Hospital and Vancouver General Hospital and the Dr. Charles Kerr Distinguished Scholar in Cardiovascular Genetics. 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. Janarthanan Sathananthan

Clinical Assistant Professor

Dr Janarthanan (Janar) Sathananthan is an interventional cardiologist at St. Paul’s and Vancouver General Hospital. Janar graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBChB) from the University of Auckland (Distinction) and completed cardiology training through the Greenlane Cardiology Program in Auckland, New Zealand and is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. During his cardiology training he also completed a Masters of Public Health (MPH) focusing on research methodology. He completed four years of subspecialty training in interventional cardiology which included 1 year at Greenlane Cardiology (Auckland, New Zealand), 1 year at Toronto General Hospital (Toronto) focussing on complex coronary intervention, and a further two years at the Centre for Heart Valve Innovation (Vancouver) focussing on structural heart interventions. His clinical interests include both coronary and structural intervention. He is active in both pre-clinical and clinical research with a focus on structural heart disease. Pre-clinical interests focus on bench testing of cardiovascular devices, and he is Director of the Centre for Heart Valve Innovation Bench Testing Laboratory. He is a Canadian representative for the International Standards Organization (ISO), an advisory body for the testing of cardiovascular devices.

Dr. Jacqueline Saw

Clinical Professor

Dr. Jacqueline Saw is an Interventional Cardiologist at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) with a joint appointment at St Paul’s Hospital. She is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, and Program Director of the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program at VGH. She also served as the Head of VGH Cardiology Clinical Trials Research. She is an active clinician, researcher and educator.

She was awarded Canada Scholar and the Dean’s Entrance Scholarship for Natural Sciences at Simon Fraser University for her undergraduate degree. She obtained her medical doctorate at the University of Ottawa, graduating summa cum laude. She completed her Internal Medicine and Cardiology residencies at the University of British Columbia, and served as chief cardiology fellow. She then completed her Interventional Cardiology fellowship training at Cleveland Clinic Foundation, which encompassed carotid, peripheral and structural training. She has been an active staff with the Division of Cardiology at VGH and St Paul’s Hospital since 2004. She is also a physician proctor for left atrial appendage (LAA) closure with the Amplatzer Cardiac Plug/Amulet and WATCHMAN devices globally.

Dr. Saw is a pioneer and leader in research and management of spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) (http://scad.ubc.ca), and is the principal investigator of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) funded multi-center prospective Canadian SCAD Study. Her other research interests include LAA closure, non-atherosclerotic coronary artery disease (including coronary fibromuscular dysplasia), antiplatelet therapy, percutaneous coronary intervention, carotid artery stenting, peripheral arterial disease and intervention. She is also the principal investigator of PRYME, NACAD, SAFER-SCAD, Canadian WATCHMAN Registry, TAP-CABG, and ELAPSE studies. She has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications, including scientific research studies, review articles and book chapters. She is also the editor of three textbooks on carotid artery stenting and LAA closure.

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. Lynn Straatman

Clinical Assistant Professor

Dr. Michael Tsang

Clinical Associate Professor

Dr. Michael Tsang is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Cardiology at the University of British Columbia. He completed his MD and residency training at the University of British Columbia, and advanced echocardiography and research training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. His clinical expertise and research interests include the use of echocardiography for assessing valvular heart disease and the application of echocardiographic strain imaging in the evaluation of myocardial dysfunction.

Dr. Teresa Tsang

Professor (Tenure)

Dr. Tsang is a Professor in the Division of Cardiology. She came to UBC in October 2009 from the Mayo Clinic and specializes in echocardiography and clinical epidemiology. She is internationally recognized for her research in atrial fibrillation, echocardiographic prediction, and prevention of first atrial fibrillation, heart failure, and stroke; atrial remodeling and reversal; and diastolic dysfunction.

Dr. Tsang has been Associate Head Research in the Department of Medicine since 2011. She is on the Board of Directors for the Canadian Society of Echocardiography. She is the Director of Echo Lab for VGH and UBC. She is a CIHR-NSERC funded investigator.

Dr. Tony Ankush Verma

Clinical Instructor

Dr. Sean Virani

Head, PHC Cardiology,
Clinical Associate Professor

Dr. Virani is the Head of Cardiology at Providence Health Care and Physician Program Director for the Provincial Heart Centre at St. Paul’s Hospital.

A key opinion leader for heart failure in Canada, Dr. Virani is the Heart Failure Physician Lead and Senior Medical Advisor at Cardiac Services BC, Past-President and Chair of the Canadian Heart Failure Society as well as Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia.

He completed his internal medicine and cardiology training at UBC before embarking on a sub-specialization in heart failure and cardiac transplantation at Stanford University. He also has a Master’s degree in Public Health from Columbia University with a focus on healthcare management. His professional interests include public policy related to health care delivery with specific reference to healthcare systems redesign and quality in the Canadian context.

Dr. Virani has authored a number of papers on chronic and acute decompensated heart failure and is a principal investigator on numerous research trials with extensive grant funding.

He is Co-Chair of the Canadian Cardio-Oncology Guidelines and is a primary panelist on the Canadian Heart Failure Guidelines. He is Co-Chair of the Provincial Advisory Panel on Cardiac Health and past Co-Chair of British Columbia’s Specialist Services Committee – a collaboration between the Doctors of BC and BC’s Ministry of Health. He also serves as Medical Director for HeartLife Foundation, Canada’s first and only patient-led national heart failure organization.

Dr. Darryl Wan

Clinical Assistant Professor

Dr. Darryl Wan, MD, FRCPC, RPVI is a general cardiologist and a member of the Division of Cardiology at St. Paul’s Hospital, Mount St. Joseph Hospital, and Vancouver General Hospital. He completed medical school, Internal Medicine residency, and Cardiology fellowship at the University of British Columbia. He then completed a Vascular Medicine fellowship in McMaster University, where he also certified as a Registered Physician in Vascular Interpretation. His clinical interests are in general cardiology, peripheral vascular disease and cardiovascular prevention.

Dr. John Webb

Professor (grant tenure)

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Dr. Webb is the director of interventional cardiology at St. Paul’s Hospital, McLeod Professor at UBC, Medical Director of the Transcatheter Valve Program for the Province of BC.

As director of the Centre for Heart Valve Innovation, he leads the group that developed the most widely used transcatheter aortic valve implantation procedures as well as many other first-in-human devices and procedures. He has performed or supervised over 3,000 aortic, mitral, pulmonary, and tricuspid valve procedures in over 30 countries throughout North America, Europe, and Australasia and has authored over 500 publications.

Dr. Graham Wong

Clinical Professor

Dr. Wong graduated from medical school at UBC. He completed his internal medicine residency at UBC and subsequently completed his fellowship training in cardiology at McGill University. He then pursued a 2-year research fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital with the TIMI Group and completed his MPH at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is also board certified by the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography.

He is the Program Director for the UBC Adult Cardiology Residency Training Program, the Associate Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Vancouver General Hospital, the Medical Director of the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority (VCHA) Regional STEMI Program and the Regional Physician Lead for Acute Cardiac Care for VCHA. He is a sitting member of the AHA Acute Care Cardiology Committee and is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at UBC.

Dr. Wong has won a number of major teaching awards including the Canadian Cardiovascular Society Distinguished Teacher Award, UBC Clinical Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, the VGH Bobby Miller Teaching Prize, the UBC Department of Medicine Master Teacher Award and the UBC Killam Teaching Prize.

Dr. Wong was the Co-chair for both the 2019 CCS/CAIC Guideline on the Management of ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) and the 2017 CCS/CANCARE/CAIC Position Statement on the Optimal Care of the Post Arrest Patient. He was also a member of the Primary Author Panel for the 2013 and 2018 CCS Guidelines on Antiplatelet Therapy and is a member of the Primary Author Panel for the 2020 CCS/Canadian Neurocritical Care Society Position Statement on Neuroprognostication following Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest.

Dr. David Wood

Head, VCH Cardiology,
Clinical Professor

Dr. David Wood is a Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. He is the Head of the Division of Cardiology and the Medical Director for the Cardiac Sciences Program at Vancouver Coastal Health. He is the inaugural Director of the Centre for Cardiovascular Innovation – Centre d’Innovation Cardiovasculaire (CCI-CIC), a clinical research operation centre with 39 affiliated staff and 72 cardiovascular investigators in British Columbia. Dr. Wood is the President of the Canadian Association of Interventional Cardiology (CAIC-ACCI). He received the Luminary Award at the recent C3 Global Submit. He is the Course Director of the CAIC-ACCI Summit, an open Canadian forum to discuss controversies in complex coronary and structural heart disease interventions.

Dr. Wood works as a structural and interventional cardiologist at St. Paul’s and Vancouver General Hospital. He obtained subspecialty training at Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute of New York. His primary research interests include transcatheter management of structural and valvular heart disease, new device development, novel strategies for treating ACS, and advanced cardiac imaging. Dr. Wood has participated in over 50 live-cases and 20 first-in-human cases. He has co-authored over 200 publications with an h-index of 74. He recently published the 3M TAVR Study (JACC CVI), the SAFE MANTA Study (Circ CVI), and was co-principal investigator of the CIHR funded COMPLETE trial (4,041 patients, 140 centres, 31 countries) that was presented as Late Breaking Science at both ESC and TCT with simultaneous publication in NEJM and JACC. He is currently PI of the COMPLETE TAVR trial (n = 4000, 103 centres), the DISCORDANCE TAVR study (n = 50, 11 centres), the ULTRA CLOSURE study (n = 250, 7 centres), and the PROTECT TAVR study (n = 200, 15 centres). In May 2020, in collaboration with 15 North American Cardiovascular Society Leaders representing over 90,000 clinicians, he simultaneously published Safe Reintroduction of Cardiovascular Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic in JACC, CJC, and the ATS.

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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.

Dr. Richard Cook

Dr. Mike Janusz

Dr. Jong Moo (Steve) Kim

Dr. Steve Kim is a clinical instructor in the UBC Department of Surgery and an attending cardiac surgeon at Vancouver General Hospital and St. Paul’s Hospital. His subspecialty areas of interest include surgical treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and aortic surgery.

After finishing his medical education and cardiac surgery residency training at UBC, Dr. Kim completed a fellowship in advanced cardiovascular surgery at Mayo Clinic. In 2019, he returned to Vancouver and helped establish the province’s first dedicated surgical septal myectomy program, which has since become an integral part of the HCM Clinic at St. Paul’s Hospital.

Dr. Kim is actively pursuing clinical and outcomes research, and he is currently involved in developing a provincial database for septal reduction therapy. Through the multidisciplinary collaboration at the HCM Clinic, he hopes to continue improving the quality and accessibility of comprehensive surgical care for the HCM patient population in British Columbia.

Dr. Edward Percy

Dr. Joel Price

Dr. Joel Price is a Clinical Assistant Professor and an attending cardiac surgeon at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Price completed his residency in cardiac surgery at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. He completed advanced fellowships in complex valve reconstruction at the Cliniques Universitaires Saint – Luc in Brussels, Belgium, and a second in aortic and endovascular surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. He received his Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard University. He began his career as an attending Cardiac Surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Johns Hopkins University. In 2016, he returned to Canada to join the faculty at UBC.

Dr. Price’s clinical interests include valve reconstruction and aortic and endovascular surgery. This includes general aortic surgery, aortic and mitral valve reconstruction, endovascular aortic surgery, and minimally invasive and transcatheter valve therapies. Dr. Price has a special interest in the repair of bicuspid aortic valve, including aortic valve-sparing root replacement and leaflet repair.

With a background in epidemiology, Dr. Price focuses his research on outcomes in aortic and valvular heart surgery, clinical trials and simulation in surgical education. He is a co-author on over 50 peer-reviewed publications and is the recipient of numerous research and teaching awards.

Dr. Peter Skarsgard

Head, VCH Division of Cardiovascular Surgery

Patricia Choy

Cardiology NP at Vancouver General Hospital

Leah Christoff

Cardiology NP at Vancouver General Hospital

Leah Christoff completed her MSN / Nurse Practitioner degree at UBC. She was within the inaugural class of graduates and one of the first NPs to join Vancouver Coastal Health as a family nurse practitioner. She completed her undergraduate degree in nursing at the University of Victoria.

She is one of the first nurse practitioners in the VGH Heart Function Clinic and assisted with its inception as a collaborative and multidisciplinary team under the guidance of cardiology champions.

Her passion for heart failure care has led the development of Heart Failure Care in the Home Innovation Project HF-CHIP for the frailest clients.

She is a founding member of the BC Nurse Practitioners Association and spent many years on their executive expanding NP practice. Past adjunct professor UNBC.

Leah is on the newly formed Board for the Department of Nurse Practitoners where she is the executive lead for Vancouver acute / ambulatory NPs. She is the chair of the QA/ QI / Critical incidence committee for the Department of Nurse Practitioners at VGH.

Nancy Gwadry

Cardiology NP at Vancouver General Hospital

Attended the University of Florida and graduated in 1993 with a degree in Nursing. Completed a Fellowship in Critical Care at Washington Hospital Center in 1996. Graduated from Rush University, Chicago, in 2000 with a Masters in Nursing, Acute Care Nurse Practitioner.

Extensive experience in cardiovascular area, previously worked in Calgary, Foothills Medical Centre in Cardiac Surgery for 12 years. Provincial Director of CCCN Alberta from 2011-2015.
Nurse Practitioner in the Cardiac Function Clinic at Vancouver General Hospital since 2015.

Participates in the Quality Assurance Committee for Nurse Practitioners at Vancouver General Hospital.

Active Volunteer with West Point Grey Academy and West Coast Squash Academy.

Lana Moroz

Cardiology NP at Vancouver General Hospital

Lana Moroz is a graduate of the University of British Columbia Master of Science in Nursing / Family Nurse Practitioner degree. She completed her undergraduate degree in nursing with Honors at Douglas College.

Nurse Practitioner in the Atrial Fibrillation Clinic at Vancouver General Hospital since 2018.

Participates in the Quality Assurance and Improvement /Critical Incidence Committee for Nurse Practitioners at Vancouver General Hospital.
Member of Vancouver Coastal Health Medical Staff Editorial Board.

Jane Narayan

Patti Yip

Cardiac Surgery NP at Vancouver General Hospital

Dr. Saul Isserow

Clinical Assistant Professor

Dr. Isserow graduated in Medicine at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in 1986, and then moved to Canada where he practiced as a family physician until pursuing a residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation, and later a residency in internal medicine at the University of British Columbia. He completed a fellowship in Cardiology at UBC in 1996, and has been pursuing his career as a Cardiologist at VGH and UBC Hospital since 1997. He is actively involved in both patient care and research and is the Head of Clinical Cardiology at UBC as well as the Director of the VGH Centre for Cardiovascular Health. He has received numerous awards, including the Award for Clinical Excellence from Vancouver Coastal Health for 2008 and Master Teacher Awards from the Department Of Medicine and from the Department of Anesthesia. He is the founder and Medical Director of Sports Cardiology BC.

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. Teddi Lynn Orenstein Lyall

Clinical Assistant Professor