Teresa Tsang

Dr. Teresa Tsang is associate head of research for the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC), as well as a cardiologist and director of echocardiography at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) and UBC Hospital. She is the director of the VGH-UBC Echo Lab and the UBC AI Echo Core Lab, and co-leads the UBC Data Science and Health Research Cluster.

Dr. Tsang completed medical school at the University of Alberta, where she also completed fellowships in internal medicine and cardiology. During her cardiology fellowship she was awarded both Medical Research Council of Canada and Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research awards, under which she studied clinical epidemiology at the National Institutes of Health. After a year as staff cardiologist at Vernon Jubilee Hospital in B.C., Dr. Tsang began a fellowship in echocardiography at the Mayo Clinic, where she was subsequently offered a staff position in cardiology. She worked for more than 10 years as a clinician and researcher. She became a professor in the UBC Department of Medicine in 2009. 

Dr. Tsang's research program is principally focused on physiologic and pathophysiologic aging of the cardiovascular system, and the prediction and prevention of adverse age-related cardiovascular events, including atrial fibrillation heart failure, stroke, and cognitive dysfunction. Her team has been investigating the use of advanced echocardiographic techniques to detect changes in the structure or function of individual heart chambers and how these changes are associated with future development of disease. More recently, she and her team have developed machine learning models for echo imaging, enabling automated assessment of cardiac structure and function, and prediction of heart failure, stroke and other age-related adverse outcomes.