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Christina Luong

Clinical Assistant Professor
Academic Appointment
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research Focus
Blood, Heart and Circulation
Degrees / Designations

MD, M.H.Sc., FRCPC

Contact Info
christina.luong@ubc.ca

Biography

Dr. Christina Luong is a researcher with the Centre for Cardiovascular Innovation, a clinical assistant professor within the Division of Cardiology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and member of the Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) and UBC Hospital Echocardiography Laboratory. She practices general cardiology and provides services for the VGH Short Term Assessment and Treatment 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 VGH and at the Mayo Clinic. She also completed a Master of Health Science through UBC.

Dr. Luong 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.

Research Studies

Blood, Heart and Circulation

Evaluating the efficacy of evogliptin for aortic stenosis

News and Awards

Machine learning for handheld cardiac ultrasounds

Aug 19, 2024

Investigator Awards 2024 Recipients

Apr 9, 2024

Investigator Awards 2021 Recipients

Apr 13, 2021

Innovation and Translational Research Awards 2020 Recipients

Jun 23, 2020

Publications

  • International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery -

    Cardiac point-of-care to cart-based ultrasound translation using constrained CycleGAN.

    Jafari MH, Girgis H, Van Woudenberg N, Moulson N, Luong C, Fung A, Balthazaar S, Jue J, Tsang M, Nair P, Gin K, Rohling R, Abolmaesumi P, Tsang T
  • Mayo Clinic proceedings -

    Artificial Intelligence in Cardiology: Present and Future.

    Lopez-Jimenez F, Attia Z, Arruda-Olson AM, Carter R, Chareonthaitawee P, Jouni H, Kapa S, Lerman A, Luong C, Medina-Inojosa JR, Noseworthy PA, Pellikka PA, Redfield MM, Roger VL, Sandhu GS, Senecal C, Friedman PA
  • The international journal of cardiovascular imaging -

    Automated estimation of echocardiogram image quality in hospitalized patients.

    Luong C, Liao Z, Abdi A, Girgis H, Rohling R, Gin K, Jue J, Yeung D, Szefer E, Thompson D, Tsang MY, Lee PK, Nair P, Abolmaesumi P, Tsang TSM
  • Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) -

    Point-of-care ultrasound in the COVID-19 era: A scoping review.

    Yau O, Gin K, Luong C, Jue J, Abolmaesumi P, Tsang M, Nair P, Tsang TSM
  • IEEE transactions on medical imaging -

    Echo-SyncNet: Self-Supervised Cardiac View Synchronization in Echocardiography.

    Dezaki FT, Luong C, Ginsberg T, Rohling R, Gin K, Abolmaesumi P, Tsang T
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