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Christopher Fordyce

Clinical Assistant Professor
VCH Clinical Title(s)
Director, VGH Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Research Focus
Blood, Heart and Circulation Critical Care
Degrees / Designations

B.Sc., M.Sc., M.H.Sc., MD, CM, FRCPC

Contact Info
cfordyce@mail.ubc.ca
604-875-5230

Biography

Dr. Christopher Fordyce is a clinical assistant professor within the Division of Cardiology at the University of British Columbia (UBC), director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Vancouver General Hospital and a scientist at the Centre for Cardiovascular Innovation. Following medical school at McGill University, he trained in both internal medicine and cardiology at UBC. He also completed the program in clinical effectiveness at the Harvard School of Public Health and a Master of Health Science in clinical research through the Duke School of Medicine. 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. 

Dr. Fordyce’s clinical and research interests lie predominantly 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. Read more about Dr. Fordyce’s work here.

Research Studies

Heart Attack

EMPACT-MI: A Study to Test Whether Empagliflozin Can Lower the Risk of Heart Failure and Death in People Who Had a Heart Attack (Myocardial Infarction)

News and Awards

Big data for better cardiac care

Feb 17, 2023

Closing the gap between the sexes in heart care

Nov 17, 2021

Cooling cardiac arrest patients earlier could save lives

Jan 6, 2020

Publications

  • The New England journal of medicine -

    Outcomes of anatomical versus functional testing for coronary artery disease.

    Douglas PS, Hoffmann U, Patel MR, Mark DB, Al-Khalidi HR, Cavanaugh B, Cole J, Dolor RJ, Fordyce CB, Huang M, Khan MA, Kosinski AS, Krucoff MW, Malhotra V, Picard MH, Udelson JE, Velazquez EJ, Yow E, Cooper LS, Lee KL,
  • JAMA cardiology -

    Identification of Patients With Stable Chest Pain Deriving Minimal Value From Noninvasive Testing: The PROMISE Minimal-Risk Tool, A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial.

    Fordyce CB, Douglas PS, Roberts RS, Hoffmann U, Al-Khalidi HR, Patel MR, Granger CB, Kostis J, Mark DB, Lee KL, Udelson JE,
  • Circulation -

    Prevention of Complications in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.

    Fordyce CB, Katz JN, Alviar CL, Arslanian-Engoren C, Bohula EA, Geller BJ, Hollenberg SM, Jentzer JC, Sims DB, Washam JB, van Diepen S,
  • JAMA cardiology -

    Association of Public Health Initiatives With Outcomes for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest at Home and in Public Locations.

    Fordyce CB, Hansen CM, Kragholm K, Dupre ME, Jollis JG, Roettig ML, Becker LB, Hansen SM, Hinohara TT, Corbett CC, Monk L, Nelson RD, Pearson DA, Tyson C, van Diepen S, Anderson ML, McNally B, Granger CB
  • Circulation. Cardiovascular interventions -

    Association of Anemia With Outcomes Among ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients Receiving Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.

    Moghaddam N, Wong GC, Cairns JA, Goodman SG, Perry-Arnesen M, Tocher W, Mackay M, Singer J, Lee T, Rao SV, Fordyce CB
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