Thomas Roston

Dr. Thomas Roston is a clinical assistant professor in the Division of Cardiology at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He is a cardiologist and clinician-scientist at St. Paul’s Hospital and Vancouver General Hospital. Dr. Roston also leads the Centre for Cardiovascular Disease in the Young at the Dilawri Cardiovascular Institute. 

Dr. Roston received his Doctor of Medicine from UBC, 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.