Cardiologist and CICU Director
Vancouver General Hospital
University of British Columbia
Dr. Christopher Fordyce joined the Division of Cardiology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 2016 and is currently a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine. He is the Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Vancouver General Hospital, Clinical Lead of Site-Based Research for the UBC Centre for Cardiovascular Innovation, and Scientist at the UBC Centre for Advancing Health Outcomes. Following medical school at McGill University, he trained in both Internal Medicine and Cardiology at UBC. He completed a clinical research fellowship in cardiovascular disease at the Duke Clinical Research Institute as well as subspecialty training in cardiac critical care at Duke University Hospital. His clinical and research interests lie predominately in acute cardiac conditions, including acute coronary syndrome and cardiac arrest, as well as chronic coronary disease. 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. He was the Chair of the American Heart Association Scientific Statement on Preventing Complications in the CICU (2020), Co-chair of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS) Position Statement for Neuroprognostication following Cardiac Arrest (2023), was on the Primary Panel for the CCS STEMI (2019) and Fitness to Drive (2023) guidelines, as well as the CCS Cardiac Arrest Clinical Practice Update (2024). He has authored over 160 peer-reviewed manuscripts, many in high-impact journals such as Circulation, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, JAMA Cardiology and the New England Journal of Medicine. He serves on the Editorial Board of the American Heart Journal. Dr. Fordyce is a recipient of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Health Professional-Investigator Award. He has won multiple teaching awards, including Best Clinical Mentor in the UBC Division of Cardiology.
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