Dr. Thomas Roston

Dr. Thomas Roston

Clinical Assistant Professor

MD, PhD

Biography

Dr. Thomas Roston is the director of the Centre for Cardiovascular Disease in the Young at DCI. He is a cardiologist and clinician-scientist at St. Paul’s Hospital and Vancouver General Hospital, a clinical assistant professor at UBC.

He completed medical school and internal medicine and cardiology residencies at UBC, twice serving as chief resident. His additional training includes a University of Alberta PhD on inherited heart disease, UBC’s Clinician Investigator Program, cardiovascular genetics at Harvard Medical School and cardiac critical care in Alberta. His research focuses on cardiovascular genetics, heart disease affecting younger people and critical care cardiology.

Publications

American heart journal plus : cardiology research and practice

The design and rationale of the cardiac REHABilitation to improve metabolic health in Hypertrophic CardioMyopathy (REHAB-HCM) Study.

Cheung M, Moulson N, Gelinas JC, Daraei A, Bradwell SM, Taylor C, Eves ND, Koelwyn GJ, Roston TM

The Canadian journal of cardiology

Premature Acute Myocardial Infarction Treated With Invasive Revascularization: Comparing STEMI With NSTEMI in a Population-Based Study of Young Patients.

Roston TM, Aghanya V, Savu A, Fordyce CB, Lawler PR, Jentzer J, Wong GC, Brunham LR, Senaratne J, van Diepen S, Kaul P

Cardiac electrophysiology clinics

Calcium Release Deficiency Syndrome: A New Inherited Arrhythmia Syndrome.

Kallas D, Roberts JD, Sanatani S, Roston TM

Circulation

Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction in Patients Diagnosed With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy During Childhood: Insights From the SHaRe Registry.

Abou Alaiwi S, Roston TM, Marstrand P, Claggett BL, Parikh VN, Helms AS, Ingles J, Lampert R, Lakdawala NK, Michels M, Owens AT, Rossano JW, Saberi S, Abrams DJ, Ashley EA, Semsarian C, Stendahl JC, Ware JS, Miller E, Ryan TD, Russell MW, Day SM, Olivotto I, Vissing CR, Ho CY

JAMA cardiology

Clinical and Functional Characterization of Ryanodine Receptor 2 Variants Implicated in Calcium-Release Deficiency Syndrome.

Roston TM, Wei J, Guo W, Li Y, Zhong X, Wang R, Estillore JP, Peltenburg PJ, Noguer FRI, Till J, Eckhardt LL, Orland KM, Hamilton R, LaPage MJ, Krahn AD, Tadros R, Vinocur JM, Kallas D, Franciosi S, Roberts JD, Wilde AAM, Jensen HK, Sanatani S, Chen SRW