Dr. Christina Luong is a clinical assistant professor within the Division of Cardiology at the University of British Columbia and the Head of Stress Echocardiography at Vancouver General Hospital. She is also the co-lead of the VGH-UBC AI Echo Core Lab. In addition to being an expert in cardiac ultrasound imaging, she also practices general cardiology and provides services for the VGH STAT clinic and inpatient consultation service. Her research interests include developing and applying deep learning models to echocardiography, as well as cardiac point-of-care ultrasound. She is a CIHR funded investigator and was the recipient of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society and HLS Therapeutics Atherosclerosis Research Award in 2022.
Dr. Luong is a graduate of the University of Alberta medical school and the UBC Internal Medicine and Cardiology fellowship programs. She completed advanced fellowships in echocardiography at VGH and the Mayo Clinic as well as a Master of Health Science at UBC. She holds the distinction of being a Friedman Scholar.
Dr. Luong currently serves on the board of the Canadian Society of Echocardiography.
