Christina Luong | MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FASE Cardiologist
Dr Luong is a Clinical Associate Professor within the Division of Cardiology at the University of British Columbia. She is the Head of Stress Echocardiography at Vancouver General Hospital and Co-director of the VGH-UBC Artificial Intelligence Echo Core Lab.
Diamond Health Care Centre – 9th Floor
2775 Laurel Street
Vancouver, BC
V5Z 1M9
Dr. Luong obtained her Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree at the University of Alberta and subsequently trained in Internal Medicine and Clinical Cardiology at the University of British Columbia. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
Dr. Luong completed an additional 2 years of subspeciality training in echocardiography at Vancouver General Hospital and at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. She specializes in Stress Echo and has trained with the world leaders in this modality.
Dr. Luong is a UBC Friedman Scholar with a Master of Health Sciences in Clinical Research. Her research interests focus on developing and applying deep learning models to echocardiography and cardiac point-of-care ultrasound. She also holds a Certificate in “Implementing Health Care AI into Clinical Practice” from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Luong has served in various leadership and service roles, including: As a grant reviewer (CIHR, CFI, CHFA, and VCHRI), Canadian Society of Echocardiography executive committee member, UBC Clinical Research Ethics Board member, UBC Division of Cardiology Executive Committee member, and as a journal manuscript reviewer (NEJM, Nature Communications, JASE, CJC, Mayo Clinic Proceedings – Digital Health, and others).
She was a nominated principal applicant and was awarded a $1,000,000 grant in 2025 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to conduct the HEART-AI study (High-precision Echo Assessment and Risk Triage of heart failure using Artificial Intelligence).
