Dr. Anthony Sze-Leung Tang
Dr. Anthony Tang is an Academic Clinician in Cardiology for IMP and a Professor in Medicine with UBC. He is a full- fledged cardiologist in private practice and part of VIHA’s cardiology medical staff. .Dr. Tang obtained his BSc and MD from the University of Toronto and his Internal Medicine and Cardiology Clinic training at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Tang obtained a Heart and Stroke Research Fellowship for his Electrophysiology research training at Duke University Medical Centre. He has taught with the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine since 1989 and was the Director of Cardiology Research and Electrophysiology at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute from 2000 to 2007. Dr. Tang currently holds a position as Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of Ottawa and is an attending physician at Royal Jubilee Hospital.
Dr. Tang is a well-published investigator, recognized nationally and internationally for research in device therapy specific to cardiac arrhythmia and heart failure. His main focus of research involves determining the efficacy of pacing therapy in patients with advanced heart failure and conduction abnormality. Dr. Tang currently holds a CIHR (CIHR/industry partnered) Research Chair in device therapy for cardiac arrhythmias.
