• Professor of Medicine at UBC
• Director of the UBC Adult Cardiology Training Program
• Associate Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Vancouver General Hospital
• Regional Physician Lead, Vancouver Coastal Health Authority Acute Cardiac Care and Medical Director, Vancouver Coastal Health Authority STEMI Program
• Primary research interests include optimization of regional systems of care for STEMI and OHCA
• Numerous teaching awards including 2014 UBC Killam Teaching Prize, 2018 UBC Dept of Medicine Master Teacher Award and 2019 CCS Distinguished Teacher Award
• Co-Chair of the 2017 CCS/CANCARE/CAIC Position Statement on Optimal Care of the Post Arrest Patient and the 2019 CCS/CAIC Guideline on the Acute Management of ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction

Dr. Wong graduated from medical school at UBC. He completed his internal medicine residency at UBC and subsequently completed his fellowship training in cardiology at McGill University. He then pursued a 2-year research fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital with the TIMI Group and completed his MPH at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is also board certified by the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography.

He is the Program Director for the UBC Adult Cardiology Residency Training Program, the Associate Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Vancouver General Hospital, the Medical Director of the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority (VCHA) Regional STEMI Program and the Regional Physician Lead for Acute Cardiac Care for VCHA. He is a sitting member of the AHA Acute Care Cardiology Committee and is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at UBC.

Dr. Wong has won a number of major teaching awards including the Canadian Cardiovascular Society Distinguished Teacher Award, UBC Clinical Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, the VGH Bobby Miller Teaching Prize, the UBC Department of Medicine Master Teacher Award and the UBC Killam Teaching Prize.

Dr. Wong was the Co-chair for both the 2019 CCS/CAIC Guideline on the Management of ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) and the 2017 CCS/CANCARE/CAIC Position Statement on the Optimal Care of the Post Arrest Patient. He was also a member of the Primary Author Panel for the 2013 and 2018 CCS Guidelines on Antiplatelet Therapy and is a member of the Primary Author Panel for the 2020 CCS/Canadian Neurocritical Care Society Position Statement on Neuroprognostication following Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest.