The Centre for Cardiac Critical Care integrates patient care, quality improvement, and clinical research focused on patients with acute cardiac conditions. The VGH Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) is the clinical hub of the Centre and provides care for acutely ill cardiac patients from across the province, including those with acute myocardial infarction, acute aortic syndromes, cardiogenic shock, complex arrythmia and cardiac arrest. The CICU is a major teaching unit for medical students and residents within the UBC Faculty of Medicine. The Centre has a longstanding history of leadership in multicentre clinical trials, as well as in clinical outcomes, through large provincial and international registries.
Centre for Cardiac Critical Care
Centre for Cardiac Critical Care
Innovation and Excellence in Cardiac Critical Care
“We are confronting the most difficult challenges for acutely ill cardiac patients through our care, commitment, and curiosity”
Dr. Chris Fordyce
Dr. Christopher Fordyce is the Director of the Centre for Critical Care, a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Vancouver General Hospital, Scientist at the UBC Centre for Advancing Health Outcomes, and Clinical Lead of Site-based Research for the UBC Centre for Cardiovascular Innovation. Following medical school at McGill University, he trained in both Internal Medicine and Cardiology at UBC, and completed a clinical research fellowship in cardiovascular disease at the Duke Clinical Research Institute as well as subspecialty training in cardiac critical care at Duke University Hospital. His clinical and research interests lie predominately in acute cardiac conditions, including acute coronary syndrome and cardiac arrest, as well as chronic coronary disease. He also completed the Program in Clinical Effectiveness at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a Master’s of Health Science in Clinical Research through the Duke School of Medicine.
Dr. Fordyce has authored over 160 peer-reviewed manuscripts and chaired, and has served as chair or on the primary panel of several national/international guideline documents. Dr. Fordyce is a recipient of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Health Professional-Investigator Award. He has won multiple teaching awards, including Best Clinical Mentor in the UBC Division of Cardiology.
