Dr. Patrick K. C. Tang

Medical Microbiologist , Laboratory Services, BCCDC and Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, UBC

Dr. Tang joined the BCCDC as a Medical Microbiologist and head of the tuberculosis/mycobacteriology section in 2006. He completed a combined MD/PhD focusing on bacterial pathogenesis in the laboratory of Dr. Brett Finlay at UBC in 1999. After finishing his residency training in Toronto, he conducted two years of post-doctoral research in the laboratories of Drs Don Ganem and Joseph DeRisi at the University of California, San Francisco where he studied viruses in various malignancies. Dr. Tang brings expertise in molecular diagnostics, microarrays and bioinformatics and he hopes to apply this in the clinical microbiology laboratory. He will continue researching novel agents in infectious diseases as well as infectious etiologies in chronic diseases and cancer.

Recent Publications

1. Tang P, Walsh S, Murray C, Alterman C, Varia M, Broukhanski G, Chedore P, DeKvoen J, Assaad D, Gold WL, Ghazarian D, Finkelstein M, Pritchard M, Yaffe B, Jamieson F, Henry B, Phillips E. Ghazarian D acupuncture-associated cutaneous Mycobacterium abscessus infections. J Cutan Med Surg. 2006 Jul;10(4): (in press).

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