Dr. Patrick Tang is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of British Columbia and a Medical Microbiologist at St. Paul’s Hospital. After completing the MD/PhD program at UBC, he completed residency training in Medical Microbiology at the University of Toronto followed by post-doctoral training at the University of California, San Francisco. During the past global outbreak, he has taken on many roles, from the bedside to the laboratory bench to epidemiology, including the SARS outbreak, the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, and COVID-19 pandemic.

Prior to joining St. Paul’s Hospital, Dr. Tang was the Division Chief of Pathology Sciences and Microbiology at Sidra Medicine in Qatar from 2015 to 2023. Previously, he was a clinical-scientist and medical microbiologist at the BC Centre for Disease Control. Dr. Tang’s clinical and research interests are in the application of genomics and metagenomics to infectious diseases and public health as well as the development of novel molecular diagnostics. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and continues to be actively involved in medical education and research.