Biography

Dr. Gary Tse received his Bachelor of Arts with Honours (B.A.) from the University of Cambridge (2008), Master of Arts (M.A.) from the University of Cambridge (2012), Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S.) from Imperial College London (2014), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from the University of Cambridge (2015), Master in Public Health (M.P.H.) from the University of Manchester (2017) and Master of Health Management (M.H.M.) from the University of New South Wales (2019). He returned to China as an Assistant Professor at The University of Hong Kong's School of Biomedical Sciences. He served as Principal Investigator at the Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, where he established the Laboratory of Cardiovascular Physiology. He was subsequently appointed to The Distinguished Professorship in Cardiology by the Tianjin Institute of Cardiology in 2019. He holds a Guest Professorship in Cardiovascular Medicine at The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University and an Honorary Professorship at the Xiamen Cardiovascular Hospital of Xiamen University. He undertook a six-month advanced fellowship training at the Department of Cardiac Electrophysiology of the Xiamen Cardiovascular Hospital, where he focused on catheter ablation of atrial and supraventricular arrhythmias.

Since then, he has returned to Tianjin Medical University, where he holds a full professorial appointment, directing cardiovascular research as Principal Investigator at its Key Laboratory. Gary has provided input on strategic planning at the institutional level under the direction of senior management. Through successfully leading and managing international studies with collaborative efforts, his team continues to deliver sustained and impactful research output. He has also developed experience in project and personnel management. In particular, his team's ethos is the bilateral nature of mentorship, where each team member plays an important role and is encouraged to develop his or her full potential.

Gary received his Membership of the Faculty of Public Health (UK), and has been elected a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (2016), American College of Cardiology (2017), Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (2019), Heart Rhythm Society (2018), Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (Fellowship qua Physician) (2017), Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (2018), Royal College of Physicians of London (2019), Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (2019) and Faculty of Public Health (UK) (2019).

Gary's work has been published in the Lancet, European Heart Journal, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging, International Journal of Cardiology, European Journal of Clinical Investigation, ESC Heart Failure, Stroke, Heart, Journal of the American Heart Association, Heart Rhythm, Europace, Journal of Arrhythmia and JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology. Gary's work has been recognized by conferences organized by learned societies, including the Gordon Research Conferences, European Cardiac Arrhythmia Society, Heart Rhythm Society and Europace. He is a regular academic reviewer for > 40 international journals in cardiology, cardiac electrophysiology, cardiovascular biology and epidemiology. He has attracted approximately $11 RMB million research-related funding as a principal applicant and co-applicant. In recognition of contributions to the understanding of cardiac electrophysiology, he was recently awarded the ECG Bayés Award by the International Congress of Electrocardiology for the best research output by a young investigator. For excellence in teaching and medical education, he was voted by medical students for the Medical Clerkship Exemplary Teaching Award and later elected to the Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Educators.