Derrick Tam MD, PhD

Dr. Derrick Y. Tam is a fourth-year resident in cardiac surgery at the University of Toronto. His clinical interests include both minimally invasive valve surgery and transcatheter valve interventions. His academic interests include observational research design using large administrative datasets, health economics, and economic evaluation, artificial intelligence, and outcomes research.

He completed his PhD in 2020 in Health Services Research under the supervision of Dr. Stephen Fremes and his doctoral training was supported by a Canadian Institute for Health Research Fellowship Award.

He has published over 100 manuscripts, and three textbook chapters, and developed an iOS/Android App (http://rics.usquaresoft.com/) that is freely available for download to predict readmission after discharge from cardiac surgery.

Derrick’s doctoral research on trends and outcomes in aortic valve replacement in the era of transcatheter aortic valve replacement, utilizing large administrate databases from the United States (STS National Database) and those in Canada (Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences).

He has an interest in statistical methods and a strong focus on decision analysis modeling and cost-effectiveness modeling. He hopes his research will impact clinical decision-making at both the patient level and the policy level.