Jack Ven Tu (1 March 1965 – 30 May 2018) was a Taiwanese-Canadian cardiologist.

Early life and career

Tu was born in

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to Jun-bi and Beth. His father was a

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who took on a position at

Queen's University at Kingston Queen's University at Kingston, commonly known as Queen's University or simply Queen's, is a public university, public research university in Kingston, Ontario, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Queen's holds more than of land throughout Ontario and ...

upon the family's immigration to Canada when Tu was two. He showed an early interest in the medical sciences and competed in regional and national science fairs as a student. Tu finished high school in four years instead of five, was accepted to medical school after just one year of undergraduate studies and graduated as the youngest of his medical school class in 1988 at the age of 23. He received his medical degree from the

University of Western Ontario The University of Western Ontario (UWO; branded as Western University) is a Public university, public research university in London, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land, surrounded by residential neighbourhoods and the Thame ...

and completed his

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at the

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. He then earned a

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(MSc) from the

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and pursued doctoral studies at

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. His doctoral dissertation, completed at

, was titled ''Quality of Cardiac Surgical Care in Ontario, Canada''. Upon earning his Ph.D. in 1996, Tu began working for

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while teaching at the University of Toronto. He was later named a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Health Services Research at the

and made a fellow of the

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Death

Tu died at the age of 53 on 30 May 2018.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tu, Jack 1965 births 2018 deaths Taiwanese emigrants to Canada Canadian cardiologists University of Western Ontario alumni University of Toronto alumni Academic staff of the University of Toronto Harvard University alumni Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Canada Research Chairs Scientists from Taipei