Dr. Stephen Fort reviews medical content for
Healthwise, a nonprofit organization with a mission to help people make better
health decisions. Dr. Fort is an interventional cardiologist at the Kelowna General Hospital in British Columbia, Canada, and former Associate Professor and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories at Dalhousie University and Queen
Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is a frequent
lecturer on cardiovascular topics.
Education and Training
MB, ChB: University of Leeds, Leeds, England,
1984
Medical and Surgical House Officer: St. James's University
Hospital, Leeds, England, 1984–1985
Senior House Officer in General
Medicine: Chapel Allerton Hospital, Leeds, England,
1985–1986
Senior House Officer in Chest Medicine and Haematology:
Killingbeck Hospital, Leeds, England, 1986
Registrar in
Endocrinology and Senior House Officer in Cardiology: University Hospital,
Cardiff, Wales, 1987
Registrar in Nephrology: Cardiff Royal
Infirmary, Cardiff, Wales, 1987–1988
Registrar in
General/Respiratory Medicine and Geriatric/General Medicine: University
Hospital, Cardiff, Wales, 1988–1989
Registrar in Cardiology and
Gastroenterology: University Hospital, Cardiff, Wales, 1989
Registrar in Cardiology: Royal London Hospital, London,
England, 1991–1993
MD: University of Leeds, Leeds, England,
1993
Senior Registrar in Cardiology: Western General Hospital and
Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1993–1995
Senior Fellow in
Interventional Cardiology: Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON,
1995–1996
Senior Registrar in Cardiology: Western General Hospital
and Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1996–1998
Senior Clinical
Fellow in Cardiology: Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Science Centre and
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, 1998–2000
Certifications
Cardiology,
Royal College of
Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
Internal Medicine, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
Royal College of Physicians (UK)
Academic Appointments
Associate Professor, Dalhousie University,
Halifax, NS, 2003–2009
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, 2000–2003
Director,
Intravascular Ultrasound Core Laboratory, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON,
2000–2003
Financial Disclosure
Dr. Fort has a preceptorship agreement with the Boston Scientific Corporation.
