Jonathon A. Leipsic, MD

Associate Professor
Department of Radiology
UBC
Address: 

St. Paul's Hospital
Radiology
1081 Burrard St.
Vancouver, BC V6Z1Y6

Phone Number: 
(604) 806-8026

Dr. Jonathon Leipsic is the Chairman of the Department of Radiology for Providence Health Care and the Vice Chairman of Research for the UBC Department of Radiology. He is an Associate Professor of Radiology and Cardiology with the University of British Columbia. Dr. Leipsic is also a Canada Research Chair in Advanced Cardiopulmonary Imaging. He recently has taken on the role of Medical Imaging Regional Department Head of Vancouver Coastal Health and Providence Healthcare. Dr. Leipsic has over 325 peer reviewed manuscripts in press or in print, over 275 scientific abstracts, and editor of 2 textbooks. He speaks internationally on a number of cardiopulmonary imaging topics with over 150 invited lectures in the last 4 years. He is the Past President of the Society of Cardiovascular CT, the largest international society dedicated to Cardiac CT.

Education and Training

  • BSc, Microbiology and Chemistry, University of Manitoba
  • MD, University of Manitoba
  • Fellow, Diagnostic Radiology, Royal College of Physicians of Canada
  • Fellow, Society of Cardiovascular CT

Selected Publications

Toggweiler S, Gurvitch R, Leipsic J, Wood DA, Wilson AB, Binder RK, et al.. Percutaneous Aortic Valve Replacement: Vascular Outcomes With a Fully Percutaneous Procedure. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2012 ;59(2).
Leipsic J, Gurvitch R, LaBounty TM, Min JK, Wood D, Johnson M, et al.. Multidetector Computed Tomography in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation. JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging. 2011 ;4(4).
Leipsic J, Nguyen G, Brown J, Sin D, Mayo JR. A Prospective Evaluation of Dose Reduction and Image Quality in Chest CT Using Adaptive Statistical Iterative Reconstruction. American Jouranl of Roentgenology. 2010 ;195(5).
Achenbach S, Delgado V, Hausleiter J, Schoenhagen P, Min JK, Leipsic J. SCCT expert consensus document on computed tomography imaging before transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)/transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. 2012 ;6(6).
Wilson AB, Webb JG, LaBounty TM, Achenbach S, Moss R, Wheeler M, et al.. 3-Dimensional Aortic Annular Assessment by Multidetector Computed Tomography Predicts Moderate or Severe Paravalvular Regurgitation After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: A Multicenter Retrospective Analysis. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2012 ;59(14).
Nørgaard BL, Leipsic J, Gaur S, Seneviratne S, Ko BS, Ito H, et al.. Diagnostic Performance of Noninvasive Fractional Flow Reserve Derived From Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography in Suspected Coronary Artery Disease: The NXT Trial (Analysis of Coronary Blood Flow Using CT Angiography: Next Steps). Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2014 ;63(12).
Leipsic J, LaBounty TM, Heilbron B, Min JK, Mancini GBJ, Lin FY, et al.. Adaptive Statistical Iterative Reconstruction: Assessment of Image Noise and Image Quality in Coronary CT Angiography. American Journal of Roentgenology. 2010 ;195(3).
Leipsic J, LaBounty TM, Heilbron B, Min JK, Mancini GBJ, Lin FY, et al.. Estimated Radiation Dose Reduction Using Adaptive Statistical Iterative Reconstruction in Coronary CT Angiography: The ERASIR Study. American Journal of Roentgenology. 2010 ;195(3).
Webb JG, Wood DA, Ye J, Gurvitch R, Masson J-B, Rodés-Cabau J, et al.. Transcatheter Valve-in-Valve Implantation for Failed Bioprosthetic Heart Valves. Circulation. 2010 ;121(16).
Min JK, Leipsic J, Pencina MJ, Berman DS, Koo B-W, van Mieghem C, et al.. Diagnostic Accuracy of Fractional Flow Reserve From Anatomic CT Angiography. JAMA. 2012 ;308(12).
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