Dr. Linda Hoang
Program Head, Bacteriology & Mycology, BCCDC Public Health Microbiology & Reference Laboratory and Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, UBC
Dr. Linda Hoang received her Master's and Medical Degrees from UBC and is FRCP(C) qualified in Medical Microbiology (UBC). She also obtained a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the London School of Hygiene and Epidemiology, UK. Dr. Hoang has been formally based at the BC Centre for Disease Control as the Program Head for Bacteriology & Mycology laboratory since 2006, but has been involved in BCCDC-led projects in Vietnam and BC starting in 1998. She enjoys teaching and is the BCCDC site-supervisor for the UBC Medical Microbiology Residency Training Program. Her clinical and academic interests include agents of bioterrorism and containment level-3 pathogens, healthcare-acquired infections and antibiotic resistant organisms, Cryptococcus gattii, and enteric bacterial pathogens related outbreaks in BC.
Skowronski DM, Janjua NZ, Sonfack Tsafack EP, Ouakki M, Hoang L, De Serres G. The Number Needed to Vaccinate to Prevent Infant Pertussis Hospitalization and Death Through Parent Cocoon Immunization. Clin Infect Dis. 2011 Dec 8. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 22156850
Wilmer A, Lloyd-Smith E, Romney M, Hoang L, Hull M, Champagne S. Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain USA300 Is Prevalent among Hospital-Onset Cases in an Urban Canadian Setting. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2011 Dec;32(12):1227-9.
Mina NV, Burdz T, Wiebe D, Rai JS, Rahim T, Shing F, Hoang L, Bernard K. Canada's first case of a multidrug-resistant Corynebacterium diphtheriae strain, isolated from a skin abscess. J Clin Microbiol. 2011 Nov;49(11):4003-5.
Martin I, Jayaraman G, Wong T, Liu G, Gilmour M; Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network. Trends in antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolated in Canada: 2000-2009. Sex Transm Dis. 2011 Oct;38(10):892-8.
Bartlett KH, Cheng PY, Duncan C, Galanis E, Hoang L, Kidd S, Lee MK, Lester S, Macdougall L, Mak S, Morshed M, Taylor M, Kronstad J. A Decade of Experience: Cryptococcus gattii in British Columbia. Mycopathologia. 2011 Sep 30. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 21960040