His father was a psychiatrist who took on a position at Queen's University at Kingston upon the family's immigration to Canada when Tu was two.
[2] He received his medical degree from the University of Western Ontario and completed his residency in internal medicine at the Toronto General Hospital.
[4] His doctoral dissertation, completed at Harvard University, was titled Quality of Cardiac Surgical Care in Ontario, Canada.
[5] Upon earning his Ph.D in 1996, Tu began working for Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre while teaching at the University of Toronto.
[6] He was later named a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Health Services Research at the University of Toronto and made a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.