Billings Clinic Internal Medicine Residency - Christina Tieu, MD

Christina Tieu, MD

Christina Tieu, MD, is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine and is joining the program as Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency here at Billings Clinic. She is a practicing geriatrician and specializes in helping elderly patients navigate the challenges of multi-morbidity, care transitions and geriatric syndromes.

Dr. Tieu was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and moved to Washington state where she attended college at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA. She completed her undergraduate medical education at the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine in Rochester, MN in 2013. She went on to complete an Internal Medicine residency at the Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education from in 2016 and stayed to complete a Geriatric Medicine fellowship from 2016 to 2017. Upon graduating from her fellowship in 2017, she became an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and a practicing clinical geriatrician. In 2024, Dr. Tieu moved to Montana with the goal of practicing and teaching geriatric medicine in the Billings community.

Throughout Dr. Tieu’s career she has driven numerous educational initiatives across the spectrum of medical training. She has served as Program Director of the Geriatric Medicine Fellowship at University of Virginia as well as the Ambulatory Clerkship Director for the University of Virginia School of Medicine.  She is passionate about developing geriatric curricula to educate all medical trainees on patient-centered care of the elderly.

Honors for Dr. Tieu include:

  • University of Virginia School of Medicine
    Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (2024)
  • University of Virginia Health System
    Department of Medicine Education award (2020)
  • University of Virginia Health System
    Clinician with Outstanding Patient Experience
    Outpatient clinics
    99th percentile rank based on Press-Ganey surveys (2020)
  • OurHealth Charlottesville and Shenandoah Valley magazine
    5th Annual Best Bedside Manner award
    3rd place in Geriatric Medicine (2019)

Papers Published or in Press:

  1. Mendoza De La Garza M, Tieu C, Schroeder D, Lowe K, Tung E. Evaluation of the Impact of a senior mentor program on medical students’ geriatric knowledge and attitudes toward older adults. Gerontol Geriatr Educ. 2018 Jul-Sep;39(3):316-325. PMID: 29912653
  2. Tieu C, Chaudhry R, Schroeder DR, Bock FA, Hanson GJ, Tung EE. Utilization of Patient Electronic Messaging to Promote Advance Care Planning in the Primary Care Setting. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2016 May 17. PMID: 27188759
  3. Tieu C, Moreira RK, Song LM, Majumder S, Papadakis KA, Hogan MC. A case report of sevelamer-associated recto-sigmoid ulcers. BMC Gastroenterol. 2016 Feb 24;16:20. PMID:26911806
  4. O’Neill, BP; Decker, PA; Tieu, C; Cerhan, JR. The changing incidence of primary central nervous system lymphoma is driven primarily by the changing incidence in young and middle-aged men and differs from time trends in systemic diffuse large B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Am J Hematol. 2013 Dec;88(12):997-1000. Cited in PubMed; PMID: 23873804
  5. Bender AM, Collier LS, Rodriguez FJ, Tieu C, Larson JD, Halder C, Mahlum E, Kollmeyer TM, Akagi K, Sarkar G, Largaespada DA, Jenkins RB. Sleeping beauty-mediated somatic mutagenesis implicates CSF1 in the formation of high-grade astrocytomas. Cancer Research.2010 May; 70(9): 3557-65. Cited in PubMed; PMID: 20388773.
  6. Collier LS, Adams DJ, Hackett CS, Bendzick LE, Akagi K, Davies MN, Diers MD, Rodriguez FJ, Bender AM, Tieu C, Matise I, Dupuy AJ, Copeland NG, Jenkins NA, Hodgson JG, Weiss WA, Jenkins RB, Largaespada DA.. Wholebody sleeping beauty mutagenesis can cause penetrant leukemia/lymphoma and rare high-grade glioma without associated embryonic lethality. Cancer Research.2009 Nov; 69(21): 8429-37. Cited in PubMed; PMID: 19843846.