Dear friends and colleagues,
After 16 years of service in the public healthcare sector, I have commenced private practice at The Heart Specialist Clinic in Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre, Singapore. Besides holding a concurrent Visiting Consultant post at the following restructured tertiary hospitals: Tan Tock Seng Hospital and Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, I am a fully accredited consultant intervent
ional cardiologist, with admitting privileges, at the following private hospitals: Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, Gleneagles Hospital, Parkway East Hospital, Mount Alvernia Hospital and Farrer Park Hospital. After completing my Basic Specialist Training (BST) in Internal Medicine at the Singapore General Hospital and Advanced Specialist Training (AST) in Cardiology at the National Heart Centre Singapore, I attained membership with The Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom (MRCP UK). Today, I am a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore (FAMS Cardiology), a Fellow of The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (FRCP Edin), a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC) and a Fellow of the Asian Pacific Society of Interventional Cardiology (FAPSIC). I am also an American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Certified Clinical Exercise Specialist. Whilst in institution practice, I have been active in clinical research and have been Principal Investigator of a number of multinational interventional cardiology registries and randomized control trials (DELIVER study and DEB-Only Small Vessel Disease study, SIGNIFY study, REDUCE study, RESPECT-HF trial), and have also been Co-Investigator in several landmark international studies like the PLATO and CURRENT/OASIS 7, IMPROVE-IT and LEADERS FREE trials. I have numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals in the field of Interventional Cardiology, and have been invited as faculty to lecture in regional and international Cardiology conferences like AsiaPCR, EuroPCR, TCTAP, HKSTENT-CICF, ECC, TOPIC, CCT. Besides clinical research, I have been involved in the teaching and mentoring of medical students, residents, senior residents and nurse clinician trainees. I am a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS and a Core Clinical Faculty Member of the NHG Cardiology Senior Residency Program and a Clinical Teacher at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. I was conferred the Ministry of Health’s Healthcare Manpower Development Plan (HMDP) scholarship to pursue fellowship training in Interventional Cardiology, at the Alfred Heart Centre and Epworth Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. In addition to percutaneous coronary interventions, I am trained to perform peripheral endovascular interventions like lower limb angioplasty and renal artery stenting and renal nerve denervation, as well as in structural heart interventions like transcatheter aortic valve replacements (TAVR), percutaneous patent foramen ovale (PFO) closures, percutaneous left atrial appendage (LAA) closures, balloon aortic and mitral valvuloplasties. I have a particular interest in complex coronary interventions, like bifurcation stenting and chronic total occlusions (CTO) interventions. At The Heart Specialist Clinic, we provide comprehensive specialist care in heart health matters. The full suite of subspecialty interests and facilities include:
General cardiology services
• General cardiac screening
• INR monitoring
• ECG
• Exercise stress test
• Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
Echocardiography
• Echocardiography – 2D, 3D and cardiac dyssnchrony studies
• Transeophageal echocardiography
• Dobutamine stress echocardiography
Arrhythmia and Cardiac Electrophysiology
• Ambulatory Holter ECG Monitoring
• Signal average ECG testing
• Heart rate variability, Heart rate turbulence and QT analysis
• Event ECG recorders and monitoring
• Pacemaker interrogation and programming
• ICD interrogation and programming
• Cardiac resynchronisation interrogation and programming
• Cardiac Electrophysiological studies
• Catheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmia
• Device implantation (pacemakers, ICT, CRT)
• Lead and device extraction
Interventional Cardiology
• Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (“stenting”)
• Structural heart interventions
• Peripheral endovascular interventions
• Renal Denervation
I look forward to your continued support and to partner you in providing the best possible specialist care in cardiovascular medicine to your patients. Tan
FRCP (Edin), FESC, FSCAI, FAPSIC, MBBS (Singapore), MMed (Internal Medicine), MRCP (UK), ACSM (Clinical Exercise Specialist), FAMS (Cardiology)
Consultant Interventional Cardiologist
The Heart Specialist Clinic
