Dr CHUA Yeow Leng

MBBS, MMED (Surgery), FRCS (Edinburgh), FRCS (Glasgow), FMGEMS, FAMS
Head and Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon
National Heart Centre (NHC), Singapore

Dr Chua Yeow Leng is the Head and Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at the National Heart Centre (NHC). Aside from coronary artery bypass graft surgeries, Dr Chua also has extensive experience in repairing deranged heart valves and performing radiofrequency ablation of atrial fibrillation surgeries.
Since 2000, Dr Chua has been a part-time clinical lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine at National University of Singapore. Besides being regularly invited to deliver lectures at renowned scientific meetings and hospitals, he has also been invited to give live cardiac surgical demonstrations for hospitals in Hong Kong, Bangkok, China and Malaysia.

Dr Chua has written for numerous publications and is also actively involved in clinical trials and research. Previous completed major projects include endothelium research and intraoperative EMG studies which was done at Mayo Clinic in 1993. Some of his on-going research projects include coming up with a surgical database programme for cardiac and thoracic surgery, looking at the effect of glyceryl trinitrate and sodium nitroprusside on left internal mammary coronary artery bypass and research on DNA damage and repair system in human vascular smooth muscle cells.

National Heart Center, Singapore being the national referral centre in Singapore, operates about 1500 cardiac surgeries yearly. Besides coronary artery bypass graft surgeries, Dr Chua also has extensive experience in repairing deranged heart valves and performing radiofrequency ablation of atrial fibrillation surgeries.

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