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Seminar on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Strategies in Singapore
The Singapore Heart Foundation, the Singapore Cardiac Society and the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, have recently released a white paper calling for greater efforts to prevent cardiovascular disease in Singapore. The paper proposes a multi-stakeholder three-pronged approach to buoy the success of Healthier SG to achieve good cardiovascular outcomes.
We invite you to join our luncheon and seminar to stay updated on the latest developments in the cardiovascular scene. CPD points will be awarded for registered attendees.
This seminar is only open to healthcare professionals.
| Time | Programme |
| 12.30-2pm | Luncheon |
| 2pm-2.15pm | Why this Consensus Paper? By Prof Yeo Khung Keong |
| 2.15pm-2.30pm | Relevance of Lifestyle in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention By Dr Low Lip Ping |
| 2.30pm-2.45pm | Update on Proper Management of CV Risk Factors By Prof Tan Huay Cheem |
| 2.45pm-3pm | Importance of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Patient Education By Asst Prof Yeo Tee Joo |
| 3pm-3.30pm | Panel Discussion/Q&A Session |
| 3.30pm-3.35pm | Closing |
This seminar is only open to healthcare professionals.
| Clinical Professor Yeo Khung Keong is the Chief Executive Officer and a Senior Consultant with the Department of Cardiology at the National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS). He is also the Academic Chair of the SingHealth Duke-NUS Cardiovascular Sciences Academic Clinical Programme, and was the Deputy Chief Executive Officer (Data Science and Innovation) at NHCS from January 2022 to May 2023. He leads the MitraClip programme at NHCS, and his subspecialty interests are in interventional cardiology, structural heart disease, vascular medicine and peripheral arterial interventions.
He is a Clinical Professor with Duke-NUS Medical School and is the Scientific Lead for the Clinical Sciences and Database Core at the National Heart Research Institute Singapore. In research work, he is the Principal Investigator of the SingCLOUD and SingHEART studies. Clin Prof Yeo is also the Deputy Group Chief Medical Informatics Officer (Research) for SingHealth. He previously served as the Programme Director of the SingHealth Cardiology Senior Residency Programme and also as the Academic Vice-Chair (Training and Education) for the SingHealth Duke-NUS Cardiovascular Academic Clinical Programme (April 2016 to March 2021). |
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Prof Yeo Khung Keong CEO and Senior Consultant Department of Cardiology National Heart Centre Singapore |
| Why this Consensus Paper? | |
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Dr Low Lip Ping Consultant Cardiologist Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre Visiting Consultant Singapore General Hospital and National Heart Centre Singapore |
| Relevance of Lifestyle in CVD Prevention | |
| Dr Low is a Consultant Cardiologist at the Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre, and a Visiting Consultant to the Singapore General Hospital and the National Heart Centre Singapore.
Dr Low is a founding member of the Singapore Heart Foundation (SHF), where he served as Chairman for 16 years until 2008. He is currently SHF’s Chairman Emeritus. He was also formerly the President of the Singapore Medical Association, Singapore Cardiac Society and Asian Pacific Society of Hypertension. He was also the founding President of the Singapore Hypertension Society, Asia Pacific Heart Network and a continental representative to the Executive Board of the World Heart Federation. Dr Low has served on numerous governmental and public committees and medical advisory boards. He has also participated in the organisation of and spoken at many local and international medical meetings. Additionally, he has authored or co-authored more than 90 scientific papers and has been on the editorial board of several scientific journals. He was conferred the Public Service Star (BBM) in the National Day Awards 2001 by the President of Singapore. |
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Prof Tan Huay Cheem Senior Consultant Cardiologist National University Heart Centre Singapore |
| Update on Proper Management of CV Risk Factors | |
| Prof Tan Huay Cheem is presently a Senior Consultant Cardiologist at the National University Hospital and Professor of Medicine with Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Prof Tan is an active clinical researcher who has initiated several multicentre, multinational randomised clinical trials, and has more than 220 publications in local and international peer-reviewed journals and books. He is regularly invited as lecturer and faculty in many international cardiology meetings and is a Visiting Professor to 11 University-affiliated hospitals in China; and University of Mandalay in Myanmar.
Prof Tan is the Chairman of the Singapore Heart Foundation. He was the President of the Asia Pacific Society of Interventional Cardiology (APSIC) and the Singapore Cardiac Society, and a founding member of the Asia Interventional Cardiovascular Therapeutics (AICT), an international interventional cardiology meeting. He is also an editor of AsiaIntervention, the official journal of APSIC. He was awarded the National Medical Excellence Award in 2011, National Day Award for Public Service Administration in 2016 and Ministry of Health, Singapore Distinguished Senior Clinician Award 2017. |
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Asst Prof Yeo Tee Joo Senior Consultant National University Heart Centre Singapore |
| Importance of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Patient Education | |
| Assistant Professor Yeo Tee Joo is a Senior Consultant with the Department of Cardiology at the National University Heart Centre, Singapore and heads the Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation unit.
He trained in Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute from 2014 to 2015, and Sports Cardiology at St George’s University of London from 2015 to 2016. Asst Prof Yeo is a World Health Organization Ischaemic Heart Disease Rehabilitation 2030 Development Group Member, the Singapore representative for the International Council for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation and a Board Member at the Singapore Heart Foundation. |
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