Dr Chuang Hsuan-hung

Biography

 ·         Dr Chuang graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree from the National University of Singapore in 1994. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the Singapore General Hospital, and subsequently obtained the Master of Medicine in internal medicine from the National University of Singapore in 2000. In the same year, he was admitted as Member to both the Royal College of Physicians of United Kingdom and London. ·         Following his fellowship training in cardiology at the National Heart Centre of Singapore, Dr Chuang was awarded scholarships from the Ministry of Health of Singapore and the National Heart Centre to the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio, the leading heart centre in the United States. There, he further subspecialised in heart failure and heart transplant intensive care, genetic heart diseases and sudden cardiac death. ·         Dr Tan also pursued training in advanced cardiovascular imaging, during which he was involved in the research and development of numerous state-of-art cardiac imaging techniques and their applications in interventional cardiology and stem cell therapy. In 2006, he spent a sabbatical period as a fellow at the Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, USA for training in cardiac and peripheral computed tomography (CT). ·         Prior to his appointment as a consultant cardiologist and intensivist at Gleneagles Hospital and Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Dr Chuang was a consultant cardiologist at the National Heart Centre of Singapore and clinical lecturer at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. ·         Dr Chuang was a lecturer with the American College of Sports Medicine. He was the organising chairman of the Singapore Cardiac Society Annual Scientific Meeting in 2008. He is a committee member of the Singapore Cardiac Society, the Chapter of Cardiologists and the Academy of Medicine of Singapore. ·         As recognition for his numerous publications and contributions towards the advancement of cardiovascular care and research, Dr Chuang was admitted as Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians, Fellow of the American Heart Association, Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography, and Fellow of the Academy of Medicine of Singapore. ·         Dr Chuang is an active member of numerous international societies, including the Council on Clinical Cardiology and the Council on Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention, and the Interdisciplinary Working Group on Functional Genomics and Translational Biology in the American Heart Association.

Research Interest

  Cardiology