Nicolas Foin
Adjunct Associate Professor
Cardiovascular & Metabolic Disorders
Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School
Singapore
Biography
Dr. Nicolas Foin is Scientific Lead for Medtech research at the National Heart Centre Singapore and Adjunct Associate Professor at Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School. His research expertise focuses on treatment of coronary heart diseases using minimally invasive approach, as well as arterial diseases models and intravascular imaging. Regular speaker in international cardiac interventional congresses, he has to date published over 60 publications and book chapters in the field of cardiovascular interventions and intravascular OCT imaging. He has also collaborated with several large medical device companies and start-ups on new product developments and he authored 5 patents.
Research Interest
Models of Arterial Diseases and Interventions, Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging, Hemodynamic and Physiology in Cardiovascular Interventions,Optimisation and Development of New Tools for Interventional treatment of CVD ,Implantable Devices and Preclinical Regulatory Testing.
Publications
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Lee R, Foin N, Otsuka F, Wong P, Mari JM, Joner M, Girard MJ, Virmani R. Intravascular Assessment of Arterial Disease Using Compensated OCT in Comparison With Histology. J Am Coll Cardiol Img. 2015 Mar 12. S1936-878.
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Nijjer SS, Petraco R, van de Hoef TP, et al. Change in Coronary Blood Flow After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Relation to Baseline Lesion Physiology: Results of the JUSTIFY-PCI Study. Circulation, Cardiovasc Interv. 2015 Jun;8(6).
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Foin N, Lee R.,Mattesini A, Caiazzo G, Fabris E, Kilic D, Chan JN, Huang YY, Venkatraman S., Di Mario C, Wong P, Nef H. Bioabsorbable Vascular Scaffold Overexpansion: Insights from post-expansion experiments. EuroIntervention, 2015 Jul 8;11(3).
