Kiang Hiong Tay

Biography

Dr Tay is currently the Head of the Radiology Department and Director of the Interventional Radiology Centre at Singapore General Hospital. He is Associate Professor at the Duke NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore as well as at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in National University of Singapore. Dr Tay is also the Academic Vice Chair for Clinical Services of the Singhealth Duke NUS Radiological Sciences Academic Clinical Program. Dr Tay did his medical and radiology training in Singapore. He was inducted as Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists in 1997, Fellow of the Academy of Medicine Singapore in 2003 and Fellow of the Society of Interventional Radiology in 2010. Under the Ministry of Health’s HMDP and National Medical Research Council’s Scholarships, Dr Tay did a 1 year clinical fellowship and a 6 month research fellowship in Interventional Radiology at the University of British Columbia in Canada in 2000/2001. Dr Tay’s subspecialty interest is in vascular interventions. His research interest is in re-stenosis. Dr Tay has more than 70 peer reviewed publications and 250 oral/poster presentations. He has delivered more than 200 invited lectures and has15 research grants. Dr Tay is Visiting Consultant to the KK Women and Children Hospital, National Heart Centre and Changi General Hospital. He is also Chairman of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology Subsection of Singapore Radiological Society, Vice President of the College of Radiologists Singapore and Secretary General of the Asia Pacific Society of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology.

Research Interest

Vascular & interventional radiology particularly genetic profiling of re-stenosis and treatment strategies to prevent re-stenosis, intravascular delivery of drugs/devices/genes for disease treatment