Clin. Asst. Prof. Chow Weien

Clin. Asst. Prof. Chow Weien
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Experience: 20 years of experience
Hospital: Changi General Hospital, Singapore

About

About Clin. Asst. Prof. Chow Weien Clin. Asst. Prof. Chow Weien has over 2 decades of experience as an Interventional cardiologist. He has received numerous honours for his work in multi-modality cardiac imaging, Abnormal Heart Rhythm / Arrhythmia, Coronary Artery Disease/Coronary Heart Disease, Decompressive Craniectomy, Heart Attack, Heart Failure, and Valvular Heart Disease. He is a member of the Singapore Medical Council, the Singapore Medical Association, the Singapore Cardiac Society Chapter of Echocardiography and the Academy of Medicine, Singapore. Clin. Asst. Prof. Chow Weien has completed his MBBS (2002) from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He has a fellowship in MRCP (UK, 2008). He obtained his M.Med (Internal Medicine, 2008) from the University of Singapore. He did his training in nuclear cardiology at Cedars Sinai Medical Center as well as cardiac CT angiography at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in USA.  He is the author of various papers and publications. Clin. Asst. Prof. Chow Weien is well-versed in English and Malay.

List of Treatments

  • Arrhythmia Treatment with Ablation and Pacemakers
  • Coronary Artery Surgery
  • Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) Treatment
  • heart disease
  • Balloon Septostomy
  • Pulmonary and Mitral
  • Fetal Echocardiogram
  • Coronary Angiogram
  • PTCA-Percutaneous Transluminal
  • Coronary Angioplasty
  • Aortic Stent Grafting
  • EPS-Electrophysiological
  • Radiofrequency Ablation
  • PPI-Permanent Pacemaker Implant – Single Chamber
  • Biventricular Pacing
  • AICD
  • PTMC – Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Commissurotomy
  • Heart Surgery
  • CRT – D (MRI Compatible)
  • CRT – D (MRI Non-Compatible)
  • CRT – P
  • Transarterial Radioembolization – TARE
  • Cardiac catheterization

Work Experience

Consultant, Singapore Armed Forces (SAF)

Visiting Consultant, Singapore General Hospital

Chairman, Centre of Infectious Disease and Epidemiology Research Board, NUS

Special Interest

Cardiology, Echocardiography and Nuclear Cardiology.