Dr. Bernard Kwok

Dr. Bernard Kwok
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Experience: 32 years of experience
Hospital: Farrer Park Hospital, Singapore

About

About Dr. Bernard Kwok Dr. Bernard Kwok is a cardiologist having more than 32 years of expertise. Services provided by him includes Cardiac Stress Testing, Exercise Testing and Exercise Prescription, Heart Health Screening, Echocardiography and CT Coronary Angiography and Calcium Scoring. Dr. Bernard Kwok graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1990 with a basic medical degree. His Master of Medicine from NUS gave him more training in internal medicine. After earning a diploma from the Royal College in Edinburgh, Scotland in the U.K., he was admitted as a Member of the Royal College of Physicians (U.K.). He completed a fellowship in Heart Failure & Heart Transplantation at Stanford University School of Medicine in the United States after completing his cardiology residency at the National University Hospital in Singapore. He is the first licenced transplant cardiologist in Singapore. At the National Heart Centre of Singapore, Dr. Kwok launched the nation’s first multidisciplinary heart failure programme.  The Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at NUS employs Dr. Kwok as a Clinical Senior Lecturer. He served as the President of the Singapore Cardiac Society and as the former Governor of the American College of Cardiology’s Singapore Chapter. He was the Heart Failure Society’s first President (Singapore). Dr. Bernard Kwok is fluent in English, Mandarin, and Malay.

List of Treatments

  • Arrhythmia Treatment with Ablation and Pacemakers
  • Coronary Artery Surgery
  • Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) Treatment
  • Cardiac OPD Procedures
  • ECG-Treadmill Test TMT
  • 24 Hour Holter Monitoring
  • Ambulatory BP Monitoring (ABPM)
  • Echocardiography with Color Doppler
  • Stress Echocardiographyn
  • Myocardial Perfusion Imaging (MPI) Test
  • Thallium Test – Nuclear Stress Test
  • 64 Slice CT Angiography
  • PET Scan
  • Off Pump beating CABG LV restoration
  • surgery
  • Valve Repair Replacement
  • Atrial Fibrillation Surgery
  • Ross Procedure
  • Cardiac Tumour Treatment
  • Aortic Dissection Repair Surgery
  • Minimal access surgeries for valves
  • ASD (Atrial Septal Defect) Closure
  • Neonatal and Infant cardiac surgeries
  • Complex congenital heart surgeriesg
  • TAPVC – Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection Repair Arterial Switch
  • Single Ventricle Defects Surgery
  • ECMO Support
  • heart disease
  • Device Closure- ASD VSD
  • Balloon Septostomy
  • Balloon Valvuloplasty – Aortic
  • Pulmonary and Mitral
  • Fetal Echocardiogram
  • Coronary Angiogram
  • Peripheral 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 Bypass Surgery (CABG)
  • Angiography
  • Aortic Valve Replacement
  • Mitral Valve Replacement
  • VSD Closure (Adult) Surgery
  • Heart Double Valve Replacement
  • PPI-Permanent Pacemaker Implant – Double Chamber
  • CRT- D Implant (Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy)
  • PDA Device Closure
  • Single Bypass and Valve Replacement
  • Valve Replacement
  • Congenital Heart Disorder CHD
  • Heart Bypass – Minimally Invasive CABG
  • Heart Implants
  • Heart Surgery
  • Rotational Atherectomy
  • Redo CABG
  • Angioplasty – 1 Stent
  • Angioplasty – 2 Stent
  • Aortic Valve replacement – Mechanical Valve
  • Aortic Valve replacement – Tissue Valve
  • Mitral Valve replacement – Mechanical Valve
  • Mitral Valve replacement – Tissue Valve
  • Aortic Valve Repair
  • Mitral Valve Repair
  • VP Shunting – Programmable Device
  • AV Canal repair
  • Bentall procedure
  • PDA Ligation
  • CRT – D (MRI Compatible)
  • CRT – D (MRI Non-Compatible)
  • CRT – P
  • Transarterial Radioembolization – TARE
  • ICD Implantation
  • Cardiac catheterization
  • Balloon mitral valvotomy
  • Truncus Arterious Repair
  • Cardiac ablation
  • TAVI
  • LVAD

Work Experience

Senior Consultant, Farrer Park Hospital, Singapore

, Clinical Senior Lecturer, NUS’ Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine

, Governor, American College of Cardiology

Visiting Consultant, National Heart Centre Singapore

Special Interest

Heart Arrhythmia
Heart Attack / Myocardial Infarction
Heart Failure
Heart Murmur
Heart Palpitation
Heart Valve Disease