Dr. Charles Chan

Dr. Charles Chan
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Experience: 35 years of experience
Hospital: Farrer Park Hospital, Singapore

About

About Dr. Charles Chan Dr. Charles Chan is a cardiologist having more than 35 years of expertise. Services provided by him includes coronary interventions, peripheral interventions including carotid stenting and aortic and mitral balloon valvuloplasty. He got the Leonard Abramson Gold Medal from the Royal College of Surgeons Medical School in the Final MB and the Desmond Lyons Gold Medal in Medicine from St Laurence Hospital after earning his Honours Degree from the National University of Ireland in 1982. (1982).  After receiving his MRCP (UK) in 1985, he began his cardiology training at the University Hospital Charles Nicolle in Rouen, the Green Lane Hospital in New Zealand, and Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in Scotland (France). He was admitted as a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology in 1999 and the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) in 1996. In Singapore, he performed various “first procedures,” such as rotablator atherectomy, aortic valvuloplasty, and transradial coronary treatments. Prior to entering private practise, Dr. Chan taught medicine as a lecturer at the National University of Singapore (2001) and the University of Aberdeen (1984–1986). He previously served as the National Heart Centre of Singapore’s Senior Consultant Cardiologist and Director of Interventional Cardiology. He has authored multiple book chapters and more than 100 peer-reviewed articles that have been published in international publications. Dr. Charles Chan is fluent in English, French, and Mandarin.

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

Associate Professor, National University of Singapore

, Lecturer, University of Aberdeen

Special Interest

Heart Arrhythmia
Heart Attack / Myocardial Infarction
Heart Failure
Heart Murmur
Coronary Angioplasty And Stents
Open Heart Surgery (Coronary Bypass)