Dr. Maurice Choo

Dr. Maurice Choo
Department:
Experience: 25 years of experience
Hospital: Farrer Park Hospital, Singapore

About

About Dr. Maurice Choo Dr. Maurice Choo is a cardiologist having more than 25 years of expertise. Services provided by him includes heart failure, hypertension, lipid disorders, percutaneous coronary intervention and valvular heart disease. At the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, he finished his residency in cardiovascular diseases. He studied cardiac pathology and biomedical computing while working as a consultant in the heart department at the Brompton Hospital in London during his sabbatical year in 1995. He is a Fellow of the Glasgow, Edinburgh, and London Royal Colleges of Medicine. Prof. Choo founded the cardiac department at Singapore’s National University Hospital and served as its first chief and professor. He served as a professor of medicine, vice dean for research, director of the National University Medical Institute, and head of the master of medicine examination organisation committee in the school of postgraduate medical studies while employed at the National University of Singapore. He served as the Chairman of the National Neuroscience Institute Review Committee, a member of the Joint Committee for Specialist Training and the Specialist Accreditation Board of the Ministry of Health, as well as a parliamentarian on the Advisory Council on the Disabled and the Service Improvement Unit. Dr. Maurice Choo is fluent in English, Bahasa, Indonesia, Mandarin, Hokkien, Malay, and Teochew.

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

, Adjunct Professor, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (NTU and Imperial College)

Chief, National University Hospital, Singapore

Special Interest

Heart Failure
Hypertension
Lipid Disorders
Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
Valvular Heart Disease