Tan Huay Cheem MBBS, MMed, FACC, FAMS, FSCAI, FRCP

Dr. Tan Huay Cheem graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1987 and obtained his Master of Medicine in Internal Medicine and Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (United Kingdom) in 1992. He did his Interventional Cardiology fellowship at Duke University Medical Centre, North Carolina, USA in 1995. He received a Fellowship from the American College of Cardiology in 2001, a Fellowship from the Society of Coronary Angiography and Intervention in 2002, and a Fellowship from the Royal College of Physicians in 2004. He also received training in Vascular Ultrasonography at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, Australia; and Carotid Stenting at Taiwan National University Hospital.

He is presently a Senior Consultant Cardiologist at the National University Hospital and a Professor of Medicine at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He was the past President of the Singapore Cardiac Society and is presently chairman of the Singapore Heart Foundation. He was awarded the National Day Award for Public Service Administration in 2016 and the Ministry of Health, Singapore Distinguished Senior Clinician Award in 2017.

He is the Immediate Past President of the Asia Pacific Society of Interventional Cardiology (APSIC) and a founding member of the Asia Interventional Cardiovascular Therapeutics (AICT). He is also the Editor of AsiaIntervention, the official journal of APSIC.

Prof Tan is an active clinical researcher who has initiated several multicentre, multinational randomized clinical trials, and more than 220 publications in local and international peer-reviewed journals. He is regularly invited as a lecturer and faculty in many international cardiology meetings and is a Visiting Professor to 11 University-affiliated hospitals in China; and the University of Mandalay in Myanmar. Prof Tan is bilingual and has a personal writing column in LianHe ZaoBao, Singapore’s largest Chinese newspaper.