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Sriram ShankarFRCS

Bedah jantung & dada · Singapore

Dr Sriram Shankar is a cardiothoracic surgeon practising at Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore. His interests are in adult cardiothoracic surgery, adult vascular surgery, paediatric cardiothoracic surgery and paediatric vascular surgery. He trained in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Middlesex Hospital in London and subsequently worked at the Brompton Hospital in London, Harefield Hospital in Uxbridge and the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. While he runs his practices at Gleneagles and Mount Elizabeth Hospitals, Dr Shankar is also a Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at National Heart Centre. Dr Shankar was the recipient of Dr Rama Rao Gold Medal Anatomy in 1978, First Prize of Honor in Microbiology in 1980 and Service Quality Bronze in 2001. Dr Shankar moved to Singapore in September 1990 but returned to England in 1995 to further specialise. During this stint, he spent a year with Dr William J Brawn FRCS and Dr B Sethia, FRCS at the Children’s Hospital in Birmingham. Dr Shankar has since helped establish the Paediatric Cardiothoracic service at the KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, where he was the Head of services till March 2009. Dr Shankar has had extensive experience with Adult Cardiac Surgery, having performed over 1000 off-pump procedures for patients with Coronary Artery Disease. He is trained to undertake Valve restorative operations for both Children & Adults, with vast experience in both. He has had excellent results with patients with aortic disease, especially aneurysm surgery and surgery for acute type 1 aortic dissection. Dr Shankar has also written and published several articles.

Lim Yeong Phang

Bedah jantung & dada · Singapore

Dr Lim Yeong Phang adalah dokter spesialis bedah kardiotoraks di Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, Singapura. Beliau berpengalaman dalam melakukan minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass (MIDCAB) melalui dinding dada tanpa memotong tulang, serta hybrid coronary revascularisation, yaitu kombinasi operasi bypass dan pemasangan stent melalui prosedur perkutaneus bersama dokter spesialis kardiologi intervensi. Dr Lim sebelumnya merupakan medical officer di Republic of Singapore Air Force. Beliau kemudian memilih bidang bedah dan bergabung dengan Departemen Bedah Kardiotoraks di Singapore General Hospital pada tahun 1998. Pada tahun 2005, beliau menerima beasiswa Health Manpower Development Plan (HMDP) untuk menjalani pelatihan bedah jantung bawaan di Cleveland Clinic, Amerika Serikat. Setelah kembali ke Singapura pada tahun 2006, beliau diangkat sebagai konsultan di National Heart Centre (NHC) dan kemudian sebagai konsultan senior. Beliau juga pernah ditunjuk sebagai visiting consultant di KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital. Pada tahun 2007, Dr Lim menjalani pelatihan selama tiga bulan di Wuhan Asia Heart Hospital, Tiongkok, melalui SingHealth Talent Development Scheme. Pada tahun 2008, melalui hibah dari Ministry of Health, Singapore, Dr Lim bersama rekan-rekannya mendirikan National Cardiovascular Homograft Bank di NHC dan menjabat sebagai medical director. Pada tahun 2012, beliau ditunjuk sebagai Director of Cardiac Operating Theatre di NHC. Dr Lim turut mendorong penggunaan Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) di Singapura dan pernah menjabat sebagai co-director program ECMO di NHC. Beliau menyelenggarakan simposium ECMO sebagai bagian dari SGH Annual Scientific Meeting ke-17, serta mengadakan pelatihan bagi dokter spesialis kedokteran intensif, penyakit paru, dan kardiologi selama pandemi H5N1 pada tahun 2009. Beliau merupakan anggota International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery, Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Asia, Singapore Cardiac Society, serta Chapter of Cardiothoracic Surgeons, Academy of Medicine, Singapore. Dr Lim pernah menjabat sebagai Ketua NHC Health Lifestyle Committee. Sejak tahun 2009, Dr Lim juga menjabat sebagai adjunct assistant professor di fakultas pengajar Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School dan mengajar di Nanyang Polytechnic untuk program Advanced Diploma Nursing.

Su Jang Wen

Bedah jantung & dada · Singapore

Dr Su Jang Wen is a cardiothoracic surgeon practising at Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore. He has a special interest in minimally invasive surgery such as video assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) and has successfully applied such techniques to coronary artery bypass surgery, valvular surgery (aortic, mitral and tricuspid), atrial septal defect closure, arrhythmia surgery, ventricular aneurysm repair and acute ventricular septal rupture. He has a great interest in treating critically ill cardiac and thoracic surgical patients, and is active in membrane oxygenator (ECMO) services, performing 25 – 30 ECMO procedures per year across multiple private hospitals. Dr Su is one of the cardiothoracic surgeons accredited to perform both heart and lung surgery. Since 2007, Dr Su has carried out more than 5,000 heart, lung and oesophageal surgeries, and he is currently performing more than 350 surgeries per year. Dr Su graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Melbourne, Australia in 1998. Subsequently, he obtained his membership of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh) in 2002 and his Master of Medicine from the National University of Singapore in 2003. In 2006, he became a Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons (Cardiothoracic Surgery, Edinburgh) and was awarded the gold medal for the Fellowship examination. In the same year, Dr Su became a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine (Singapore) – Gold Medallist. In 2007, Dr Su was awarded the Health Manpower Development Plan fellowship by the Ministry of Health, Singapore. He became a Chief Fellow of the Thoracic Surgery & Lung Transplantation Programme at the Cleveland Clinic in the United States of America. He also completed a fellowship in adult cardiac surgery at the Cleveland Clinic, where he underwent training by many world renowned surgeons and received an award for best research paper. Upon returning to Singapore in 2009, Dr Su served as a consultant in the department of cardiothoracic surgery at the National Heart Centre Singapore. He also served as an adjunct assistant professor at the Duke-NUS Medical School and was a clinical physician faculty member for SingHealth’s residency programme where he was in charge of thoracic surgery training. He is a member of the International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS), International Society of Heart Lung Transplantation, Singapore Oncology Society, Singapore Cardiac Society, Singapore Thoracic Society, Singapore Heart Lung Transplantation Society, Chapter of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Academy of Medicine, Singapore. Dr Su has given presentations at international meetings, and has received the Best Paper Awards for some of them. He has also given lectures on minimally invasive cardiac and thoracic surgery in various countries. He has published his cardiac and thoracic paper in multiple peer-reviewed international medical journals and has co-authored the textbook chapter on “Minimally Invasive Approaches to Lung Cancer” in Greene’s Minimally Invasive Cancer Management. Dr Su received the Gold Service Quality Award from SingHealth and National Heart Centre Singapore in 2012.