Aortic dissection is a life-threatening condition which can be hard to diagnose due to its ability to manifest and present as many different pathologies. It is the great clinical mimic. Dr Andrew will discuss diagnosis and 21st century modern management of this condition.
Our Speaker
Dr. Andrew Mark Choong
Vascular, Endovascular and Aortic Surgeon
Dr. Choong graduated from the Imperial College London School of Medicine at St. Mary’s, UK, in 2003. He underwent training in vascular, endovascular and aortic surgery in the United Kingdom and Australia at the Imperial Vascular Unit at St. Mary’s Hospital London, and as the international fellow at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Queensland. He was awarded a PhD for his research on endovascular surgery by the University of Warwick, UK, in 2020, and has written over 100 research articles.
After practicing in the UK and Australia for more than 12 years, he left his consultant post at King’s College Hospital, London, UK, to join the National University Heart Centre, Singapore in 2015. He was a senior consultant and an Associate Professor at the Department of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore for over 7 years before leaving to join the Asian Aortic and Vascular Centre.
He has won multiple awards including the HJ Windsor prize from the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Professor William Burnett Research Fellowship from the University of Queensland. In 2014, by examination, he was awarded the Gold Medal for achieving the Fellowship of the European Board of Vascular Surgery with Honours, for the highest overall examination performance of all candidates.
Whilst Dr. Choong’s clinical expertise is in complex open, hybrid and endovascular aortic surgery, he regularly performs all vascular surgery including, but not limited to, lower limb revascularisation for critical limb ischaemia, arteriovenous fistula/graft creation and maintenance, carotid surgery, line insertion and removal, retroperitoneal spine exposures and thrombolysis/aspiration thrombectomy for deep venous thromboses.
