Dr. Ong Sea Hing is a Consultant Cardiologist and Physician. His area of subspecialty is in coronary artery angioplasty and stenting including complex coronary interventions.He also performs transcatheter aortic valve implantations (TAVI).
Dr. Ong’s passion is for holistic patient care as well as teaching and training. His involvement in teaching included being a Core Faculty member of the Singhealth Cardiology Senior Residency Program and a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. During his tenure at CGH, he was appointed Director of the only JCI accredited Acute Myocardial Infarction (Heart Attack) Program in the country, from 2008 to 2015.
In the area of academics and research, Dr. Ong has published numerous research papers including articles in high impact factor journals. He has been invited as faculty member of several Asia-Pacific regional conferences and has presented in international conferences including winning best cases in the TCT Best Challenging Cases competition.
Dr. Ong is a believer that prevention is better than cure and therefore has organised several public forums and general practitioners symposiums with a focus on prevention as well as early detection of heart diseases.
Dr. Ong's specialty interests are acute myocardial infarction, coronary angioplasty and stenting, structural heart interventions and transcatheter aortic valve implantation.
You can use the FAST test to check for the most common symptoms of stroke in yourself or someone else:
Face: Smile and see if one side of the face droops
Arms: Raise both arms and see if one arm drops down
Speech: Say a short phrase and check for slurred or strange speech
Time: If any of the above symptoms are present, contact a healthcare provider and note down the time symptoms started
