Dr. Jayaram Lingamanaicker is a Senior Cardiology Consultant with over 20 years of clinical experience in medicine and cardiology and is especially skilled in balloon angioplasty. He is a passionate cardiologist who is also well versed in cardiac catheterization and stenting, echocardiography, pacemaker implantation and other cardiac tests.
Prior to private practice, Dr. Jayaram served in the public sector for over a decade as Senior Consultant Interventional Cardiologist and later, Senior Consultant and Head of Cardiology at Changi General Hospital.
Dr. Jayaram received his education and medical training in various prestigious hospitals in the U.K. including the University of Oxford. He obtained his basic degree from the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and spent the next 12 years of his career in various hospitals.
Apart from clinical work, Dr. Jayaram has also done extensive research work published in medical publications. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the National University of Singapore. Dr. Jayaram has attended both local and regional cardiology conferences and is often invited as a speaker in the Asia Pacific region.
Dr Jayaram's specialty interests are cardiac catheterization and stenting, echocardiography and pacemaker implantation.
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