Dr. See Jia Hao Jason is a consultant cardiologist and physician with a subspecialty interest in multi-modality cardiac imaging.
Dr. See believes in holistic patient care and has a keen interest in preventive cardiology and public health. He is an advocate for exercise and smoking cessation, having completed the Exercise Prescription Course for Primary Care Physicians and is also a Certified Cardiac Rehab Practitioner. He was Program Lead of the Smoking Cessation Program at Changi General Hospital (CGH) where he expanded the scope of the service and introduced teleconsultations. As Senior Clinical Fellow of the Centre of Performance Excellence at CGH, he was deeply involved in advancing value-based healthcare to optimize patient outcomes.
He graduated from the National University of Singapore in 2005 and subsequently obtained his Royal College of Physicians (UK) membership in 2010. He continued to train in cardiology at CGH and National Heart Centre Singapore, and obtained his specialist accreditation in cardiology in 2014. Dr. See was awarded the Ministry of Health’s Human Manpower Development Program scholarship to pursue fellowship training in advanced cardiac imaging at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London from 2016 to 2017 where he was also exposed to less common imaging cases in congenital heart disease and cardiac sarcoidosis. He holds diplomate certifications in echocardiography, nuclear cardiology, and cardiovascular computed tomography. He was instrumental in setting up the Nuclear Cardiology service at CGH and served as its inaugural director. On the academic front, Dr. See was Adjunct Assistant Professor at both the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS) and Duke-NUS Medical School. He has published in multiple journals and presented at numerous conferences. He is an instructor in Advanced Cardiac Life Support and also continues to teach medical ethics as teaching faculty with the Singapore Medical Association Centre for Medical Ethics and Professionalism.
Dr. See's specialty interests are echocardiology, nuclear cardiology, CT coronary angiography, coronary heart disease, valvular heart disease, heart failure and preventive cardiology.
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