Dr. Pipin Kojodjojo is a cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist at Asian Heart and Vascular Centre. After practicing in the United Kingdom and United States for 14 years, he joined the National University Heart Centre, Singapore (NUHCS) in 2012 in the role of Senior Consultant. During his decade-long appointment at NUHCS, he was also Director of Cardiology at Ng Teng Fong General Hospital between 2017 to 2021 and led or participated in committees that had oversight over telehealth, quality assurance, anticoagulation safety, collaborative prescribing, and outpatient services.
Dr. Kojodjojo was also appointed Assistant Professor at the Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He is accredited by the International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners as a Clinical Cardiac Devices Specialist, and as a Fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society, American College of Cardiology, and European Society of Cardiology.
Dr. Kojodjojo graduated from St. Bartholomew’s and Royal London Hospital Medical School, University of London in 1998 and has been a member of the Royal College of Physicians since 2001. He underwent training in cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology at St. Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College London, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School in Boston.
His specialty interests are atrial fibrillation and heart rhythm disorders in adolescents and adults, implantation of cardiac devices such as pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), catheter ablation of simple and complex arrhythmias, left atrial appendage occlusion for stroke prevention, pulmonary thrombectomy for acute pulmonary embolism, sudden cardiac death, ventricular tachycardia, and syncope.
He participates actively in clinical research and has authored more than 130 peer-review journal articles, book chapters and has been awarded prestigious research grants from Wellcome Trust, A*Star, NMRC and British Heart Foundation.
He set up Asia-Pacific’s first rapid access chest pain clinic to provide one-stop evaluation of chest pain and first 24/7 response team to manage patients with life-threatening acute pulmonary embolism. He also established Singapore’s first clinic designed exclusively to manage patients with blackouts. As a high-volume, experienced proceduralist, he performed the first ECMO-assisted VT ablation, ultrasound-assisted thrombolysis for PE, large bore suction thrombectomy, pulsed field ablation for AF with concomitant left atrial appendage occlusion and implanted the first dual chamber leadless pacemaker and Bluetooth-enabled loop recorder in Singapore.
His specialty interests are in atrial fibrillation, arrhythmia, syncope, heart failure, catheter ablation, pacemakers, ICDs, and pulmonary embolism.
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
