Dr. Chan Wan Xian is a cardiologist, echocardiologist, and heart failure intensivist. She was formerly Senior Consultant and Co-Director of the women’s heart health service at the National University Heart Centre, Singapore (NUHCS). She is currently Adjunct Assistant Professor of the Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore.
During her term at NUHCS, she led the transitional and home care services for complex heart failure patients. She was awarded the Outstanding Collaborating Physician Award in 2016 by National University Hospital (NUH) for her role in an initiative which won the Merit award as a Quality Improvement project (Carehub pilot project in cardiac patients) in the same year.
Dr. Chan graduated with MBBS from the National University of Singapore and was admitted as Member of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom. She went on to complete her Advanced Specialist Training in Cardiology at NUHCS.
Dr. Chan was awarded a scholarship to pursue her sub-specialization training in advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation at the Toronto University Health Network. She also received training in cardiomyopathy and cardiac imaging (including nuclear cardiology imaging and echocardiography). Subsequently, she was awarded a scholarship as part of a team and pursued further training in women’s heart health at Mayo Clinic, USA and the Ottawa Heart Institute, Canada.
Her specialty interests are cardiomyopathy, valvular heart disease, heart failure, myocardial infarction (heart attack), cardiac imaging including echocardiography, mechanical heart support, hypertension, nuclear cardiology techniques, and preventive cardiology.
Most heart attacks involve persistent discomfort in the centre or left side of the chest that last for more than a few minutes or one that comes and goes.
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