Speakers

Associate Professor Khung Keong Yeo

National Heart Centre Singapore

Adj Assoc Prof Yeo graduated in 1997 from the National University of Singapore where he obtained his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery. He subsequently trained in the United States of America and obtained his American Board of Internal Medicine Certifications in Internal Medicine (University of Hawaii), Cardiovascular Medicine (University of California, Davis), Interventional Cardiology (University of California, Davis). He then spent additional year training with a world-renowned cardiologist in peripheral arterial and carotid interventions.

He is also Board-Certified by the American Board of Vascular Medicine in Vascular Medicine and in Endovascular procedures. During his time at UC Davis, he trained in the MitraClip percutaneous repair of the mitral valve for mitral regurgitation. Currently, Adj Assoc Prof Yeo leads the MitraClip programme at the National Heart Centre, Singapore, the first in Asia. In Singapore he is also part of the Core Faculty at the Singhealth Internal Medicine Residency Programme; and Programme Director of the Singhealth Cardiology Senior Residency Programme.

Adj Assoc Prof Yeo's sub-specialty is in interventional cardiology, structural heart disease, vascular medicine and peripheral arterial interventions.

He has particular research interest in structural and valvular heart disease, coronary artery disease and peripheral arterial diseases. He has published widely in international peer-reviewed journals and is a peer-reviewer for the American Journal of Cardiology, ASEAN Heart Journal and Singapore Medical Journal.

Adj Assoc Prof Yeo is a member of the Singapore Cardiac Society, American Heart Association, and is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC), the Academy of Medicine, Singapore (FAMS) and of the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (FSCAI).