Bio
Clinical Associate Professor Jonathan Yap is a Senior Consultant with the Department of Cardiology at NHCS and Director ot Structural Heart Interventions. His sub-specialty interest is in interventional cardiology, pulmonary hypertension and structural heart disease including transcatheter aortic valve interventions (TAVI) for aortic stenosis and percutenous left atrial appendage closure for atrial fibrillation, amongst others. He spent a year in the United States performing his advanced fellowship in structural heart interventions at UC Davis Health, a high-volume tertiary cardiac centre. He has a keen interest in performing complex coronary and structural heart interventions.
Clin Assoc Prof Yap has a passion for education and research. Besides being the Director of Medical Student Training, he is actively involved in numerous ongoing research projects and has published and reviewed extensively in many international scientific journals. He is on the editorial board of several international journals and is also the editor of an electrocardiogram (ECG) teaching app.
Education
Graduate Diploma (Palliative Medicine)
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Master of Public Health
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Master of Medicine (Internal Medicine)
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Member, Royal Coll of Physicians
Royal College of Physicians, UK, United Kingdom
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
National University of Singapore, Singapore
NUS Appointment(s)
Clinical Senior Lecturer
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS,
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