Education Qualifications: MBBS, MMed (Int Med), MRCPE (Int Med), FAMS
Centre Singapore (NHCS), and Director of the Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory and Senior Consultant with the Department of Cardiology at NHCS. He is also the former Deputy Academic Vice Chair, Training & Education in the Cardiovascular Sciences Academic Clinical Programme.
Dr Lim’s subspecialty interest is in interventional cardiology, specializing in percutaneous coronary intervention, as well as peripheral vascular interventional treatment for diseases in carotid, renal, iliac and lower limb vessels. He has special interest in pulmonary hypertension. He leads the balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA) program for the treatment of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) in NHCS.
Dr Lim is also a team member of the left atrial appendage closure and transcatheter aortic valve implantation programs.
As immediate past Director of Medical Informatics of NHCS, Dr Lim dedicates substantial time to improve the health IT systems in NHCS and SingHealth. He currently chairs the projects for Cardiology Image and Information Management System and SingHealth ECG Management System.
Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships:
- Immediate past Director, Medical Informatics, National Heart Centre Singapore
- Chairperson, SingHealth Cardiology Image and information Management System
- Chairperson, SingHealth ECG Management System
- Member of Royal College of Physician, Edinburgh, UK (Since 1993)
- Fellow of the Academy of Medicine Singapore (Since 2000)
- Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, UK (Since 2004)
Awards:
- Distinguished Senior Clinician Award (2020) – can only be announced in Jan 2010
- Health Manpower Development Program (HMDP) team award for Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension (CTEPH) Program in Papworth Hospital, United Kingdom (June 2016)
- Singapore Health Quality Service STAR Award (2014)
- Outstanding Faculty Award, SingHealth Residency Program (2013-2016)
- 25th Singapore Cardiac Society Lecturer (2013) award
- Courage Fund Healthcare Humanity Award (2013)
- SingHealth GCEO Excellent Clinician Award (2012)
- Singapore Health Excellent Service Gold Award (2012)
- Outstanding Teacher Award, National Heart Centre (2011)
- Service Quality Gold Award, National Heart Centre of Singapore (2007)
- Health Manpower Development Program (HMDP) scholarship for further training in Interventional Cardiology and Vascular Medicine, at William Beaumont Hospital, Michigan & St Elizabeth’s Hospital, Massachusett, USA (1998 – 2000)
Leadership positions / roles in Education:
- Core faculty member, Cardiology Senior Residency Program, SingHealth
- Course Co-Director, Singapore Live Course
- Course Co-Director, Singapore CTO Course
Research Interests:
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Percutaneous coronary intervention – stent; other devices
- Cardiovascular pharmacotherapy
- CT-based physiologic assessment of coronary lesion
Selected Publications:
Chronic Total Occlusion Wiring: A State-of-the-Art Guide From The Asia Pacific Chronic Total Occlusion Club.
Wu EB, Tsuchikane E, Lo S, Lim ST, Ge L, Chen JY, Qian J, Lee SW, Kao HL, Harding SA.
Heart Lung Circ. 2019 Oct;28(10):1490-1500.
doi: 10.1016/j.hlc.2019.E04.004. Epub 2019 Apr 25.
Infrared (IR) thermography as a potential screening modality for carotid artery stenosis.
Saxena A, Ng EYK, Lim ST.
Comput Biol Med. 2019 Oct;113:103419.
doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2019.103419
Guiding Principles for Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.
Brilakis ES, Mashayekhi K, Tsuchikane E, Abi Rafeh N, Alaswad K, Araya M, Avran A, Azzalini L, Babunashvili AM, Bayani B, Bhindi R, Boudou N, Boukhris M, Božinović NŽ, Bryniarski L, Bufe A, Buller CE, Burke MN, Büttner HJ, Cardoso P, Carlino M, Christiansen EH, Colombo A, Croce K, Damas de Los Santos F, De Martini T, Dens J, Di Mario C, Dou K, Egred M, ElGuindy AM, Escaned J, Furkalo S, Gagnor A, Galassi AR, Garbo R, Ge J, Goel PK, Goktekin O, Grancini L, Grantham JA, Hanratty C, Harb S, Harding SA, Henriques JPS, Hill JM, Jaffer FA, Jang Y, Jussila R, Kalnins A, Kalyanasundaram A, Kandzari DE, Kao HL, Karmpaliotis D, Kassem HH, Knaapen P, Kornowski R, Krestyaninov O, Kumar AVG, Laanmets P, Lamelas P, Lee SW, Lefevre T, Li Y, Lim ST, Lo S, Lombardi W, McEntegart M, Munawar M, Navarro Lecaro JA, Ngo HM, Nicholson W, Olivecrona GK, Padilla L, Postu M, Quadros A, Quesada FH, Prakasa Rao VS, Reifart N, Saghatelyan M, Santiago R, Sianos G, Smith E, C Spratt J, Stone GW, Strange JW, Tammam K, Ungi I, Vo M, Vu VH, Walsh S, Werner GS, Wollmuth JR, Wu EB, Wyman RM, Xu B, Yamane M, Ybarra LF, Yeh RW, Zhang Q, Rinfret S.
Circulation. 2019 Jul 30;140(5):420-433. doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.119.039797
Independent Predictors of Cardiac Mortality and Hospitalization for Heart Failure in a Multi-Ethnic Asian ST-segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Population Treated by Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.
Bulluck H, Zheng H, Chan MY, Foin N, Foo DC, Lee CW, Lim ST, Sahlen A, Tan HC, Tan JW, Tong KL, Wong AS, Wong PE, Yeo KK, Foo LL, Chua TS, Koh TH, Hausenloy DJ.
Sci Rep. 2019 Jul 11;9(1):10072.
doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-46486-0
Retrograde Versus Antegrade Approach for Coronary Chronic Total Occlusion in an Algorithm-Driven Contemporary Asia-Pacific Multicenter Registry: Comparison of Outcomes.
Wu EB, Tsuchikane E, Ge L, Harding SA, Lo S, Lim ST, Chen JY, Lee SW, Qian J, Kao HL, Yan BPY.
Heart Lung Circ. 2019 Jul 2. pii: S1443-9506(19)31329-0.
doi: 10.1016/j.hlc.2019.05.188.
Is subdural hemorrhage after pulmonary endarterectomy underrecognized?
Yap J, Ruan W, Chia A, Loh K, Cheah FK, Leen Ang A, Phua GC, Sewa DW, Jenkins D, Le Tan J, Chao V, Lim ST.
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2018 Nov;156(5):2039-2042.
doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2018.06.029.
Advanced analyses of computed tomography coronary angiography can help discriminate ischemic lesions.
Zhang JM, Shuang D, Baskaran L, Wu W, Teo SK, Huang W, Gobeawan L, Allen JC, Tan RS, Su X, Ismail NB, Wan M, Su B, Zou H, Low R, Zhao X, Chi Y, Zhou J, Su Y, Lomarda AM, Chin CY, Fam JM, Keng FYJ, Wong ASL, Tan JWC, Yeo KK, Wong PEH, Chin CT, Ho KW, Yap J, Kassab GS, Chua T, Koh TH, Tan SY, Lim ST, Zhong L. Int J Cardiol. 2018 Sep;267:208-214.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2018.04.020.
Retrograde algorithm for chronic total occlusion from the Asia Pacific Chronic Total Occlusion Club.
Wu EB, Tsuchikane E, Lo S, Lim ST, Ge L, Chen JY, Quan J, Lee SW, Kao HL.
AsiaIntervention 2018 May;4:98-107
A New Algorithm for Crossing Chronic Total Occlusion from the Asia Pacific Chronic Total Occlusion Club.
Harding SA, Wu EB, Lo S, Lim ST, Ge L, Chen JY, Quan J, Lee SW, Kao HL, Tsuchikane E.
JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2017 Nov;10(21):2135-2143.
doi:10.1016/j.jcin.2017.06.071.
The use of a newer generation radiation reduction algorithm has led to lower radiation doses in coronary angiography: a two-year single-centre retrospective analysis.
Wu C, Yeo KK, Lim ST.
J Am Coll Cardiol, 2017 Mar;69 (11): 1088 (Supplement)