Education Qualifications: MBBS (S’pore), FACC, FAMS, FSCAI, ABIM (Internal Med, Cardiology & Interventional Cardiology, USA), ABVM (Vascular Medicine & Endovascular, USA)
Clinical Professor Yeo Khung Keong is the Chief Executive Officer and a Senior Consultant with the Department of Cardiology at the National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS). He is also the Academic Chair of the SingHealth Duke-NUS Cardiovascular Sciences Academic Clinical Programme, and was the Deputy Chief Executive Officer (Data Science and Innovation) at NHCS from January 2022 to May 2023. He leads the MitraClip programme at NHCS, and his subspecialty interests are in interventional cardiology, structural heart disease, vascular medicine and peripheral arterial interventions.
He is a Clinical Professor with Duke-NUS Medical School and is the Scientific Lead for the Clinical Sciences and Database Core at the National Heart Research Institute Singapore. In research work, he is the Principal Investigator of the SingCLOUD and SingHEART studies. Clin Prof Yeo is also the Deputy Group Chief Medical Informatics Officer (Research) for SingHealth. He previously served as the Programme Director of the SingHealth Cardiology Senior Residency Programme and also as the Academic Vice-Chair (Training and Education) for the SingHealth Duke-NUS Cardiovascular Academic Clinical Programme (April 2016 to March 2021).
Clin Prof Yeo is a member of the Singapore Cardiac Society; and is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC), American Heart Association (FAHA), American College of Cardiology (FACC), the Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology (FAPSC), the Asian Pacific Society of Interventional Cardiology (FAPSIC), and the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (FSCAI). He is the Past-Chair of the Chapter of Cardiologists, Academy of Medicine Singapore, and the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology.
Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships:
- Chief Executive Officer, NHCS, 1 June 2023 – Present
- Academic Chair of the SingHealth Duke-NUS Cardiovascular Sciences Academic Clinical Programme, June 2023 – Present
- Deputy Chief Executive Officer (Data Science and Innovation), NHCS, April 2022 – 31 May 2023
- Deputy Medical Director (Data Science and Innovation), NHCS, January 2022 – March 2022
- Senior Consultant, Department of Cardiology, NHCS, 2013 – Present
- Deputy Group Chief Medical Informatics Officer (Research), SingHealth, October 2018 – Present
- Research EXCO, SingHealth Duke-NUS Cardiovascular Sciences Academic Clinical Programme, to May 2023
- Vice Chair, Education and Training, SingHealth Duke-NUS Cardiovascular Sciences Academic Clinical Programme, April 2016 – March 2021
- Chair, Chapter of Cardiologists, Academy of Medicine, May 2017 – 2021
- Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology, 2015 – Present
- Fellow, Academy of Medicine Singapore, 2013
- Fellow, American College of Cardiology, 2012
- Fellow, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, 2012
- Member, American Heart Association, 2012
- Ordinary Member, Singapore Cardiac Society, 2012
- Full membership, Academic Medicine Education Institute, 10/2012
Awards:
- SingHealth RiSE Awards 2020 – Outstanding Faculty Award
- SingHealth Excellence Awards 2016 – Outstanding Educator
- Service Quality Silver Award, Singhealth 2013
- Service Quality Bronze Award, NHCS 2013
- Winner, 2008 Cardiovascular Research Award, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California
- Best resident, Nephrology, 2005, Internal Medicine Residency Program University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
- Best resident, Cardiology, 2005, Internal Medicine Residency Program University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
- Best Internal Medicine Resident 2005, Queens Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
Research Interests:
- Percutaneous mitral and tricuspid valve interventions
- Outcomes in percutaneous coronary interventions, including health services research
- Database, Registry, Data Science and Big Data research
Selected Publications:
Yeo KK, Armstrong EJ, Lopez JE, Chen DC, Westin GG, Li CS, Anderson D, Hua A, Singapuri A, Amsterdam EA, Chiamvimonvat N and Laird JR.
Aspirin and clopidogrel high on-treatment platelet reactivity and genetic predictors in peripheral arterial disease.
Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions. 2018 Jun;91(7): 1308-1317
Yap J, Singh GD, Kim JS, Soni K, Chua K, Neo A, Koh CH, Armstrong EJ, Waldo SW, Shunk KA, Low RI, Hong MK, Jang Y and
Yeo KK. Outcomes of primary percutaneous coronary intervention in acute myocardial infarction due to unprotected left main thrombosis: The Asia-Pacific Left Main ST-Elevation Registry (ASTER).
Journal of interventional cardiology. 2018;31:129-135.
Lim WK, Davila S, Teo JX, Yang C, Pua CJ, Blocker C, Lim JQ, Ching J, Yap JJL, Tan SY, Sahlen A, Chin CW, I BT, Rozen SG, Cook SA,
Yeo KK and Tan P.
Beyond fitness tracking: The use of consumer-grade wearable data from normal volunteers in cardiovascular and lipidomics research.
PLoS Biol. 2018;16:e2004285.
Lim FY, Yap J, Gao F, Teo LL, Lam CSP and
Yeo KK. Correlation of the New York Heart Association classification and the cardiopulmonary exercise test: A systematic review.
Int J Cardiol. 2018;263:88-93.
Bylstra Y, Kuan JL, Lim WK, Bhalshankar JD, Teo JX, Davila S, I BT, Rozen S, Tan EC, Liew WKM,
Yeo KK, Tan P, SinGapore Incidental Finding study g, Saw SM, Cheng CY, Cook S, Foo R and Jamuar SS.
Population genomics in South East Asia captures unexpectedly high carrier frequency for treatable inherited disorders.
Genet Med. 2018.
Yeo KK, Zheng H, Chow KY, Ahmad A, Chan BPL, Chang HM, Chong E, Chua TSJ, Foo DCG, Low LP, Ong MEH, Ong HY, Koh TH, Tan HC, Tang KF and Venketasubramanian N.
Comparative analysis of recurrent events after presentation with an index myocardial infarction or ischaemic stroke.
Eur Heart J Qual Care Clin Outcomes. 2017;3:234-242.
Yeo KK, Armstrong EJ, Soni K, Waldo SW, Patel M, Reeves R, MacGregor JS, Low RI, Shunk KA, Mahmud E and Rogers JH.
Long-term outcomes of angiographically confirmed coronary stent thrombosis: results from a multicentre California registry. EuroIntervention : journal of EuroPCR in collaboration with the Working Group on Interventional Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology. 2015;11:188-95.
Yeo KK, Yap J, Yamen E, Muda N, Tay E, Walters DL, Santoso T, Liu X, Jansz P, Yip J, Zambahari R, Passage J, Koh TH, Wang J, Scalia G, Kuntjoro I, Soesanto AM and Muller D.
Percutaneous mitral valve repair with the MitraClip: early results from the MitraClip Asia-Pacific Registry (MARS).
EuroIntervention : journal of EuroPCR in collaboration with the Working Group on Interventional Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology. 2014;10:620-5.
Yeo KK, Maddox TM, Carey E, Low RI and Shunk KA.
Right- and Left-Sided Heart Catheterization as a Quality Marker for Catheterization Laboratories (from the National Veterans Affairs Clinical Assessment Reporting and Tracking Program).
The American journal of cardiology. 2014;114:1758-62.
Yeo KK, Mahmud E, Armstrong EJ, Bennett WE, Shunk KA, MacGregor JS, Li Z, Low RI and Rogers JH.
Contemporary clinical characteristics, treatment, and outcomes of angiographically confirmed coronary stent thrombosis: results from a multicenter California registry.
Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions. 2012;79:550-6.