Dr Su Jang Wen

• Thoracic&Cardiovascular Surgery Speciali

  Address

  6A Napier Road #03-16
  Gleneagles Medical Centre
  Singapore 258499

  Tel

  6473 3930

  Fax

  6476 0636
  
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• Specialty

  • Cardiothoracic Surgery

• Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
  • Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, UK
  • Master of Medicine (Surgery)
  • Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, UK
  • Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore (Cardiothoracic Surgery)

• Languages Spoken

  • English

Background

• Dr Su Jang Wen is a cardiothoracic surgeon practising at Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore.
• His main interest is in minimally invasive surgery, and also performs a full range of surgery for cardiac and thoracic conditions.
• He performs surgeries including coronary artery bypass graft, mitral valve repair/replacement, aortic valve replacement, aortic dissection repair, aortic root surgery including valve sparing operation, pulmonary embolectomy, pulmonary endarterectomy, cardiac tumor resection, heart failure surgery, extra corporeal membrane oxygenator (ECMO), lung cancer surgery, lobectomy, pneumonectomy, VATS nodulectomy, mediastinal tumor resection, esophagectomy, pleurodesis for pneumothorax and pleural effusion.
• Dr Su became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Cardiothoracic Surgery) in 2006, and was awarded the gold medal for the Fellowship examination. In the same year, Dr Su became a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore – Gold Medallist.
• In 2007, Dr Su was awarded the Health Manpower Development Plan (HMDP) fellowship by the Ministry of Health in Singapore. From 2007 – 2009, he was the first foreign fellow to be a Chief Fellow of the Thoracic Surgery & Lung Transplantation Programme at the Cleveland Clinic, USA. He received comprehensive training under thoracic & esophageal surgeon, Professor Thomas W Rice. He also completed a fellowship in Adult Cardiac Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic, which has been ranked as the top Cardiothoracic Centre in the USA since 1995. During this time, he underwent intensive training by Dr Gosta Pettersson, Dr Nicholas Smedira and a panel of other renowned surgeons and received a prestigious award for the best research paper.
• Upon returning to Singapore in 2009, Dr Su served as a consultant in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the National Heart Centre in Singapore, making him one of the youngest ever cardiothoracic surgeons in the world. Since 2007, Dr Su has carried out more than 3,000 heart, lung and esophageal surgeries. He was also a visiting consultant at the National Cancer Centre in Singapore and Changi General Hospital. During his practice at the National Heart Centre Singapore, he held the record of having no mortalities in most elective heart and lung surgery, including coronary artery bypass graft, cardiac valvular and acute aortic dissection procedures.
• In 2009, Dr Su pioneered minimally invasive cardiac surgery at the National Heart Centre in Singapore. He further developed and successfully applied this technique in coronary artery bypass surgery, valvular surgery (aortic, mitral and tricuspid), atrial septal defect closure, arrhythmia surgery, ventricular aneurysm repair and acute ventricular septal rupture. Dr Su was also the first surgeon to have performed minimally invasive coronary artery bypass surgery in Gleneagles Hospital in 2013.