Dr Tan Svenszeat
Cardiologist
Experience
Dr Tan Svenszeat is a cardiologist at Mount Elizabeth Hospital and Parkway East Hospital, Singapore.
His area of expertise is in interventional cardiology with a focus on managing patients with occluded coronary arteries in both emergency and elective settings.
He is experienced in the treatment of heart attack patients who need immediate ballooning and stenting of the blocked arteries in the heart.
Dr Tan also managed patients with more complex coronary artery diseases and chronic total occlusions during his fellowship in adult interventional cardiology at the University of Ottowa Heart Institute, Canada, from 2015 – 2016.
During the fellowship, he was also a member of the heart team in transcatheter aortic valve replacement, where he dealt with patients with severe aortic stenosis and are not suitable for surgical valve replacement.
Dr Tan was previously the coronary care unit director in Changi General Hospital where he actively played a major role in educating junior cardiology doctors on managing critically ill patients.
His previous academic appointments include senior clinical lecturer with the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University Hospital Singapore.
Fellowship and accreditation
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (Ireland)
Licentiate Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Ireland
Member of the Royal College of Physicians, UK
Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore (Cardiology)
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