Dr Amar Vaswani

Dr Amar is an Associate Consultant from the Department of Cardiology at National Heart Centre Singapore and Changi General Hospital. His clinical interest is in interventional cardiology and he has a passion for medical education.

• Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom, MRCP (UK), 2020
• Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, MBChB (Edinburgh), 2016

• Clinical Instructor, Duke-NUS Medical School, Feb 2026 - Present
• ​Associate Consultant, Department of Cardiology, National Heart Centre Singapore, June 2025 - Present

• ​Winner, American College of Cardiology FIT Jeopardy International 2025
• Shining Hearts Award 2024
• Inspiring Resident Educator 2024
• British Medical Association Young Author’s Award 2019
• Service with a Heart Award 2016

• Transcatheter closure of a coronary artery to pulmonary artery fistula with two sequential giant aneurysms
  Uy FM, Vaswani A, Tay KH, Lim ST, Yap J
  J Invasive Cardiol 2024 Mar 4. Doi: 10.25270/jic/24.00024
• Identifying and Solving Gaps in Pre- and In-Hospital Acute Myocardial Infarction Care in Asia-Pacific Countries
  Tern PJW, Vaswani A, Yeo KK
  Korean Circ J, 2023 Sep 53 (9): 594-605.
• Prevalence, determinants, and clinical associations of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin in patients attending emergency departments
  KK Lee, Noaman A, Vaswani A, Gibbins M, Griffiths M, Chapman AR, Strachan FE, McAllister D, Newby DE, Gray AJ, Mills NL, Shah ASV
  The American Journal of Medicine 132, Oct 2018
• Patient selection for high sensitivity cardiac troponin testing and diagnosis of myocardial infarction: prospective cohort study;
  ASV Shah, Sandoval Y, Noaman A, Sexter, A, Vaswani A, Smith SW, Gibbins M, Griffiths, M, Chapman AR, Strachan FE, Anand A, Denvir M, Adamson, P, D’Souza M, Gray AJ, McAllister DA, Newby DE, Apple FS, Mills NL
  BMJ, 2017 359:j4788
• High Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin I at presentation in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome: a cohort study
  Shah ASV, Anand A, Sandoval Y, Lee KK, Smith SW, Adamson P, Chapman AR, Langdon T, Sandeman D, Vaswani A, Strachan FE, Ferry A, Stirkazer AG, Reid A, Gray AJ, O Collinson P, McAllister D, Apple FS, Newby DE, Mills NL
  The Lancet 386, October 2015

• Cardiology in a Heartbeat 2e, 2022
• Medicine in a Minute, 2016