Dr Hong Rilong

MBBS (Hons) (Australia), MMed (Int Med) (Singapore), MRCP (UK)

Associate Consultant

National Heart Centre Singapore

Specialty: Cardiology

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Education and Training

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Awards

Publications

Conditions Treated By This Doctor

Cardiovascular Disease Coronary Artery Disease / Coronary Heart Disease Echocardiogram Heart Failure Nuclear Cardiology

Clinical Interests

Echocardiography, Heart Failure, Nuclear Cardiology

Clinical Appointments

Associate Consultant

Cardiology

Associate Consultant

Cardiology

Academic Appointments

Clinical Instructor

Cardiovascular Sciences Academic Clinical Programme

About

Dr Hong Rilong is an Associate Consultant from the Department of Cardiology at National Heart Centre Singapore and Changi General Hospital. His clinical interest is in the management of heart failure. He also has a keen interest in cardiac imaging; specifically, Echocardiography and Nuclear Cardiology.

Education and Training

Specialist Accreditation in Cardiology, Jan 2024
Masters of Medicine (Internal Medicine), Jan 2019
Membership of the Royal College of Physicians, United Kingdom, Oct 2018
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (Hons), Monash University, Australia, Dec 2013

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Associate Consultant, Department of Cardiology, National Heart Centre Singapore, Feb 2024 - Present
Clinical Instructor, Duke-NUS Medical School, 16 October 2024 - Present

Awards

National University of Singapore - Junior Doctor Teaching Award for outstanding teaching and mentoring of students in Academic Year 2021/2022
RISE Awards - Outstanding Resident Medicine ACP Education Awards (2018 and 2020)
Medicine ACP Education Awards Team Education (2019)
Service with a Heart Award (2014)

Publications

Outpatient Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Scan for a Low-Risk Chest Pain Cohort From the Emergency Department: A Retrospective Analysis. Tan WA, Hong R, Gao F, Chua SJT, Keng YJF, Koh CH. Curr Probl Cardiol. 2023 Mar;48(3):101517. Doi: 10.1016/j.cpcardiol.2022.101517.
Script concordance test to assess diagnostic and management reasoning in acute medicine. Letter to the Editor. Fong N, Hoe R, Huang D, Wong C, Kee J, Teng A, Hong R, Saffari S, Tan K, Tan K. Ann Acad Med Singap 2023;52:383-5. https://doi.org/10.47102/annals-acadmedsg.202327
Pericarditis and Myocarditis after mRNA-based COVID-19 Vaccination. Hong R, Yap J, Yeo KK. Journal of Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology 2022;1:e17. Doi: 10.15420/japsc.2021.26.
Clinical presentation of cardiac myxoma in a Singapore national cardiac centre. Lee PT, Hong R, Pang PY, Chua YL, Ding ZP. Singapore Med J. 2020 Mar 31. Doi: 10.11622/smedj.2020041.