Clin Asst Prof Lau Man Chun Jeffrey

BA, MD (USA), PhD (USA), FACC

Senior Consultant

National Heart Centre Singapore

Specialty: Cardiology

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About

Education and Training

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Awards

Research Trials

Publications

Conditions Treated By This Doctor

Cardiovascular Disease Chest Pain Coronary Artery Disease Coronary Heart Disease Valvular Heart Disease

Clinical Interests

Echocardiography

Clinical Appointments

Senior Consultant

Department of Cardiology

Academic Appointments

Director, Cardiology Senior Residency Programme

Cardiovascular Sciences Academic Clinical Programme

Faculty & Professional Development EXCO

Cardiovascular Sciences Academic Clinical Programme

About

Clinical Assistant Professor Lau is a Senior Consultant from Department of Cardiology at the National Heart Centre Singapore. He graduated with his Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy from Washington University, St. Louis, USA, and received his post-graduate internal medicine and non-invasive cardiology training at the Barnes-Jewish Hospital. He is a well-published expert in the area of Positron Emission Tomography/ Magnetic Resonance (PET/ MR) cardiac imaging.

Clin Asst Prof Lau also specialises in using Echocardiography in diagnostic and preventive cardiology. He is also heavily involved in medical education, and currently leads the Singhealth cardiology senior residency training programme at NHCS.

Education and Training

FACC 2014
Echocardiography (NBE, USA) 2011
CBNC (Nuclear Cardiology, USA) 2014
PhD (Washington University, USA) 2008
MD (Washington University, USA) 2008
BA (USA) 2000

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Senior Consultant, Department of Cardiology, National Heart Centre Singapore, November 2021 – Present
Consultant, Department of Cardiology, National Heart Centre Singapore, 2015 – October 2021
Clinical Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School
Director, Cardiology Senior Residency Programme, SingHealth Duke-NUS Cardiovascular Sciences Academic Clinical Programme
Faculty & Professional Development EXCO, SingHealth Duke-NUS Cardiovascular Sciences Academic Clinical Programme
Programme Director, NHCS Clinical Associate and Resident Physician Programme
Core Faculty, NHCS Senior Residency Programme
Faculty, Duke-NUS LIS programme
Member, American Heart Association, 2017 – Present
Member, Singapore Cardiac Society, 2017 – Present
Member, Singapore Medical Association, 2017 – Present
Member, American College of Cardiology, 2010 – Present

Awards

Fellow of American College of Cardiology 2016
Young Investigator Award at Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2013
National Institute of Health T32 research training grant 2013-2014
Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin research award 2007

Research Trials

FIGARO & FIDELIO DKD trials, Co-investigator

Publications

Cardiac Applications of PET/MR Imaging. Lau JM, Laforest R, Nensa F, Zheng J, Gropler RJ, Woodard PK. Magn Reson Imaging Clin N Am. 2017 May;25(2):325-333. doi: 10.1016/j.mric.2016.12.007. Review. Epub 2017 Feb 27.
Disease-specific cardiovascular positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging: a brief review of the current literature. Lau JM, Zheng J. Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery. 2016;6(3):297-307. Epub 2016/07/19.
Evaluation of Attenuation Correction in Cardiac PET using PET/MR. Lau et al. Manuscript accepted to J Nucl Cardiol. 2015.
Demonstration of intermittent ischemia and stunning in hibernating myocardium. Lau et al. J Nucl Cardiol. 2013 Oct;20(5):908-12.

Research Publications

Characteristics of the electrocardiogram in patients with continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices. Martinez et al. Ann Noninvasive Electrocardiol. 2015 Jan;20(1):62-8.
Analysis of 14-3-3 family member function in Xenopus embryos by microinjection of antisense morpholino oligos. Lau and Muslin. Methods Mol Biol. 2009 518:31-41.
The 14-3-3tau phosphoserine-binding protein is required for cardiomyocyte survival. Lau et al. Mol Cell Biol. 2007. 27:1455-66.
Differential role of 14-3-3 family members in Xenopus development. Lau et al. Dev Dyn 2006. 235:1761-76.
Differential functions of 14-3-3 isoforms in vertebrate development. Muslin and Lau. Curr Top Dev Biol. 2005. 65:211-28.
Plus and minus sexual agglutinins from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Ferris et al. Plant Cell 2005. 17:597-615.
Co-author for Washington Manual Cardiology Subspecialty textbook, 3rd edition, chapter for cardiovascular disease in women and minority groups.