Clin Asst Prof Lau Man Chun Jeffrey

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

Senior Consultant

National Heart Centre Singapore

Specialty: Cardiology

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About Doctor

Languages Spoken

Education and Training

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Awards

Research Trials/Clinical Trials

Publications

Conditions Treated By This Doctor

Cardiac Imaging Cardiovascular Disease Coronary Artery Disease / Coronary Heart Disease Valvular Heart Disease

Clinical Interests

Echocardiography

Clinical Appointments

Senior Consultant

Cardiology

Academic Appointments

Clinical Asst Professor

Cardiovascular Sciences Academic Clinical Programme

Lecturer, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine

About Doctor

Clinical Assistant Professor Lau is a Senior Consultant from Department of Cardiology at the National Heart Centre Singapore. He graduated with Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy from Washington University, St. Louis, USA, and received his post-graduate training in internal medicine and multimodality cardiology imaging at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, one of the leading medical centres in the world. His current clinical focus are Echocardiographic Imaging and Preventive Cardiology. He is the pro-tem Head of Department of Cardiology in Eastern General Hospital.

Clin Asst Prof Lau is deeply committed to medical education, he was previously the programme director for Singhealth cardiology senior residency programme from 2018-2024, and currently serves a core faculty after he completed his PD terms. He is also heavily involved in environmental initiatives, holding the position of institutional sustainability officer of NHCS.

Clin Asst Prof Lau is also a current council member in the Singapore Cardiac Society.

Languages Spoken

English
Chinese

Cantonese

Education and Training

FASE 2016
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

Pro-tem Head of Department of Cardiology, Eastern General Hospital, 2024-Present
Senior Consultant, Department of Cardiology, National Heart Centre Singapore, November 2021 – Present
Consultant, Department of Cardiology, National Heart Centre Singapore, 2015 – October 2021
Institutional Sustainability Officer, National Heart Centre Singapore, 2024-Present
Council Member, Singapore Cardiac Society, 2025 – Present
Member, American Heart Association, 2017 – Present
Member, Singapore Medical Association, 2017 – Present
Member, American College of Cardiology, 2010 – Present

Awards

Residency in SingHealth Excels (RiSE) Awards 2024 - Faculty Appreciation Award for Cardiology
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/Clinical Trials

Co-investigator, Victorion-2
Co-investigator, HHT study

Publications

Jiang H, Koh SJQ, Lau J, Tan SY. Survival post out-of-hospital cardiac arrest from anomalous right coronary artery: A case report and insight into management. J Cardiol Cases. 2025 Feb 28;31(6):162-165. doi: 10.1016/j.jccase.2025.02.004. eCollection 2025 Jun.
Li R, Edalati M, Muccigrosso D, Lau JMC, Laforest R, Woodard PK, Zheng J. A simplified method to correct saturation of arterial input function for cardiac magnetic resonance first-pass perfusion imaging: validation with simultaneously acquired PET. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2023 Jun 22;25(1):35. doi: 10.1186/s12968-023-00945-w.
Loh J, Amanullah MR, See CK, Tang HC, Gunasegaran K, Hamid N, Lau J, Lee CY, Ewe SH, Ding ZP, Sahlén A.Predicting premature termination of exercise during Bruce protocol stress echocardiography.Echocardiography. 2021 Sep;38(9):1612-1617. doi: 10.1111/echo.
Lau JMC, Raptis DA, Laforest R, Nensa F, Zheng J, Gropler RJ, Woodard PK. Cardiac Positron Emission Tomography-Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Current Status and Future Directions. J Thorac Imaging. 2018 May;33(3):139-146. doi: 10.1097/RTI.0000000000000327.
Lau et al. (2015) Evaluation of Attenuation Correction in Cardiac PET using PET/MR. Manuscript accepted to J Nucl Cardiol.
Martinez et al. (2014) Characteristics of the electrocardiogram in patients with continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices. Ann Noninvasive Electrocardiol. 2015 Jan;20(1):62-8.
Lau et al. (2013). Demonstration of intermittent ischemia and stunning in hibernating myocardium. J Nucl Cardiol. 2013 Oct;20(5):908-12.
Lau and Muslin. (2009) Analysis of 14-3-3 family member function in Xenopus embryos by microinjection of antisense morpholino oligos. Methods Mol Biol. 518:31-41.
Lau et al. (2007)The 14-3-3tau phosphoserine-binding protein is required for cardiomyocyte survival. Mol Cell Biol. 27:1455-66.
Lau et al. (2006) Differential role of 14-3-3 family members in Xenopus development. Dev Dyn 235:1761-76.11. Muslin and Lau (2005) Differential functions of 14-3-3 isoforms in vertebrate development. Curr Top Dev Biol. 65:211-28.
Ferris et al. (2005) Plus and minus sexual agglutinins from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Plant Cell 17:597-615.

Review Articles

Lau JM, Zheng J. Disease-specific cardiovascular positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging: a brief review of the current literature. Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery. 2016;6(3):297-307. Epub 2016/07/19.
Lau JM, Laforest R, Nensa F, Zheng J, Gropler RJ, Woodard PK. Cardiac Applications of PET/MR Imaging. Magn Reson Imaging Clin N Am. 2017 May;25(2):325-333. doi: 10.1016/j.mric.2016.12.007. Epub 2017 Feb 27. Review.