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Clin Asst Prof Lee Chung Yin

MBBS, M MED (Int Med), FAMS

Senior Consultant

National Heart Centre Singapore

Specialty: Cardiology

Sub-specialties: Echocardiography

Conditions Treated by this Doctor:
Cardiovascular Disease, Chest Pain, Chest Pain, Echocardiogram.

Clinical Appointments

Senior Consultant Department of Cardiology National Heart Centre Singapore

Profile

Clinical Assistant Professor Lee Chung Yin is a Senior Consultant with the Department of Cardiology at the National Heart Centre Singapore.

Clin Asst Prof Lee’s sub-specialty interest is in echocardiography.

Education

Masters of Medicine (Internal Medicine) from the National University of Singapore, 1992
Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, 1987

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Senior Consultant, Department of Cardiology, National Heart Centre Singapore
Director of Training Education, National Heart Centre Singapore
Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, from 1994
Clinical Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School

Awards

National Heart Centre Singapore Service Quality Bronze Award, Oct–Dec 2009
SGH Service Quality Award Winner 2006

Research Interests

Cardiology

Publications

Percutaneous transcatheter aortic valve replacement: first transapical implant in Asia. Chao VTT, Chua YL, Chiam PTL, Lee CY, See Tho VY, Tan SY, Sin YK, Hwang NC, Lim ST, Koh TH. Singapore Med J 2010;51(1):69
Acquired right-to-left shunt through an atrial septal perforation with cyanosis after percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy. Masakazu Nakao, Jack Kian Ch’ng, Yoong Kong Kenny Sin, Yeow Leng Chua and Chung Yin Lee. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2008; 135:690-691
A clinical approach to Medicine: Chapter 1 on Hypertension. Published by Singapore General Hospital/World Scientific. 2001
Accuracy of the automated assessment of left ventricular function with gated perfusion SPECT in the presence of perfusion defects and left ventricular dysfunction: correlation with equilibrium radionuclide ventriculography and echocardiography. T Chua, Lee CY, et al. J Nucl Cardiol 2000 Jul-Aug; 7(4): 301-11
Non-exercise stress transthoracic echocardiography: transesophageal atrial pacing versus dobutamine stress. CY Lee, et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 1999 Feb; 33(2): 506-11
Brief Report: Hypertensive response during dobutamine stress echocardiography. Am J Cardiol. Oct 1997: 970-1
Technically demanding Inoue-balloon mitral commissurotomy: broadened indications for the procedure. KW Lau, ZP Ding, CY Lee, TH Koh, W Gao, A Johan. Singapore Med J 1996 Feb; 37(1): 34-8
Percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty in mitral stenosis after previous surgical commissurotomy. CY Lee, KW Lau, ZP Ding, A Tan, TH Koh, S Quek, TS Chee, A Ng, A Johan. Singapore Med J 1995; Vol 36: 474-8
Acute Outcome of Percutaneous inoue-balloon mitral commissurotomy. KW Lau, CY Lee, ZP Ding, A Tan, C Chan, S Quek, A Johan. J Heart Valve Dis. 1994 Nov; 3 (6): 588-93.

Research Trials

Co-I for Protocol CL3-06593-006
PI - PARADIGM-HF (HF Trial) – trial completed 2014
Co-I for ARISTOTLE
Co-I for ADHF trial
Principal Investigator, Systolic Heart Failure Study
Co-Investigator for CSPA100A2306 (Hypertension) trial
Co-Investigator for PATENT Trial
Co-Investigator for Seraphin Study
Co-investigator, Altitude Study
Co-investigator, OASIS 7 trial
Co-investigator, SEPIA trial
Principal Investigator, International Study of Prediction of Intra Abdominal Adiposity and its Relationships with Cardiometabolic Risk (INSPIRE ME)
Co-investigator, Comprehensive Rimonabant Evaluation Study of Cardiovascular Endpoints and Outcomes (CRESCENDO), (Phase III trial)
Co-investigator, Study on the local reference range for N-terminal pro B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP)
Principal Investigator, Clinical Utility of Amlodipine/Atorvastatin to improve concomitant cardiovascular risk factors of hypertension and dyslipidaemia. (GEMINI trial)