Chief Executive Officer & Senior Consultant
Cardiology
Academic Chair
Clinical Professor Yeo Khung Keong is the Chief Executive Officer and a Senior Consultant with the Department of Cardiology at the National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS). He also serves as Academic Chair of the SingHealth Duke-NUS Cardiovascular Sciences Academic Clinical Programme and Deputy Co-Chair of the Academic Medicine Innovation Institute (AMII) Executive Committee. In addition, he is Advisor to the AMII Emerging Technologies and Data Priority Area. His clinical expertise lies in transcatheter interventions for mitral and tricuspid valve disease and in the management of calcific coronary artery disease.
Prof Yeo is the Principal Investigator of SingCLOUD, Singapore’s national registry for patients with coronary artery disease and heart failure, and SingHEART, a prospective population cohort study of healthy individuals incorporating deep phenotyping and whole-genome sequencing. He has also led and contributed to major healthcare transformation initiatives, including the Future Outpatient Journey programme.
Beyond his institutional roles, Prof Yeo contributes actively to professional societies and international cardiovascular initiatives. He is Vice President of the College of Physicians Council at the Academy of Medicine, Singapore (AMS), and Vice President (Zone 2) on the Executive Council of the Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology (APSC). He is the founding and current Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology. Prof Yeo is also Course Director of the Singapore LIVE course, Asia-Pacific’s premier annual live course in cardiac interventions, and serves as a Commissioner on the Lancet Commission on Tackling Cardiovascular Disease in the Asia-Pacific Region. His previous leadership roles include Chair of the APSC Scientific Advisory Board, Chair of the Chapter of Cardiologists at AMS, and Council Member of the Singapore Cardiac Society.
Prof Yeo graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1997 with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS). He subsequently trained in the United States, where he obtained American Board of Internal Medicine certifications in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine, and Interventional Cardiology. In 2018, he completed an Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) at INSEAD.