About Researcher

Ms Tay Wan Ting graduated with a Bachelor of Science, with concentration in Biostatistics from the National University of Singapore and had since embarked on clinical research. At the National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS), her current research focuses on the epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases, specifically heart failure. She is particularly keen in statistical applications and methodology for elucidating phenotypic differences, ethnic differences, and clinical correlates of heart failure. She had worked with and provided statistical support for multiple large-scale registries and studies.

Education & Training

• ​Masters of Applied Statistics, Macquarie University, 2011
• Bachelor of Science (Hons), National University of Singapore, 2007

Professional Appointments & Committee Memberships

• Senior Biostatistician, National Heart Research Institute Singapore, National Heart Centre Singapore
• Senior Biostatistician, Cardiovascular Clinical Trials Data Management Centre (CVCT-DMC), National Heart Centre Singapore
• Associate, Centre for Quantitative Medicine, Duke-NUS Medical School
  

Research Interests

• Heart failure
• Statistical applications

Publications

• Regional and ethnic differences among patients with heart failure in Asia: the Asian sudden cardiac death in heart failure registry. Lam CS, Teng TK, Tay WT, Anand I, Zhang S, Shimizu W, Narasimhan C, Park SW, Yu CM, Ngarmukos T, Omar R, Reyes EB, Siswanto BB, Hung CL, Ling LH, Yap J, MacDonald M, Richards AM. Eur Heart J. 2016 Nov 1;37(41):3141-3153.
• A comprehensive population-based characterization of heart failure with mid-range ejection fraction. Koh AS, Tay WT, Teng THK, Vedin O, Benson L, Dahlstrom U, Savarese G, Lam CSP, Lund LH. Eur J Heart Fail. 2017 Dec;19(12):1624-1634. doi: 10.1002/ejhf.945. 
• Multimorbidity in patients with heart failure from 11 Asian regions: A prospective cohort study using the ASIAN-HF registry. Tromp J, Tay WT, Ouwerkerk W, Teng TK, Yap J, MacDonald MR, Leineweber K, McMurray JJV, Zile MR, Anand IS, Richards AMR, Lam CSP; ASIAN-HF authors. PLoS Med. 2018 Mar 27;15(3):e1002541. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002541. Erratum in: PLoS Med. 2018 May 25;15(5):e1002583. 
• Prescribing patterns of evidence-based heart failure pharmacotherapy and outcomes in the ASIAN-HF registry: a cohort study. Teng TK, Tromp J, Tay WT, Anand I, Ouwerkerk W, Chopra V, Wander GS, Yap JJ, MacDonald MR, Xu CF, Chia YM, Shimizu W; ASIAN-HF investigators, Richards AM, Voors A, Lam CS. Lancet Glob Health. 2018 Sep;6(9):e1008-e1018. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30306-1. 
• Post-discharge prognosis of patients admitted to hospital for heart failure by world region, and national level of income and income disparity (REPORT-HF): a cohort study. Tromp J, Bamadhaj S, Cleland JGF, Angermann CE, Dahlstrom U, Ouwerkerk W, Tay WT, Dickstein K, Ertl G, Hassanein M, Perrone SV, Ghadanfar M, Schweizer A, Obergfell A, Lam CSP, Filippatos G, Collins SP. Lancet Glob Health. 2020 Mar;8(3):e411-e422. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30004-8.