Dr Chiam Toon Lim Paul

• The Heart And Vascular Centre

  Address

  3 Mount Elizabeth #08-06
  Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre
  Singapore 228510

  Tel

  6735 3022

  Fax

  6735 3021
  
  Make an Appointment

• The Heart & Vascular Centre (Novena)

  Address

  38 Irrawaddy Road #09-21
  Mount Elizabeth Novena Specialist Centre
  Singapore 329563

  Tel

  6694 0140

  Fax

  6694 0150
  
  Make an Appointment

• Specialty

  • Cardiology

• Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, National University of Singapore 1996
  • Member of the Royal College of Physicians, United Kingdom 2001
  • Master in Medicine, National University of Singapore 2001
  • Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore
  • Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology
  • Fellow of the American College of Cardiology
  • Fellow of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions

• Languages Spoken

  • English
  • Hainanese
  • Hokkien
  • Mandarin
  • Teochew

Background

• Dr Paul Chiam is a cardiologist at Mount Elizabeth Hospitals, Singapore, subspecialising in interventional cardiology. He performed the first transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure in Asia in 2009 and currently serves as a proctor helping to train new TAVR centres across Asia. He continues to teach at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS, in his capacity as an adjunct associate professor.
• Dr Chiam graduated on the Dean’s list from the NUS Faculty of Medicine and completed his postgraduate Master of Medicine (NUS) exam where he was awarded the Gordon Ransome Gold Medal. He began his cardiology specialisation at the National Heart Centre Singapore, and was awarded a Health Manpower Development Plan (HMDP) scholarship in 2006 to subspecialise in interventional cardiology, where he trained at the renowned Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute of New York. He spent 18 months gaining hands-on experience in complex coronary angioplasty, carotid artery angioplasty and stenting, peripheral artery angioplasty, and structural heart disease (heart valve) interventions. He then spent a further 3 months training in intracranial angioplasty and stenting at the Department of Endovascular Neurosurgery, University of Buffalo, State University of New York.
• Dr Chiam returned to the National Heart Centre Singapore in 2008 as a senior consultant at the Department of Cardiology, and subsequently became the first Asian proctor for the Edwards Lifesciences TAVR programme, and also the first Asian proctor for the Medtronic CoreValve TAVR programme. He has trained and proctored new centres in South Korea, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand.
• Due to his commitment to patient care, Dr Chiam was awarded a Bronze Service Quality award in December 2009 and another Bronze Service Quality award in March 2011. At the SingLIVE Interventional Cardiology conference 2009, he was the first runner-up in the Best of Young Interventionalist case competition.
• Dr Chiam is well recognised in the field of interventional cardiology, and has been invited as a guest faculty or speaker to major international cardiovascular conferences such as the American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions, the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) (USA), EuroPCR, PCR London Valves, Complex Cardiovascular Therapeutics, Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics Asia Pacific (TCTAP) and China Interventional Therapeutics (CIT) among others. He has also been invited as a case operator to conduct workshops and to perform cases during “live transmissions” in complex coronary interventions, peripheral artery interventions and mitral valvuloplasties in Vietnam, Myanmar, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Taiwan and China.
• He has published extensively in top cardiovascular journals. In recognition of his research publications, he was appointed as an adjunct associate professor at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore. He also won the SingHealth Publish! Award in 2012 for a paper published in a major cardiovascular journal.
• He is the current secretary general of the Asian Pacific Society of Interventional Cardiology (APSIC) and the co-chair of the APSIC Scientific Committee. He is also a member of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Peripheral Vascular Disease Section Leadership Council.

Awards

• Dean's list 1995 (3rd Professional MBBS exams)
• Dean's list 1996 (Final Professional MBBS exams)
• Gordon Ransome Gold Medal 2001 (Master of Medicine exams)
• SingLIVE Conference Best of Young Interventionalist Competition, Runner up
• National Heart Centre Singapore Service Quality Award, December 2009
• National Heart Centre Singapore Service Quality Award, March 2011
• Singhealth Publish! Award 2012