Dr Lim Yean Teng

Cardiologist

Specialty

Cardiology

Languages

Cantonese, English, Hokkien, Indonesian, Mandarin, Teochew

Gender

Male

Insurance Panel

AIA

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Experience

Dr Lim Yean Teng is a cardiologist practising at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore. His clinical interests include angioplasty, balloon valvuloplasty, coronary artery disease, drug-eluting stenting, hypercholesterolemia and hypertension.

He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore in 1983. After completing his training in Internal Medicine, he underwent cardiology training at the Epworth Hospital in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and Cardiac Department at the National University Hospital in Singapore. He then spent 18 months at the Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA and received further training in the field Interventional and Nuclear Cardiology.

A/Professor Lim subsequently underwent further training in Percutaneous Mitral Valvulopasty (In Kaoshiong, Taiwan) and Peripheral Intervention Fellowship at the Prairie Heart Institute in Springfield, Illinois in the United States. He is regularly invited as speaker, chairperson and moderator for major interventional meetings in the Asia-Pacific region, and has served as international faculty to major interventional meetings in Europe and the United States of America. A/Professor Lim is recognised as a key opinion leader in the field in Singapore and the region. Before joining private practice, A/Professor Lim served in public hospitals for 24 years. Apart from being a Senior Consultant Cardiologist, he was an University Academic for 17 years, and has served as Chairman of the Medical Board and Chief of the Cardiac Department at the National University Hospital and as Senior Management and Co-Director of the Heart Institute at the National Healthcare Group. He was Chairman of the National Committee for Cardiac Care and Chairman of the Specialists' Training Committee for Cardiology at the Ministry of Health in Singapore.

A/Professor Lim continues to serve on a number of important national committees. He was awarded fellowships by local, regional and international societies and colleges, which include the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, American College of Cardiology, European Society of Cardiology, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Asia-Pacific College of Cardiology, ASEAN College of Cardiology and Asia-Pacific Society of Interventional Cardiology.

Fellowship and accreditation

1983
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery - MBBS - NUS-Singapore
1987
Master of Medicine - M Med (Int Med) - NUS-Singapore
Membership of the Royal College of Physicians - MRCP, United Kingdom
1992
FAMS - Academy of Medicine, Singapore
1999
Fellow of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions - FSCAI United States
Fellow of the Royal College Of Physicians - FRCP Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Fellow of the American College of Cardiology - FACC United States
2010
Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology - FESC – European Society of Cardiology, France