DR. TAN YONG SENG
Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeon
MBBS (Singapore), FRCS (Edinburgh), FAMS (Cardiothoracic), FICS (USA) FACC (USA)

Dr. Tan Yong Seng is a Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeon at the Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre and Gleneagles Medical Centre. He was previously Director of the Heart Lung Transplant Program at the National Heart Centre, a Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at the National Heart Centre, a Visiting Consultant to the National University Hospital, and a Visiting Consultant to the Tan Tock Seng Hospital. He is also a Visiting Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University.

He received his MBBS from the National University of Singapore (1984) with distinctions in Biochemistry and Microbiology, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh) (1988), the Academy of Medicine, Singapore (1995), the International College of Surgeons (USA) (2006) and the American College of Cardiology (2006). Dr. Tan also was a Clinical Fellow in Cardiovascular Surgery at the Mayo Clinic, USA (1992) and at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, USA (1993).

Dr. Tan has extensive experience in adult cardiac surgery including coronary artery bypass surgery, mitral and aortic valve surgery, surgery for aortic aneurysm, heart transplants, various heart assist devices, and heart failure surgery. In addition he also performs general thoracic and vascular surgery.

He has published extensively in peer-reviewed local and international journals and has spoken at conferences in China, Malaysia, Thailand and USA.

His research interests include haemostatic genes in coronary heart diseases, design of a control strategy for postoperative hypertension and the design and assessment of a new sleeve technique for minimally invasive coronary artery bypassing grafting.

Besides being a heart surgeon, Dr Tan is also a strong advocate for the 3 “P” Medicine. 3P Medicine is an acronym for “Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Health Care Management. Dr Tan aspires to be the doctor of the future. “The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease?”

Dr Tan is also a board member of Singapore Heart Foundation. He is frequently invited to give Heart Health Talk to general public, senior citizens and many corporate organizations in Singapore.

In addition to his busy clinical workload, Dr Tan is also actively involved in community events and currently serves as a member with Whampoa Citizen’s Consultative Committee. He is also a leader of Whampoa Community Health Subgroup.