Health Seminars
& Healthy Cooking Class
Join Us on 16th July 2011
Date : 16 July 2011
Venue : Suntec City Level 3 The Rock
Time : 2.45pm to 4.15pm
3pm
Nutrition Talk by Dr. Tan Yong Seng, Heart Specialist (1hr)
about CQ 10
Talk – Nutrition for the heart
Dr. Tan Yong Seng is a Consultant Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeon
practicing at both the Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre and Gleneagles
Medical Centre. He was the former Director of Heart Transplant at the
National Heart Centre and a Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at
the National Heart Centre.
He is currently a Visiting Consultant to National Heart Centre and 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. He was awarded
Gibbs Gold Medal for his undergraduate medical studies.
He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh)in 1988,
the Academy of Medicine, Singapore (1995), the International College of
Surgeons (USA) (2006) and the American College of Cardiology (2006).
Dr. Tan spent two years in world renowned heart centres for his
advanced training in heart and lung surgery. He was a Clinical Fellow
in Cardiovascular Surgery at both Mayo Clinic, USA (1992) and at
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, USA (1993).
Dr. Tan has extensive experience in heart surgery. He has helped many
patients with heart diseases. He does both on pump and off pump
coronary artery bypass surgery He does minimally invasive surgery. In
addition he also perform mitral, aortic & tricuspid valve repair
and replacement surgery, surgery for aortic aneurysm, heart
transplants, implantation of heart assist devices, and heart failure
surgery.
Besides heart operations he also performs lung operation such as lung
cancer removal, thymus surgery and varicose vein and other vascular
surgery.
Dr Tan 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 design and assessment of a new sleeve
technique for minimally invasive coronary artery bypassing grafting and
developing & evaluating new energy source for heart assist device.
Besides being a heart surgeon, Dr Tan is also a strong advocate for 3
“P” Medicine. 3P Medicine is an acronym for
“Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Health Care Management.
Dr Tan is a strong advocate in preventive medicine. He believes
strongly in controlling patients risk factors in order to avoid
dreadful complications. He gives detail patient education in disease
prevention. He also prescribes personalised health management plan for
all his patients.
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 currently the Vice Chairman of Singapore Heart
Foundation. He is frequently invited to give education talks on Heart
Health Assessment, Prevention & Treatment for both Singapore ,
overseas audiences, and many corporate organizations in Singapore such
as banks, Hewlett Packard, PUB, health insurance company etc.
Addmission Only S$10
Enquiries
or No. of people attending the talk, please contact us @ +65-6763 5277
or email to admin@verniciaclinic.com
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