Alecture and case discussion organised by Singapore’s Parkway Health in collaboration with the Sri Lanka College of Cardiology will be held in Colombo on Saturday, July 15t at Cinnamon Grand Hotel, Colombo at 8 pm followed by Fellowship Dinner.
Two exceptionally skilled cardiologists from Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth Hospital will share their expertise on Cardiothoracic care and the most recent treatment methods along with key local cardiologists.
Dr. Sivathasan Cumaraswamy, currently a Consultant of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at the Heart, Lung and Vascular Centre of Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre, Singapore, will present Advanced Heart Failure Management Strategies, while Dr. Chiam Toon Lim Paul, the Mount Elizabeth Cardiologist who performed the first transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure in Asia in 2009, will focus on Managing High Risk and High-Risk Patients: CHIP (Complex and High-Risk Coronary Intervention) and Complex Tavi (Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement).
Dr. Sivathasan also serves as Program Director of Mechanical Heart Devices and Co-Director of Heart/Lung Transplantation programs at Singapore’s National Heart Centre. A graduate of the Colombo University and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Edinburgh, and the Academy of Medicine Singapore, Dr. Sivathasan was instrumental in establishing several major programs in Singapore including Mechanical Heart Assist, the heart-lung transplant program at the National Heart Centre, Robotic cardiac surgery.
Dr. Sivathasan received The Sri Lanka Ranjana title from the President in 2019 in recognition of his contribution to science.
Dr. Paul became the Asian proctor for the Edwards Lifesciences TAVR program and the Asian proctor for the Medtronic Core Valve TAVR program in 2013.
He received the Sing Health Publish! Award in 2021 in recognition of his extensive research publications in cardiovascular journals.
The Lecture and case discussion is organised by Parkway Patient’s Assistance Centre in Colombo under the auspices of Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth Hospital in collaboration with Sri Lanka College of Cardiology.