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MBBS, MRCP, MS
Consultant, Cardiac Department, NUHCS
Assistant Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS
Programme Director, Women's Heart Health Clinic, NUHCS |
A/Prof Carolyn Lam is presently a Consultant at the National University Heart Centre, Singapore. Her concurrent appointments are Assistant Professor at the Department of Internal Medicine, National University of Singapore and Programme Director for Women's Heart Health in NUHCS.
A/Prof Carolyn Lam graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore in 1998 and did her Cardiology Fellowship at the Cardiac Department of NUH from 2001-2004. Following that, she went on to Mayo Clinic and pursued her Research Fellowship at the Cardiorenal Laboratory, Heart Failure Fellowship at the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, and Advanced Cardiology and Master of Biomedical Sciences.
Specialty Interest(s):
- Heart Failure
- Heart Disease in women
- Echocardiography
- Clinical Trials
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Awards & Honors
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European Society of Cardiology Moderated Poster Award Winner, 2010
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National Medical Research Council Clinician Scientist Award, 2010
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Evans Department of Medicine Research Days, Boston University School of Medicine (3rd Prize for Clinical/Patient Based Research), 2009
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American Heart Association Women in Cardiology Trainee Award for Excellence, 2008
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Jay N Cohn New Investigator Clinical/ Integrative Physiology Award Competition (First prize), 2006
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Singapore Cardiac Society Young Investigator Award (First prize), 2004
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4th Annual International Poster Competition, American College of Physicians/ American Society of Internal Medicine, San Diego (Finalist), 2003
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Society of Infectious Disease (Singapore) Award for the 7th Western Pacific Congress of Chemotherapy and Infectious Diseases, 2000
Professional Memberships
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Member, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh
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Member, Singapore Cardiac Society, Singapore
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Member, American Heart Association
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Member, Faculty of 1000 Medicine
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Member, CardioExchange from The New England Journal of Medicine
Publications:
1. Aortic Root Remodeling Over the Adult Life Course: Longitudinal Data from the Framingham Heart Study. Carolyn S.P. Lam, Vanessa Xanthakis, Lisa M. Sullivan, Wolfgang Lieb, Jayashri Aragam, Margaret M. Redfield, Gary F. Mitchell, Emelia J. Benjamin, Ramachandran S. Vasan. Circulation. 2010 Aug 16.
2. Familial Aggregation of Left Ventricular Geometry and Association with Parental Heart Failure: The Framingham Heart Study. Carolyn S.P. Lam, Xuan Liu, Qiong Yang, Martin G. Larson, Michael J. Pencina, Jayashri Aragam, Margaret M. Redfield, Emilia J. Benjamin, Ramachandran S. Vasan . Circulation Genetics 2010;3:492-8
3. Epidemiology and Clinical Course of Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (Invited Review). Carolyn S.P. Lam, Erwan Donal, Elisabeth Kraigher-Krainer, Ramachandran S. Vasan. Eur J Heart Fail. 2011;13:18-28.
4. Heart Failure Risk: Lessons from the Family (Invited Commentary). Carolyn S.P. Lam, Ramachandran S. Vasan. Congest Heart Fail 2010;16:139-40.
5. Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: Invasive Solution to Diagnostic Confusion? Carolyn S.P. Lam. J Am Coll Cardiol 2010;55:1711-2.
Read more of her publications and abstracts here .
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