Dr Lim Choon Pin
Cardiologist
Specialty
Cardiology
Languages
English, Hokkien, Mandarin, Teochew
Gender
Male
Insurance Panel
Great Eastern, Prudential^, Singlife, AIA, HSBC Life, Income
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Experience
Dr Lim Choon Pin is a cardiologist at Mount Elizabeth Hospitals, Singapore.
He is experienced in managing and treating advanced heart failure patients on ventricular assist devices, as well as patients with conditions like coronary artery disease, heart valve diseases and heart rhythm disease.
His subspecialty and research interests include advanced heart failure, heart transplantation, mechanical circulatory support devices and advanced echocardiography (including transoesophageal echocardiography).
He completed his clinical fellowship in advanced heart failure at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, Australia in 2013 under the Ministry of Health’s Human Manpower Development Programme scholarship. He also received his accreditation in adult transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography by the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging in 2013.
Prior to joining private practice, Dr Lim worked as a full-time consultant cardiologist from 2012 – 2018. He is also currently a visiting consultant at the National Heart Centre Singapore.
Dr Lim was an adjunct assistant professor at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School and Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at NUS. He was also an examiner in the final-year medical examinations for both medical schools in 2017 and 2018. He was involved in postgraduate training as a clinical physician faculty member for SingHealth’s internal residency programme, and clinical core faculty member for SingHealth’s cardiology senior residency programme.
He is currently a council member of the Heart Failure Society in Singapore, and a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, European Society of Cardiology, and Academy of Medicine, Singapore.
Associated treatments
- Coronary angiography
- Percutaneous myocardial biopsy
- Echocardiography
- Transoesophageal 2D echocardiography (interpretation) (TEE)
- Cardiac catheterisation
Awards and honours
2016
Singapore Health Quality Service Award - Star2015
Singapore Health Quality Service Award - Gold
Residency in SingHealth Excels (RiSE) Award, Outstanding Faculty Award2011
Singapore Health Quality Service Award - Bronze
Fellowship and accreditation
- Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, Singapore
- Master of Medicine (Internal Medicine)
- Member of the Royal College of Physicians, UK
- Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore
- Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology
- Fellow of the American College of Cardiology
Contact Our Call Centre
Clinic
The Heart & Vascular Centre (Novena)
38 Irrawaddy Road #09-21
Mount Elizabeth Novena Specialist Centre
SG 329563
Mount Elizabeth Novena Specialist Centre
SG 329563
6694 0150
The Heart And Vascular Centre
3 Mount Elizabeth #08-06
Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre
SG 228510
Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre
SG 228510
6735 3021
The Heart & Vascular Centre (Gleneagles)
6 Napier Road #09-02/03
Gleneagles Medical Centre
SG 258499
Gleneagles Medical Centre
SG 258499
6539 9315
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