MBBS (Singapore), MRCP (UK)
Senior Consultant
Specialty: Endocrinology
Senior Consultant
SingHealth Duke-NUS Diabetes Centre
Senior Consultant
Endocrinology
Dr Troy Puar is a Senior Consultant endocrinologist at Changi General Hospital (CGH). Dr Puar received his medical degree from the National University Singapore School of Medicine in 2005, and completed his specialist training with the Department of Endocrinology at CGH.
Dr Puar received the HMDP award in 2014 before completing a year-long fellowship at Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He has an interest in looking after patients with adrenal and resistant hypertension. He runs an Adrenal Subspecialty Clinic, and has also initiated a Resistant Hypertension Clinic in CGH.
• Principal Investigator. Identifying Curable Unilateral Disease using 11C-MEtomidate PET-CT in Primary Aldosteronism (CURE_PA)
• Principal Investigator. CGH Research Grant. Prospective Study Assessing Blood Pressure, Cardiovascular and Other Outcomes Post-Surgical and Medical Treatment in Patients with Primary Aldosteronism (PACES _PA)
• TH Puar, JJ Khoo, KS Ng, JW Kam, KW Wang. Correspondence on Adrenal Vein sampling versus CT scan to determine treatment in primary aldosteronism (SPARTACUS study). The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology 2016 Nov; 4(11):885-886
• TH Puar, M Engels, A Herwaarden, F Sweep, C Hulsbergen, K Kamphuis, V Chortis, W Arlt, N Stikkelbroeck, H Claahsen-van der Grinten, A Hermus. Bilateral testicular tumors resulting in recurrent Cushing’s syndrome after bilateral adrenalectomy. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2017 Feb 1;102(2):339-344
• Perez-Rivas LG, Theodoropoulou M, Troy Puar, Fazel J, Stieg MR, Gerrau F, et al. Somatic USP8 mutations are frequent events in corticotroph tumor progression causing Nelson’s tumor. Eur J Endocrinol 2017 Oct
• TH Puar, A Berkel, M Gotthardt, B Havekes, A Hermus, J Lenders, W Lichtenbelt, Y Xu, B Brans, H Timmers Genotype-dependent Brown Adipose Tissue Activation in Patients with Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2016 Jan;101(1):224-32.
• TH Puar, Mok Y, Debajyoti R, Khoo J, How CH, Ng AK Secondary Secondary Hypertension in adults, CME Article. Singapore Med J 2016 May; 57(5):228-232
• Chandran M, Tay D, Tan M, Hao Y, Huang XF, Khoo J, TH Puar. Axial BMD in Diabetics and Non-Diabetics with Hip fractures. Do Race and Body Mass Index Matter? A Study in South-East Asians. Endocrine Practice 2016 Jun;22(6):716-25 • TH Puar, N Stikkelbroeck, L Smans, P Zelissen, Ad Hermus Adrenal Crisis: still a deadly event in the 21st Century. Am J Med. 2016 Mar; 129(3):339.e1-9.
• Quah CH, Ng JM, TH Puar. Does Occupational Driving Increase the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in People with Diabetes? Diabetes Res Clin Pract 99: e9-e11, Jan 2013
• TH Puar, Khoo JJ, Cho LW, Xu Y, Chen YT, Chuo AM, Poh CB, B Ng Association between glycemic control and hip fracture. J Am Geriatr Soc 60:1493-1497, Aug 2012
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