Dr Gurangad Singh Chandok

About

Dr Gurangad Singh Chandok is an Associate Consultant with the Department of Internal Medicine at Changi General Hospital (CGH). He graduated with Honours from Pennsylvania State University, USA where he received his Bachelor’s in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He then earned his Doctorate in Medicine (MD) from Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore in 2015. 

Dr Chandok attained Membership of the Royal College of Physicians and completed his residency training in Internal Medicine in 2021 at SingHealth, before undertaking SingHealth’s Advanced Internal Medicine Senior Residency. He gained specialist registration and accreditation to practice in Internal Medicine in 2024. He has a special interest in Intensive Care Medicine and Critical Care.

Education and Training

• ​Specialist Accreditation (Internal Medicine), Singapore, 2024
• MRCP(UK) Specialty Certificate Examination (SCE) in Acute Medicine, 2023
• MRCP(UK), 2021 
• MMed (Internal Medicine), Singapore, 2021
• MD, Singapore, 2015
• BS (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), USA, 2009
  

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

• ​Membership of the Royal College of Physicians, 2021 – Present

Awards

• ​Outstanding Resident Award, Residency in SingHealth Excels (RiSE) Award, 2024
• Quality Improvement Project Award, Residency in SingHealth Excels (RiSE) Award, 2024
• Outstanding Faculty Award, Residency in SingHealth Excels (RiSE) Award, 2024
• Team Award, SingHealth Family Target Zero Harm Award, 2024
• The COVID-19 Resilience Medal, Prime Minister’s Office Singapore, 2023
• Duke-NUS Research Scholarship, 2013
  

Publications

• ​Abraham DM, Lee TE, Watson LJ, Mao L, Chandok G, Wang HG, Frangakis S, Pitt GS, Shah SH, Wolf MJ, Rockman HA. The two-pore domain potassium channel TREK-1 mediates cardiac fibrosis and diastolic dysfunction. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 2018;128(11):4843-4855.
• Chandok GS, Patel MP, Mirkin SM, Krasilnikova MM. Effects of Friedreich's ataxia GAA repeats on DNA replication in mammalian cells. Nucleic acids research.2012;40(9):3964-74.
• Chandok GS, Kapoor KK, Brick RM, Sidorova JM, Krasilnikova MM. A distinct first replication cycle of DNA introduced in mammalian cells. Nucleic acids research.2011;39(6):2103-15.
• Keramati AR, Sadeghpour A, Farahani MM, Chandok G, Mani A. The non-syndromic familial thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections maps to 15q21 locus. BMC medical genetics. 2010;11:143.