Clin Assoc Prof Chow Weien

Dr Chow Weien is the current Head and Senior Consultant Cardiologist, as well as Chief Data and Digital Officer at Changi General Hospital (CGH). He sub-specialises in the use of multi-modality cardiac imaging in the diagnosis, risk stratification and management of coronary artery disease and other heart conditions. He is also a Visiting Consultant (Hyperbaric & Diving Medicine) to Singapore General Hospital and the Singapore Armed Forces.

Dr Chow completed his Bachelors in Medicine & Surgery (MBBS) from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2002 and obtained Membership of Royal Colleges of Physicians (MRCP) in 2008. He went on to complete his cardiology training in Singapore followed by further training in Nuclear Cardiology at Cedars Sinai Medical Center and Cardiac CT Angiography at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in the USA. He is also trained in Echocardiography.

As the Chief Data and Digital Officer, he champions digitalisation, drives data management and data governance, and promotes the importance of cybersecurity policies and best practices.

Prior to joining CGH, Dr Chow served in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) for more than 16 years before retiring from active military service as the Chief Naval Medical Officer and Commander, Force Medical Protection Command. He received his Hyperbaric and Diving Medicine training in the USA.

• Diplomate, Certification Board of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, USA, 2020
• INSEAD Transition to General Management Course, France/USA, 2017/18
  
• Diplomate, Certification Board of Nuclear Cardiology, USA, 2015
• Diplomate, National Board of Echocardiography, USA, 2014
  
• Specialist Accreditation in Cardiology, Singapore, 2014
  
• MMed (Internal Medicine), Singapore, 2008
  
• MRCP(UK), 2008　
  
• Designated Workplace Doctor (Compressed Air Environment), Singapore, 2003
  
• MBBS, Singapore, 2002

• Chief Data and Digital Officer, Changi General Hospital, 2023 – Present 
  
• Director, Health Systems Intelligence, Changi General Hospital, 2021 – 2023
  
• Visiting Consultant, Hyperbaric and Diving Medicine Centre, Singapore General Hospital, 2015 – Present
  
• Visiting Consultant (Hyperbaric and Diving Medicine), Singapore Armed Forces, 2020 – Present
  
• Clinical Assistant Professor, SingHealth Duke-NUS Cardiovascular Sciences Academic Clinical Programme, 2019 – Present
  
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, 2019 – Present
  
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, NTU Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, 2019 – Present
  
• Physician Faculty Member, Cardiology Residency Programme, 2019 – Present
  
• Member, Singapore Cardiac Society Chapter of Echocardiography, 2019 – Present
  
  

• Outstanding Faculty Award, Residency in SingHealth Excels (RISE), 2024
  
• Special Recognition Award, NUS Medicine Awards, 2022/2023 
  
• Healthcare Humanity Awards, 2023
• Public Administration Medal (Bronze) (COVID-19), Prime Minister's Office Singapore, 2023
  
• Superhero Award, Singapore Quality Health Service Awards, 2021 
  
• Best Team Awards, Singapore Quality Health Service Awards, 2021 
  
• Silver (Military), Public Administration Medal, 2017
  
• Overseas Service Medal, Singapore Armed Forces, 2007
  
• Medicine Scholarship, Singapore Armed Forces, 1997
  

• Multi-modality Cardiac Imaging
• Pre-participation Screening
• Preventive Cardiology
• Hyperbaric & Diving Medicine

• Co-investigator, 4D-disease outbreak surveillance system (4D-DOSS)
• Co-investigator, Use of revised ECG criteria for pre-participation cardiac screening (SAFE Study)
• Co-investigator, Investigating Cardiac Arrhythmia Study Phase III (Genetic screening for Brugada and Long QT syndrome to reduce risk of sudden cardiac death)

• Senanayake S, Kularatna S, Lee ASY, Lee A, Lau YH, Hausenloy DJ, Yeo KK, Chan MY, Wong RCC, Loh SY, Sim KLD, Weien C, Graves N. Health Services Costs of Clinical Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction in Singapore. Value Health Reg Issues. 2024 Sep 2;45:101037. doi: 10.1016/j.vhri.2024.101037
  
• Cai Y, Philip EC, Arora S, Sim JXY, Chow W, Nazeha N, Whiteley S, Tiang DC, Neo SL, Hong W, Venkatachalam I, Graves N. The attributable mortality, length of stay, and health care costs of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in Singapore. IJID Reg. 2024 Aug 21;12:100427. doi: 10.1016/j.ijregi.2024.100427
  
• Gorny AW, Prakaash S, Neo JW, Chow W, Yeo KK, Yap J, Müller-Riemenschneider F. Longitudinal change in cardiorespiratory fitness and the association with cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in young Asian men: a cohort study. BMJ Open Sport Exerc Med. 2024 Aug 7;10(3):e001986. doi: 10.1136/bmjsem-2024-001986
  
• Y Cai, EC Philips, S Arora, JXY Sim, W Chow, I Venkatachalam, N Graves. The cost-effectiveness of a real-time spatiotemporal mapping surveillance system for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus prevention. J Hosp Infect. 2023 Sep 27: S0195-6701(23)00309-2. Doi: 10.1016/j.jhin.2023.09.010
  
• F Chua, A Lam, YH Mak, ZH Lee, W Chow, VH Tan, KL Tong, BW Liew, C Yeo, WJ Loh. Undiagnosed cardiovascular risk factors including elevated lipoprotein(a) in patients with ischaemic heart disease. Front. Epidemiol. 17 July 2023. Doi:10.3389/fepid 2023.1207752
  
• Ho WHH, Lim DYZ, Thiagarajan N, Wang H, Loo WTW, Sng GGR, Lee JSW, Shen X,  Dalakoti M, Sia CH, Tan BYQ, Lim HY, Wang LK, Chow W, Chua TSJ, Lim PCY, Yeo TJ, Chong DTT. Outcomes of Investigating T Wave Inversion With Echocardiography in an Unselected Young Male Preparticipation Cohort. J Am Heart Assoc. 2023 Apr 4;12(7):e026975. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.122.026975. Epub 2023 Mar 21
• Gorny AW, Yap J, Neo JW, Chow WE, Yeo KK, Tan CS, Müller-Riemenschneider F. Cardiorespiratory fitness, body mass index, cardiovascular disease, and mortality in young men: A cohort study. Front Public Health. 2023 Feb 15;11:1076065. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1076065
  
• Daniel Y. Z. Lim, Wilbert H. H. Ho, Luokai Wang, Wee Kiat Ang, Nishanth Thiagarajan,Gerald GR Sng, Hankun Wang, Wesley TW Loo, Lim Huai Yang, Weien Chow, Terrance J Chua, Tee Joo Yeo, Paul Lim, Thuan Tee Daniel Chong. Wolff-Parkinson-White Presenting as QRS Alternans and Other Differential Diagnoses in a Large Pre-Participation ECG Screening Cohort 2022. Arq Bras Cardiol. 2022. doi: 10.36660/abc.20220081
  
• Weien Chow, Colin Yeo, Vern Hsen Tan. Wide complex tachycardias detected by Smartwatch. What is the Diagnosis? SMJ
• Chee Yong N, Wenxiang Y, Siang Chew C, Weien C, Roy D. An uncommon cause of recurrent dialysis catheter-related bacteremia. Cureus. 2021 Nov 2;13(11):e19220. doi: 10.7759/cureus.19220. eCollection 2021 Nov. PMID: 34877201
  
• Edwin Philip, Jean Xiang Ying Sim, Sean Whiteley, Andrew Hao Sen Fang, Weien Chow, Esther Lee, Jiunn Kee Lee, Low Seng Kee, Joseph Kin Meng Cheong, Shalvi Arora. 3D-DOSS – Using digital twins and spatiotemporal data mapping for infectious disease surveillance and outbreak investigations, Infectious Disease Week 2021. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 8, Issue Supplement_1, November 2021, Page S298,
  
• Liow MHL, Lee LC, Tan NCK, Tan HK, Chow W, Wee GLE, Wong SH, Paramasivam J, Tan K, Ling ML. Personal protective equipment training for non-healthcare workers in the Covid-19 pandemic. Effectivenss of an evidence-based skills training framework. Infect Dis Health. 2022 Feb;27(1):38-48. doi: 10.1016/j.idh.2021.09.040. Epub 2021 Oct 7
• Daniel YZ Lim, Gerald Sng, Wilbert HH Ho, Wang Hankun, Ching-Hui Sia, Joshua SW Lee, Xiayan Shen, Benjamin YQ Tan, Edward CY Lee, Mayank Dalakoti, Wang Kang Jie, Clarence KW Kwan, Weien Chow, Ru San Tan, Carolyn SP Lam, Terrance SJ Chua, Tee Joo Yeo, Daniel TT Chong. Machine learning versus classical electrocardiographic criteria for echocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy in a pre-participation cohort. Kcardiol Pol 2021; 79(6): 654-661
• Weien Chow, Elaine LuM, Arif Tyebally, Sze Ling Chan, Lai Chee Lee, Moi Lin Ling, Hiang Khoon Tan, Nigel CK Tan. The art and science of achieving zero COVID-19 transmissions in staff at a large community care facility in Singapore using implementation science: a retrospective analysis. F1000 Research 2021; 10:212
• Kaisin Yee, Hui Peng Peh, Yee Pin Tan, Irene Teo, Emily U Tong Tan, Justin Paul, Mahalakshmi Rangabashyam, Mothi Babu Ramalingam, Weien Chow, Hiang Khoon Tan. Stressors and coping strategies of migrant workers diagnosed with COVID-19 in Singapore: a qualitative study. BMJ Open 2021; 11
• Xiayan Shen, Benjamin Tan, Ching-Hui Sia, Joshua Shao Wen Lee, Mayank Dalakoti, Kangjie Wang, Daniel Yan Zheng Lim, Gerald Sng, Edward Lee, Weien Chow, Clarence Kah Wai Kwan, Luo Kai Wang, Boon Yew Tan, Paul Chun Yih Lim, Kelvin Chi Ming Chua, Kah Leng Ho, Eric Lim, Chi Keong Ching, Wee Siong Teo, Terrance Chua, Ru-San Tan, Tee Joo Yeo, and Daniel Chong. Prevalence of Brugada Syndrome in a Large Singaporean Young Male Population. Circulation. 2020 Jan 14;141(2):155-157
• A population-wide study of electrocardiographic (ECG) norms and the effect of demographic and anthropometric factors on selected ECG characteristics in young, Southeast Asian males – results from the Singapore Armed Forces ECG (SAFE) Study. Sia CH, Dalakoti M, Tan BYQ, Lee ECY, Shen X, Wang K, Lee JS, Arulanandam S, Chow W, Yeo TJ, Yeo KK, Chua TSJ, Tan RS, Lam CSP, Chong DTT. Ann Noninvasive Electrocardiol. 2019 May; 24(3)
• A novel three base-pair deletion in domain two of the cardiac sodium channel causes Brugada syndrome. Tan BY, Wang L, Uttamchandani M, Barajas-Martinez H, Dumaine R, Morin N, Ching CK, Ho KL, Chong DTT, Chow W, Yap EPH, Moochhala S, Hu D, Yong RYY, Teo WS. J Electrocardiol. 2018 Jul-Aug;51(4):667-673
• Swimming-induced pulmonary edema in a tropical climate: a case report. Kwek W, Seah M, Chow W. UHM 2017 Vol 44(3):293-296
• A Brugada syndrome proband with compound heterozygote SCN5A mutations identified from a Chinese family in Singapore. Tan BY, Yong RY, Barajas-Martinez H, Dumaine R, Chew YX, Wasan PS, Ching CK, Ho KL, Gan LS, Morin N, Chong AP, Yap SH, Neo JL, Yap EP, Moochhala S, Chong DT, Chow W, Seow SC, Hu D, Uttamchandani M, Teo WS. Europace. 2016 Jun;18(6):897-904
• Challenges of Forward Naval Surgical Support for Maritime Forces. Chong SJ, Jiang L, Chow W. Mil Med 2015 Aug; Vol 180(8): 888-891
• MRI in spinal cord decompression sickness. J Med Imaging Radiat Oncol. Hennedige T, Chow W, Ng YY, Chung-Tsing GC, Lim TC, Kei PL. 2012 Jun;56(3):282-8