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Interventional Cardiologist

Senior Consultant

MD, Post Graduation,

Singapore, Singapore

Works at National University Health System, Singapore

20 years of experience

About Dr. Chester Drum

  • Dr. Chester Drum is a skilled Interventional Cardiologist with more than 20 years of experience.
  • His areas of interest are General Cardiology, Lipid Disorders, and Preventive Cardiology Programme.
  • He is a member of the Academy of Medicine Singapore, the Singapore Cardiac Society and the Singapore Medical Association.
  • Dr. Chester Drum has completed his MD (2003) and PhD from the University of Chicago, USA.
  • He is the author of various papers and publications.
  • Dr. Chester Drum is well-versed in English.

 

Location Location

Singapore, Singapore

Special Interest

​Cardiac Genetics, General Cardiology, Lipid Disorders.

List Of Treatments

  • Arrhythmia Treatment with Ablation and Pacemakers
  • Coronary Artery Surgery
  • Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) Treatment
  • heart disease
  • Balloon Septostomy
  • Pulmonary and Mitral
  • Fetal Echocardiogram
  • Coronary Angiogram
  • PTCA-Percutaneous Transluminal
  • Coronary Angioplasty
  • Aortic Stent Grafting
  • EPS-Electrophysiological
  • Radiofrequency Ablation
  • PPI-Permanent Pacemaker Implant - Single Chamber
  • Biventricular Pacing
  • AICD
  • PTMC - Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Commissurotomy
  • Heart Surgery
  • CRT - D (MRI Compatible)
  • CRT - D (MRI Non-Compatible)
  • CRT - P
  • Transarterial Radioembolization - TARE
  • Cardiac catheterization

Work Experience of Dr. Chester Drum

Associate Professor, NUS Yong Yoo Lin School of Medicine

Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

Dr. Chester Drum's

  • MD, 2003, University of Chicago, USA
  • Post Graduation, University of Chicago, USA

- Burroughs Wellcome Career Award for Medical Scientists.

  • Anissa A. Widjaja, Jinrui Dong, Eleonora Adami, Sivakumar Viswanathan1, Benjamin Ng, Leroy S. Pakkiri, Sonia P. Chothani, Brijesh K. Singh, Wei Wen Lim, Jin Zhou, Shamini G. Shekeran, Jessie Tan, Sze Yun Lim, Joyce Goh, Mao Wang, Robert Holgate, Arron Hearn, Leanne E. Felkin, Paul M. Yen, James W. Dear, Chester L. Drum, Sebastian Schafer, Stuart A. Cook, Redefining IL11 as a regeneration-limiting hepatotoxin and therapeutic target in acetaminophen-induced liver injury, Science Translational Medicine, 2021, (in press)
  • Brandon N S Ooi, Raechell Raechell, Ariel F Ying, Yong Zher Koh, Yu Jin, Sherman W L Yee, Justin H S Lee, Samuel S Chong, Jack W C Tan, Jianjun Liu, Caroline G Lee, Chester L Drum, Robust performance of potentially functional SNPs in machine learning models for the prediction of atorvastatin-induced myalgia, Frontiers in Pharmacology, (in press)
  • James W Dear, Mei Li Ng, D Nicholas Bateman, Pakkiri Leroy, Sivappiragasam, Hyungwon Choi, Bing Jie Khoo, Baharudin Ibrahim, Chester Lee Drum, A Metabolomic Analysis of Thiol Response In Standard And Modified N-Acetyl Cysteine Treatment Regimens, Clinical and Translational Science (in press)
  • Jie Gao, Kwee Hiang Jackson Low, Yang Chen, E. Shyong Tai, Tai-Shung Chung and Chester Lee Drum, High recovery, point-of-collection plasma separation from blood using electrospun polyacrylonitrile (PAN) membranes, AIChE Journal. 2020 Oct 02. https://doi.org/10.1002/aic.17088
  • Chan MY, Efthymios M, Tan SH, Pickering JW, Troughton R, Pemberton C, Ho HH, Prabath JF, Drum CL, Ling LH, Soo WM, Chai SC, Fong A, Oon YY, Loh JP, Lee CH, Foo RSY, Ackers-Johnson MA, Pilbrow A, Richards AM. Prioritizing Candidates of Post-Myocardial Infarction Heart Failure Using Plasma Proteomics and Single-Cell Transcriptomics, Circulation. 2020 Sep 4. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.119.045158

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Frequently Asked Questions About Dr. Chester Drum

Dr. Chester Drum practices at National University Health System, Singapore

Dr. Chester Drum specialty is Interventional Cardiologist

Dr. Chester Drum is Interventional Cardiologist with 20 years of experience.

More About Interventional Cardiologist

A interventional cardiologist deals with the catheter based treatment of heart diseases which includes the diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery disease, vascular disease and acquired structural heart disease.

The patient may experience extreme fatigue, Constant dizziness, fast heart rate, irregular heartbeat, Chest pain or difficulty in breathing during regular activities.

Investigations like Electrocardiogram, Chest X-rays, Echocardiogram, Cardiac Catheterization, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), CT (Computerized Tomography), and Transesophageal Echocardiogram

An interventional cardiologists perform procedures in cath lab like Balloon angioplasty, Coronary and left ventricular digital angiography, Right and left heart catheterization, Rotational artherectomy etc and evaluate arterial blockages whereas the non-interventional cardiologists do not perform the same procedures.

Interventional cardiology treats cardiovascular disease using multiple non-surgical procedures, mostly are done in the cardiovascular (veins, heart and arteries) system.

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