Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School

Senior Consultant Cardiologist, National Heart Centre Singapore

Dr Lam’s clinical sub-specialty is heart failure and is recognized globally for expertise in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, as well as women’s heart disease, clinical trials, echocardiography and biomarkers.  She is a recipient of the NMRC Senior Investigator Clinician Scientist Award; Programme Lead of A*STaR’s Asian neTwork for Translational Research and Cardiovascular Trials (ATTRaCT); Principal Investigator of a multinational Asian study of heart failure across 11 Asian countries (Asian Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure [ASIAN-HF]) and a multinational investigator-led trial in diabetes (Asian Diabetes Outcomes Prevention Trial [ADOPT]). She is a fellow of multiple societies (European Society of Cardiology, American College of Cardiology, Academy of Medicine Singapore) and serves in numerous global organizations (ESC Global Affairs Committee, Heart Failure Association, International Federation of Clinical Chemistry & Laboratory Medicine, World Heart Federation, Worldwide Diabetes Foundation) and on guidelines committees (local/international). She also serves on the Executive Committees of several global heart failure trials, on Pharma advisory boards, and as Associate Editor for Circulation and the European Journal of Heart Failure. She has published >200 articles in journals including BMJ, NEJM, JAMA, Lancet, Circulation, and European Heart Journal. Dr Lam was the Resident Doctor of the health programme “Body and Soul” by MediaCorp Singapore for 7 seasons and can be heard weekly on the worldwide podcast “Circulation On The Run”