Dr. Tang Hak Chiaw

Dr Tang Hak Chiaw is a cardiologist at Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, Singapore.

His expertise is in echocardiography and cardiac MRI. He also treats cardiomyopathies including hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy and restrictive cardiomyopathy.

He was a former cardiologist at the National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS) and has been practising medicine for more than 20 years.

He graduated from the Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. He then did his cardiology training at NHCS. He subsequently furthered his training in the field of cardiomyopathy (heart muscle disease) and cardiac MRI at The Heart Hospital, University College London Hospitals, UK.

After returning from his training, Dr Tang started a dedicated cardiomyopathy clinic at NHCS. This clinic is currently a tertiary referral centre for cardiomyopathies in Singapore.

He was the course director of Singapore’s first cardiomyopathy conference in 2021 and a clinical assistant professor at NHCS. He was also a member of the Singapore Armed Forces’ cardiology specialist advisory board.

Le TT, Bryant JA, Ang BWY, Pua CJ, Su B, Ho PY, Lim S, Huang W, Lee PT, Tang HC, Chin CT, Tan BY, Cook SA, Chin CW.

The application of exercise stress cardiovascular magnetic resonance in patients with suspected dilated cardiomyopathy.

J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2020 Feb 3;22(1):10

Zhao X, Tan RS, Tang HC, Teo SK, Su Y, Wan M, Leng S, Zhang JM, Allen J, Kassab GS, Zhong L.

Left Ventricular Wall Stress Is Sensitive Marker of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy With Preserved Ejection Fraction.

Front Physiol. 2018 Mar 28;9:250.

Viswanathan SK, Puckelwartz MJ, Mehta A, Ramachandra CJA, Jagadeesan A, Fritsche-Danielson R, Bhat RV, Wong P, Kandoi S, Schwanekamp JA, Kuffel G, Pesce LL, Zilliox MJ, Durai UNB, Verma RS, Molokie RE, Suresh DP, Khoury PR, Thomas A, Sanagala T, Tang HC, Becker RC, Knöll R, Shim W, McNally EM, Sadayappan S.

Association of Cardiomyopathy With MYBPC3 D389V and MYBPC3Δ25bpIntronic Deletion in South Asian Descendants.

JAMA Cardiol. 2018 Jun 1;3(6):481-488.

O’Mahony, Constantinos; Jichi, Fatima; Ommen, Steve R.; Christiaans, Imke; Arbustini, Eloisa; Garcia-Pavia, Pablo; Cecchi, Franco; Olivotto, Iacopo; Kitaoka, Hiroaki; Gotsman, Israel; Carr-White, Gerald; Mogensen, Jens; Antoniades, Loizos; Mohiddin, Saidi A.; Maurer, Mathew S.; Tang, Hak Chiaw; Geske, Jeffrey B.; Siontis, Konstantinos C.; Mahmoud, Karim D.; Vermeer, Alexa; Wilde, Arthur; Favalli, Valentina; Guttmann, Oliver P.; Gallego-Delgado, Maria; Dominguez, Fernando; Tanini, Ilaria; Kubo, Toru; Keren, Andre; Bueser, Teofila; Waters, Sarah; Issa, Issa F.; Malcolmson, James; Burns, Tom; Sekhri, Neha; Hoeger, Christopher W.; Omar, Rumana Z.; Elliott, Perry M.

International External Validation Study of the 2014 European Society of Cardiology Guidelines on Sudden Cardiac Death Prevention in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (EVIDENCE-HCM) International External Validation Study of the 2014 European Society of Cardiology Guidelines on Sudden Cardiac Death Prevention in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (EVIDENCE-HCM)

Circulation, Volume 137, Number 10, 6 March 2018, pp. 1015-1023(9)

Roddy Walsh, Rachel Buchan, Alicja Wilk, Shibu John, Leanne E. Felkin, Kate L. Thomson, Tang Hak Chiaw, Calvin Chin Woon Loong, Chee Jian Pua, Claire Raphael, Sanjay Prasad, Paul J. Barton, Birgit Funke, Hugh Watkins, James S. Ware, and Stuart A. Cook

Defining the genetic architecture of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: re-evaluating the role of non-sarcomeric genes

European Heart Journal (2017) 0, 1–8

Luis R Lopes, Petros Syrris, Oliver P Guttmann, Constantinos O’Mahony, Hak Chiaw Tang, Chrysoula Dalageorgou, Sharon Jenkins, Mike Hubank, Lorenzo Monserrat, William J McKenna, Vincent Plagnol, Perry M Elliott

Novel genotype–phenotype associations demonstrated by high-throughput sequencing in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Heart 2015;101:294–301

Tang HC, Tan RS, Tan JL

An Adult with truncus arteriosus and unilateral pulmonary hypertension.

Congenital Heart Disease 2 (6), 433–437

Tang HC, Wong A, Wong P, Chua TS, Koh TH, Lim ST.

Clinical features and outcome of emergency percutaneous intervention of left main coronary artery occlusion in acute myocardial infarction.

Singapore Med J. 2007 Dec;48(12):1122-4

Tang HC, Lim ST.

Electrocardiographical case. Beware of this ECG in patients presenting with cardiogenic shock.

Singapore Med J. 2007 Aug;48(8):789-91

Kwok BW, Tang HC, Wee SL, Tai VU, Tan CG, Chua TS.

Pattern and outcome of subsidised referrals to cardiology specialist outpatient clinics.

Ann Acad Med Singapore. 2008 Feb;37(2):103-6.