Biography：
Associate Professor Chia Yew Woon is a Senior Consultant Cardiologist and Intensivist and Director of the
Cardiac Intensive Care Unit in Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore. He is one of the few physicians who are
dually trained and accredited in both Cardiology and Intensive Care Medicine, having completed his
fellowship in The Alfred Hospital Intensive Care Unit, a quaternary referral centre in Australia.
He has a strong interest in haemodynamic monitoring, mechanical circulatory support, post-cardiac arrest
management and critical care ultrasonography, in which he has been leading educational efforts both locally
and in the region. He is also the Singapore National Investigator for a number of multi-centre trials in Cardiac
Critical Care. On the educational front, he is the coordinator for undergraduate medical education in
Cardiology and also serves in the Internal Medicine Residency Programme, Cardiology Senior Residency
Programme and Intensive Care Medicine Subspecialty Training Committee for post-graduate medical training
and has been awarded the Best Teacher and Top Ten Teacher Awards on many occasions.
He is currently Chair of the Singapore National Post-Cardiac Arrest and Survivorship (PCAS) Workgroup,
President of the Society of Intensive Care Medicine (Singapore), Board Member of the Chapter of Intensivists
in the Academy of Medicine, Singapore and Adjunct Associate Professor with the National University of
Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.