Discussion on Advanced  Heart failure management

A lecture and case discussion in collaboration with Sri Lanka College of Cardiology on advanced heart failure management took place last Saturday, at Cinnamon Grand Hotel, Colombo followed by a Fellowship dinner.

There were many doctors and surgeons from Sri Lanka were present. Dr Rajitha Y de Silva, Cardiothoracic surgeon Jayawardapura hospital presided.

Dr. Sivathasan Cumaraswamy, currently a Consultant of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at the Heart, Lung and Vascular Centre of Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre, Singapore, spoke about Advanced Heart Failure Management Dr. Paul became the Asian proctor for the Edwards Lifesciences TAVR programme and the Asian proctor for the Medtronic Core Valve TAVR programme in 2013

Organized by Singapore’s Parkway Health in collaboration with the Sri Lanka College of Cardiology two exceptionally skilled cardiologists from Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth Hospital shared their expertise on Cardiothoracic care and the most recent treatment methods.

Dr. Sivathasan Cumaraswamy, spoke on Advanced Heart Failure Management Strategies, while Dr. Chiam Toon Lim Paul, the Mount Elizabeth Cardiologist who performed the first transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure in Asia in 2009, focussed on Managing High Risk and High-Risk Patients: CHIP (Complex and High-Risk Coronary Intervention) and Complex Tavi (Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement).

Dr. Sivathasan also serves as Programme Director of Mechanical Heart Devices and Co-Director of Heart/Lung Transplantation programmes at Singapore’s National Heart Centre. A graduate of the Colombo University and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Edinburgh, and the Academy of Medicine Singapore, Dr. Sivathasan was instrumental in establishing several major programmes in Singapore including Mechanical Heart Assist, the heart-lung transplant programme at the National Heart Centre, Robotic cardiac surgery.

Dr. Sivathasan received The Sri Lanka Ranjana title from the President of Sri Lanka in 2019 in recognition of his contribution to science.

Dr. Paul became the Asian proctor for the Edwards Lifesciences TAVR programme and the Asian proctor for the Medtronic Core Valve TAVR programme in 2013. He received the Sing Health Publish Award in 2021 in recognition of his extensive research publications in cardiovascular journals.