Dr. Chan Po Fun

Dr Chan Po Fun is a Consultant Cardiologist with Cardiac Care Partners, and a visiting consultant with National University Heart Centre.

She graduated from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore in 2009. She completed her Internal Medicine Basic Specialist Training and attained her Master of Medicine (MMed) and Membership of the Royal College of Physician (MRCP) in 2012. She furthered her training in Cardiology as a Senior Resident at the National University Hospital, and was accredited as a Specialist in Cardiology by the Ministry of Health in 2017. She was subsequently granted the Health Manpower Development Programme Award by the Ministry of Health in 2020 and 2021. She received her testamur from The National Board of Echocardiography (America) in 2023, and was made fellow, Academy of Medicine Singapore in 2024.

She was Clinical Lead for Heart Failure Services at Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, where she established a multi-disciplinary Heart Failure Team that was awarded a top Quality Improvement Project award. She was also Director of Cardiac Diagnostic Laboratory, with experience in developing and advancing value-driven services.

She is trained in echocardiography, is adept with the use of strain-imaging for detection of subclinical cardiac conditions, and is competent with 3D techniques for accurate assessment of structural heart problems.

She also has extensive experience in heart failure management, and is well-versed in haemodynamics-tailored therapy, iron-repletion, and the long-term care of heart failure patients. In addition, she is also special interests in female-centric heart conditions and cardio-oncology. She received certification of excellence in Lipidology in 2023.

Dr Chan’s friendly demeanour and sound knowledge has gained her respect and trust from many of her patients and colleagues; She was awarded the Service Ambassador Award (Silver) in 2018 and 2021.

She has also mentored medical students, junior doctors, nurses, and cardiac technicians, and was a Faculty Member of the Cardiology Senior Residency Programme at the National University Heart Centre.

Ng Teng Fong General Hospital

• Consultant Cardiologist
• Director, Cardiac Diagnostic Laboratory
• Clinical Lead, Heart Failure Services
• Lead, Congestive Heart Failure Value-Driven Outcomes
• Co-Chairperson Collaborative Prescribing Credentialing and Service Review Committees
• Champion, Advanced Care Planning

Ministry of Health

• Heart Failure Services Improvement Sub-Committee

• Effect of Surgical Mask use on Peak Physical Performance During Exercise Treadmill Testing-A Real World, Crossover Study. Dalakoti M, Long C, Bains A, Djohan A, Ahmad I, Chan SP, Kua J, Chan PF, Yeo TJ. Front Physiol. 2022 May 24;13:913974. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2022.913974. eCollection 2022.
• What is This Image; Apical Ventricular Septal Defect (Cardiovascular Imaging Case Reports, April 2022)
• Man with fever, cough and atypical chest pain. Koo CY, Chan PF, Ong HA, Kojodjojo P.J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open. 2020 Apr 17;1(3):306–8. doi: 10.1002/emp2.12076.
• Left atrial appendage mass. Chan PF, Kofidis T, Tan KB, Yip JW, Ling LH. Echocardiography. 2018 Dec;35(12):2106-2108.
• What is This Image; Transverse Sinus fat (Cardiovascular Imaging Case Reports, April 2018)
• What is This Image; Right Coronary Artery aneurysm (Cardiovascular Imaging Case Reports, June 2018)
• Sleep Patterns and Dysfunctions in Children with Learning Problems. Aishworiya R, Chan PF, Kiing JS, Chong SC, Tay SK. Ann Acad Med Singapore. 2016 Nov;45(11):507-512.
• Optimal Body Mass Index Cut-offs for Identification of Patients with Coronary Artery Disease at High Risk of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea. Chan PF, Tai BC, Loo G, Koo CY, Ong TH, Yeo TC, Lee CH. Heart Lung Circ. 2016 Aug;25(8):847-54.
• Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Cardiovascular Events After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. Lee CH, Sethi R, Li R, Ho HH, Hein T, Jim MH, Loo G, Koo CY, Gao XF, Chandra S, Yang XX, Furlan SF, Ge Z, Mundhekar A, Zhang WW, Uchôa CH, Kharwar RB, Chan PF, Chen SL, Chan MY, Richards AM, Tan HC, Ong TH, Roldan G, Tai BC, Drager LF, Zhang JJ. Circulation. 2016 May 24;133(21):2008-17.
• Fever in a Patient with a Previous Gastrectomy. Seow DG, Chan PF, Chia BL, Loh JP. Ann Acad Med Singapore. 2016 Mar;45(3):117-20.
• Echocardiographic quantification of pulmonary artery systolic pressure in ventricular septal defect: Do calculations from Doppler interrogation across tricuspid regurgitation and ventricular septal defect correlate? Panday V, Tay EL, Chan PF, Yip JW, Poh KK. Int J Cardiol. 2016 Jan 1;202:100-2.
• Spontaneous adrenal haemorrhage after catheter ablation of supraventricular tachycardia. Kristanto W, Chan PF, Yeong SS, Kojodjojo P. BMJ Case Rep. 2015 Sep 23;2015.

• Specialist accreditation in Cardiology (Ministry of Health, Singapore)
• MRCP (Royal College of Physicians, United Kingdom)
• MMED (Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore)
• MBBS (Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore)
• FAMS (Academy of Medicine, Singapore)

• Heart Failure Society (Singapore)
• Singapore Medical Association
• Association of Women Doctor (Singapore)