Dr. Stanley Chia

Dr Stanley Chia is an experienced Cardiologist and Physician. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh Medical School, United Kingdom, obtaining the degrees of MB ChB with honors.

He undertook postgraduate medical training at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and was accepted as a Member of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh in 2000.  He was awarded the British Heart Foundation Junior Research Fellowship to conduct research on inflammation in cardiovascular disease, and was conferred the degree of Doctor of Medicine by the University of Edinburgh in 2006.

Dr Chia completed his cardiology specialty training in Singapore and has been certified as a Specialist in Cardiology since 2006.  He also underwent further specialized two-year fellowship training in Interventional Cardiology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, United States of America.  He was formerly Senior Consultant Cardiologist at National Heart Centre Singapore and Clinical Senior Lecturer at National University of Singapore.

His main clinical expertise is in management of coronary artery disease, complex coronary intervention, and coronary imaging.

• Specialised in interventional cardiology
• Trained in intravascular imaging, optical coherence tomography imaging, rotablation and complex bifurcation intervention techniques.
• Experienced in managing complex coronary artery disease and difficult coronary interventional procedures such as left main disease, chronic total occlusions and calcified lesions.

1. Stanley Chia, Fred Senatore, O. Christopher Raffel, Hang Lee, Frans J. Th. Wackers, and Ik-Kyung Jang. Utility of Cardiac Biomarkers in Predicting Infarct Size, Left Ventricular Function, and Clinical Outcome After Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction. J Am Coll Cardiol Intv. 2008 Aug, 1 (4) 415–423
2. Stanley Chia, Motaz Qadan, Richard Newton, Christopher A. Ludlam, Keith A. Fox, and David E. Newby. Tumor necrosis factor-a impairs endothelium-dependent vasodilatation and stimulates local tissue plasminogen activator release in humans: Diverse vascular actions of a pleiotropic cytokine. The American College Of Cardiology 52nd Annual Scientific Session, March 30–April 2, 2003, Chicago, Illinois Vascular Disease, Hypertension, And Prevention
3. Huilin Koh, Swee Yaw Tan, Nadira Hamid, Terrance Chua, John Allen, Rachel Ng, Felix Keng, Foong Koon Cheah, and Stanley Chia. THE ABSENCE OF SEVERE CORONARY STENOSIS (≥70%) ON CORONARY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY RELIABLY EXCLUDES MODERATE TO SEVERE ISCHEMIA ON MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING. JACC. 2012 Mar, 59 (13_Supplement) E1334

Performed more than 5,000 invasive coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention procedures