Background

• Adjunct associate professor yang sudah berpengalaman di bidangnya.
• Lulusan training dari Western Infirmary, Glasgow, UK.
• Keahlian khusus pada cardiac imaging, complex heart failure cases and inherited cardiomyopathies, including those requiring device and cardiac transplantation.
• Dr Ross Macdonald has a subspecialty interest in cardiac imaging, and is experienced in managing complex heart failure cases and inherited cardiomyopathies, including those requiring device and cardiac transplantation.
• He received his Certificate of Completion of Training in 2013 and was appointed as consultant cardiologist at Western Infirmary, Glasgow, UK.
• He undertook a 3-year fellowship at the Scottish National Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Unit at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital, UK, where he also completed a second research degree on the relationship between diabetes and heart failure.
• For his extensive training and contributions to teaching and research in cardiology and heart failure, Dr Macdonald was elected as a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 2004, and a fellow of the European Society of Cardiology in 2010.
• Prior to joining private practice, Dr Macdonald was a cardiologist at Changi General Hospital in Singapore from 2015 – 2019, where he was integral in the development of their heart failure and cardiac imaging services.
• He was also a former cardiologist at Greater Glasgow and Clyde at the General Cardiology and Inherited Cardiac Conditions Service.
• In 2019, Dr Macdonald was appointed as an adjunct associate professor at Duke-NUS Medical School, where he teaches medical undergraduates.
• He has a strong track record in basic, epidemiological and clinical research, and his primary research interest is in the relationship between diabetes and heart failure.
• He has published extensively in leading journals and is a reviewer for high-impact journals including the Lancet and the European Heart Journal, and regularly sits on committees for international large-scale randomised controlled trials.