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Assistant Professor Chester Drum

National University of Singapore, Assistant Prof.
National University Hospital, Consultant
Faculty, Department of Surgery
Faculty, Department of Biochemistry
Faculty, N.1 institute for Health Informatics
Associate Faculty, NUHS Research Residency Program [RRP]
Faculty, Graduate School for Integrative Sciences & Engineering Scholarship (NGSS)

Qualification:
Ph.D. (Neurobiology), University of Chicago
M.D., University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine
B.A., University of Chicago

BIO

Chester Drum, M.D. Ph.D., is a consultant cardiologist at the National University Hospital and an Asst. Prof. at the National University of Singapore. He is a Singapore permanent resident and currently maintains both internal medicine and cardiology board certifications in the US and Singapore. Dr. Drum received an M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He was trained in medicine at the University of California, San Diego and as a cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Harvard Medical School), in Boston. He then moved to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he received the Burroughs Wellcome Career Award for Medical Scientists. In Singapore, he has been a recipient of a Clinician Scientist Award from the NMRC, funding from the A*STAR, BMRC and multiple innovation awards from the Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART).

 

At National University Hospital in Singapore, Dr. Drum has continued his passion for combining clinical care with technological innovation to create value for patients. Drawing on his over 20 years of clinical experience in managed care, private, public and academic healthcare settings in the US and Asia, Dr. Drum’s current research combines the use of advanced analytics and clinical phenotyping to create novel ways of predicting risk and benefit for patient care. Dr. Drum has multiple patents and oversees a large research facility and analytics unit at NUH. His current efforts are focused on the implementation of cost-beneficial precision medicine within NUH through the combination of information technology and advanced risk prediction models. Dr. Drum is a member of the Clinical Adoption Working Group (CAWG) for Precision Medicine at the Ministry of Health and a member of the International Standards Organization (Cat A Liaison – ISO 215, Health Informatics)in addition to being an expert advisor to the World Health Organization. Dr. Drum’s publications include contributions to the journals Nature, Nature Communications, Journal of the American Heart Association, PNAS and Small in addition to featured editorial content in Science Translational Medicine. 

GROUP MEMBERS

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Wu Lik Hang
Eugene Goh
Eugene Goh
Xu Lik Lam
Xu Lik Lam
Samira Sadeghi
Samira Sadeghi
Racell Solis
Racell Solis
Siddhesh Vaidya
Siddhesh Vaidya
Desai Malan Manish (Priya)
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Dr Ng Mei Li
Dr Ng Mei Li
Dr. Girish Vallerinteavide Mavelli
Dr. Girish Vallerinteavide Mavelli
Dr Leroy Pakkiri
Dr Leroy Pakkiri

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