Dr. Rohit Khurana
MA (Oxon), BM BCh (Oxon), PhD (Lond), FRCP (UK), FESC (Europe), FACC (USA)
Specialty services:
Cardiology
Subspecialty:
Coronary intervention – including complex procedures
Clinical interests
Dr. Khurana is a consultant cardiologist with a special interest in coronary artery disease and resistant hypertension and its treatment by catheter based interventions
Education and training
Dr. Khurana is a consultant cardiologist with a special interest in coronary artery disease and resistant hypertension and its treatment by catheter based interventions
Dr. Khurana performed his general cardiology training at several teaching hospitals in London UK, and subspecialty training in coronary intervention at Kings College Hospital, London and Vancouver General Hospital, Canada. He is an experienced interventionist routinely performing complex angioplasty, including chronic total occlusions. He received his UK Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in 2009. Dr. Khurana was appointed consultant cardiologist at the National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS) and visiting consultant to Changi General Hospital (CGH) in 2009.
With his extensive training in the UK and Canada and contributions to research, he was accepted as a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC) in 2010 and awarded Fellowship to the American College of Cardiology (FACC) in 2012. Dr. Khurana has proctored many cardiologists the surrounding region in more complex interventional techniques. He pioneered renal denervation in Singapore as a procedure to treat resistant hypertension. He continues to actively train in emerging interventional modalities to keep his practice in line with contemporary evidence-based approaches.
Research and teaching
Dr. Khurana has a strong track record in both basic and clinical and research. He has presented his work, winning Young Investigator awards and in 2001 was a recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship, which allowed him to undertake 18 months of his research at Dartmouth College, USA. He has over 50 article and abstract publications in high impact peer-reviewed journals and continues to actively publish. He is regularly invited faculty at many national and international meetings and is often invited to chair sessions focused on interventional cardiology. Dr Khurana has a joint academic position as Assistant Professor at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore where he is involved in the teaching of medical students. He was formerly a member of the Research Committee for the Singapore Heart Foundation. He regularly maintains an active lecture schedule to primary care physicians and contributes annually to the College of Family Physicians cardiology program.