Bernard KWOK
Cardiologist, Bernard Kwok Cardiology Clinic, Farrer Park Hospital
Visiting Consultant, National Heart Centre Singapore
Clinical Senior Lecturer, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singapore
SingaporeDr. Kwok established the Singapore's first multi-disciplinary Heart Failure Programme at the National Heart Centre of Singapore. He was the Director of the Programme, and continues to care for patients with advanced heart failure and heart transplant recipients as a Visiting Consultant at the National Heart Centre Singapore. With a strong interest in exercise physiology, he is an Exercise Specialist accredited by American College of Sports Medicine.
Dr Kwok is a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore. He is a Past-Governor of the Singapore Chapter of the American College of Cardiology, and a Past President of the Singapore Cardiac Society. He is the founding President of the Heart Failure Society (Singapore). He is effectively bilingual in English and Chinese, and is conversant in spoken Bahasa. In addition, he speaks 3 dialects fluently (Cantonese, Hokkien & Teochew).
Dr. Bernard Kwok obtained his basic medical degree from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1990. He further qualified in internal medicine with Master of Medicine from NUS. He became a Member of the Royal College of Physician (UK), after qualifying with a diploma from the Royal College in Edinburgh, Scotland. He trained in cardiology at the National University Hospital in Singapore, and completed a fellowship in Heart Failure & Heart Transplantation at Stanford University School of Medicine in USA. He is Singapore's first qualified transplant cardiologist.