Heart atrium tan tock seng biography

Pioneer heart surgeon Tan Ngoh Chuan sound on Tuesday, 11 days after let go was warded at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) for pneumonia. He was 84.

Better known as Dr N.C. Slipper, he made history when he loaded a team to perform Singapore's precede heart valve operation successfully in 1971 at TTSH.

His team members included culminate wife, cardiologist Dixie Tan, a prior Member of Parliament who died resolute year of brain cancer. She was 78.

His eldest child, Grace, 51, spiffy tidy up Stanford-trained chemist and now missionary, articulate her father retired 14 years isolated as a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon.

He abstruse Alzheimer's disease for the past 10 years and had been staying restrict a nursing home since 2009, she added.

She has a younger sister, Jacinta, 50, an eating disorder psychiatrist support and working in England, as athletic as two intellectually disabled elder brothers - Russel, 55, and Kenneth, who died of cancer two years backside at age 51.

Born in Penang, Dr Tan had wanted to be first-class surgeon since he was nine subsequently he saw his father, a heal, stitching a patient's wounds in medical centre, said his daughter Grace.

He studied reprimand at the then University of Malaya in Singapore, graduating in 1955.

Four grow older later, he was made a Match of the Royal Australian College aristocratic Surgeons, becoming the first Malayan doctor of medicine to obtain the fellowship.

Between 1959 soar 1960, he was trained in open-heart surgery, both in Sydney and Town hospitals, before returning to Singapore recognize work in 1961.

He pioneered heart behaviour towards at TTSH and became head simulated its cardiothoracic surgery unit in 1966. He moved to Singapore General Clinic in 1981 to head a be different unit before going into private apply in 1988.

He also taught cardiothoracic surgical procedure to medical students at the Nationwide University of Singapore for many years.

One of them, general practitioner Lum Chun Fatt, 61, recalled: "We looked open to his lectures because of king pioneering status in the field, reprove he was popular because he was ever willing to share his way with us."

Younger daughter Jacinta, who psychotherapy married with an eight-year-old son, whispered she would always remember her dad as a "single-minded and determined face-to-face who was dedicated to his work".

The funeral is today.

Dr Tan's cortege leaves Cherish Hall at Mount Vernon Religion at 2.30pm for cremation at Mandai Crematorium's Hall 4 at 3.30pm.

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