The event will take place on Saturday, July 15, at Cinnamon Grand Hotel, Colombo (Cedar Room) at 8 pm followed by Fellowship Dinner

Dr. Sivathasan Cumaraswamy, currently a Consultant of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at the Heart, Lung and Vascular Centre of Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre, Singapore, will present Advanced Heart Failure Management Strategies
Dr. Paul became the Asian proctor for the Edwards Lifesciences TAVR programme and the Asian proctor for the Medtronic Core Valve TAVR programme in 2013

A lecture and case discussion organized by Singapore’s Parkway Health in collaboration with the Sri Lanka College of Cardiology will be held in Colombo on Saturday, July 15th with two exceptionally skilled cardiologists from Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth Hospital sharing their expertise on Cardiothoracic care and the most recent treatment methods, along with key local cardiologists.   

Dr. Sivathasan Cumaraswamy, currently a Consultant of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at the Heart, Lung and Vascular Centre of Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre, Singapore, will present Advanced Heart Failure Management Strategies, while Dr. Chiam Toon Lim Paul, the Mount Elizabeth Cardiologist who performed the first transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure in Asia in 2009, will focus on Managing High Risk and High-Risk Patients: CHIP (Complex and High-Risk Coronary Intervention) and Complex Tavi (Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement). 

 
Dr. Sivathasan also serves as Programme Director of Mechanical Heart Devices and Co-Director of Heart/Lung Transplantation programmes at Singapore’s National Heart Centre. A graduate of the Colombo University and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Edinburgh, and the Academy of Medicine Singapore, Dr. Sivathasan was instrumental in establishing several major programmes in Singapore including Mechanical Heart Assist, the heart-lung transplant programme at the National Heart Centre, Robotic cardiac surgery.   
Dr. Sivathasan received The Sri Lanka Ranjana title from the President of Sri Lanka in 2019 in recognition of his contribution to science.   

Dr. Paul became the Asian proctor for the Edwards Lifesciences TAVR programme and the Asian proctor for the Medtronic Core Valve TAVR programme in 2013. He received the Sing Health Publish Award in 2021 in recognition of his extensive research publications in cardiovascular journals.   
The Lecture and case discussion is organized by Parkway Patient’s Assistance Centre in Colombo under the auspices of Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth Hospital in collaboration with Sri Lanka College of Cardiology. The event will take place on Saturday, July 15, at Cinnamon Grand Hotel, Colombo (Cedar Room) at 8 pm followed by Fellowship Dinner.