Dr Ruan XuCong

MD, MRCP (UK), MMed

Associate Consultant

Specialty: Cardiology

Sub-specialties: Echocardiography, Cardiac Computed Tomography, Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Conditions Treated by this Doctor:
Cardiovascular Disease.

Clinical Appointments

Associate Consultant Department of Cardiology National Heart Centre Singapore
Associate Consultant Cardiology Changi General Hospital

Profile

Dr Ruan XuCong is an Associate Consultant from the Department of Cardiology at National Heart Centre Singapore and Changi General Hospital. She received her medical training from Duke-NUS Medical School and graduated in 2017. She spent her initial years of training in SingHealth Internal Medicine Residency Programme, during which she obtained her Membership in the Royal College of Physicians (United Kingdom; 2019). She completed her Cardiology Senior Residency training in 2023 as Chief Resident and received her Specialist Accreditation in Cardiology in January 2024. Her clinical interest is in multi-modality cardiovascular imaging.

Education

Specialist Accreditation in Cardiology, January 2024
Membership of Royal College of Physicians – United Kingdom, Jun 2019
Duke-NUS Medical School, June 2017

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Associate Consultant, Department of Cardiology, National Heart Centre Singapore, February 2024 - Present
Chief Resident, Cardiology Senior Residency, National Heart Centre Singapore, Singapore Health Services, July 2022 – June 2023
Clinical Teacher, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, 2020 – Present
Clinical Lecturer, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, 2020 – Present
SingHealth Associate in Education, SingHealth, 2020 – Present

Awards

RiSE Outstanding Resident Award, Cardiology, SingHealth, 2023
Outstanding Chief Resident Award, SingHealth, 2023
RiSE Outstanding Resident Award, Internal Medicine, SingHealth, 2020
RiSE Inspiring Resident Educator Award, Internal Medicine, SingHealth, 2019
Medicine ACP Junior Educator Award, Internal Medicine, SingHealth, 2019

Research Interests

Cardiac imaging
Artificial intelligence applications in medicine

Publications and Research Trials

Chylopericardium causing cardiac tamponade in a patient with lymphangioleiomyomatosis, IJJ Fong, X Ruan, YS Keh, YH Tan.. Eur. J. Med. Case Rep. 2022.
Development of a Personalized Near-Peer Mentoring Programme for Final Year Medical Students with Residents as Mentors, AF Yap, WWS Fong, X Ruan. Proc. Singapore Healthc. 2021.
Conducting of Web-Based Workshops for Final Year Medical Students Preparing to Enter the Workforce During the COVID-19 Pandemic, JYL Kan, L Zhu, NJM Fong, X Ruan, AML Ong, G Lee, SAM Mattar, NL Woong, ML Kang. Med Sci Educ. 2020.