About the speaker
Clinical Assistant Professor Lohendran Baskaran is a Senior Consultant with the Department of Cardiology at the National Heart Centre Singapore and a Clinical Assistant Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School. His clinical interests include cardiac computed tomography, nuclear cardiology, artificial intelligence, cardiovascular risk prediction and preventive cardiology.
As a clinician-scientist, Dr Baskaran is an investigator in more than 10 CT and AI trials at institutional, national and international levels, with grants totalling over SGD 12 million. He is the founding director of both the CVS.AI and Cardiac CT Research cores and has published more than 30 papers in risk prediction, CT and AI.
He is also the editor of Machine Learning in Cardiovascular Medicine (Elsevier, 2021) and has contributed to international research and consensus guideline documents. At the cluster level, he serves on the SingHealth AI Executive Committee.
Dr Baskaran graduated from University College London with an MBBS and a First Class Honours BSc in Medical Physics. He was previously an Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, focusing on non-invasive imaging, risk prediction and AI.
Delegate Pass · S$800