Dr Khoo Zhi Lin Deanna

Dr Deanna Khoo is a cardiologist at Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore.

Her subspecialty is interventional cardiology.

She was previously a consultant cardiologist at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH). She remains a visiting consultant there.

Dr Khoo graduated from the Imperial College School of Medicine, UK. She worked for a year in the North West London Health Trust before returning to Singapore. She completed her internal medicine training and was admitted as a member of the Royal College of Physicians, UK. She then went on to complete her advanced specialist training in cardiology at TTSH, where she subsequently completed her fellowship training in interventional cardiology.

While at the hospital, Dr Khoo cared for a large number of outpatient and inpatient general cardiology patients, and performed many coronary angiographies and percutaneous coronary interventions predominantly via the radial approach. Additionally, she has performed complex percutaneous coronary interventions involving left main stenting, bifurcation stenting and treating calcified coronary arteries with atherectomy and intravascular lithotripsy. Since 2015, she has performed more than 1,000 angioplasties.

She is a strong believer in intracoronary physiology assessments as well as utilising intracoronary imaging with intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomography to perform her interventions. She is experienced in performing interventions with both the latest drug-eluting stents and drug-eluting balloons. She is part of the STEMI (ST-elevation myocardial infarction) service that delivers round-the-clock interventions for acute myocardial infarction patients. She was also part of the pioneering team in Singapore that first performed Impella-assisted intervention, robotic-assisted angioplasty and use of the lighting flash system for the management of pulmonary embolism.

Dr Khoo also has an interest in echocardiography having obtained the ASCeXAM Testamur certification in adult echocardiography and is accredited in performing stress echocardiography.

She was a clinical tutor at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. Dr Khoo has been involved in research and was the principal investigator in multiple international and local trials related to thrombus management, acute coronary syndromes and percutaneous coronary intervention. She has also been invited as faculty and panelist for several cardiology conferences and scientific meetings.

Dr Khoo is a fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore and the European Society of Cardiology. She has served on the executive committee for the Singapore Cardiac Society.