Division of Cardiology ( Courses organized by Division of Cardiology)
Head of Division: Professor Cheuk-Man Yu
Members:
Dr. Wilson WM Chan, Prof. Gabriel WK Yip, Dr. Jeffrey WH Fung, Dr. Joseph YS Chan, Dr. Lawrence KK Tse, Dr. Anna KY Chan, Dr. Leo CC Kum, Dr. Eugene B Wu, Dr. Yat Yin Lam , Dr. Pui Wai Lee
Trainees:
Dr. Chin Pang Chan, Dr. Karl CY Chan
Research Nurses:
Skiva Chan, Leata Yeung, Miho Yue
Clinical Research Staffs:
Tracy Lam, Sheung Por Poon, Hon Chung Lam, Kidius Tam, Soey Au Yeung, Mango Zhang
Cardiology Research Fellows:
Qing Zhang, Fang Fang, Chun Yan Ma, Maple Xie, Helen Zhang, Yue Yi Wen
Basic Research Staff:
KB Lai
Project Coordinators & Conference Secretariats:
Hidi Lee
Full-time PhDs:
Ebenezer KC Kong, Grace Liang, Qing Shang, Jean Dong
Facilities:
Cardiac Care Unit
K.H. Chao Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Non Invasive Cardiac Laboratory (Echocardiography, exercise ECG, ambulatory ECG and Blood pressure monitoring, vascular imaging, vascular tonometry etc)
S. H. Ho Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Centre
Research Interests:
1.	Cardiac resynchronization therapy
2.	Cutting-edge technology in the monitoring (e.g. intrathoracic impedance technology) or treatment (e.g. cardiac contractility modulation) of heart failure
3.	New echocardiographic techniques for quantitative and qualitative assessment of cardiac function (e.g. Tissue Doppler Imaging & its post-processing imaging modalities, 2D strain, real-time 3D &4D Echocardiography, dyssynchrony imaging etc.)
4.	Conducting cardiovascular clinical trials including multicenter studies (Include those for heart failure, hypertension, acute coronary syndrome, lipid-lowering, percutaneous coronary intervention, cardiac arrhythmia, pacing & related devices)
5.	New indications and technologies in cardiac pacing arrhythmias management
6.	Non-invasive cardiac imaging technologies for assessment of cardiovascular diseases, in particular cardiac magnetic resonance imaging
7.	Assessment of atherosclerosis and prognostic markers in renal failure patients.
8.	Hypertension studies: examination of contributing factors in Chinese including the role of genetic polymorphisms, treatment and surrogate end-points assessment including arterial wall stiffness and endothelial dysfunction
9.	Atherosclerosis and arterial endothelial dysfunction including risk factors and the role of homocysteinaemia
10.	Management of acute coronary syndromes including use of invasive assessment of coronary plaques and percutaneous coronary interventions
11.	Coronary intervention with intravascular ultrasound quantification of plaque burden
Selected 20 Recent Publications:
1.	Yu CM, Zhang Q, Fung JW, Chan HC, Chan YS, Yip GW, Kong SL, Lin H, Zhang Y, Sanderson JE. A novel tool to assess systolic asynchrony and identify responders of cardiac resynchronization therapy by tissue synchronization imaging. J Am Coll Cardiol 2005;45:677-84.
2.	Yu CM, Fung JW, Zhang Q, Chan CK, Chan YS, Lin H, Kum LC, Kong SL, Zhang Y, Sanderson JE. Tissue Doppler imaging is superior to strain rate imaging and postsystolic shortening on the prediction of reverse remodeling in both ischemic and nonischemic heart failure after cardiac resynchronization therapy. Circulation 2004;110:66-73
3.	Yu CM, Fung JW, Chan CK, Chan YS, Zhang Q, Lin H, Yip GW, Kum LC, Kong SL, Zhang Y, Sanderson JE. Comparison of efficacy of reverse remodeling and clinical improvement for relatively narrow and wide QRS complexes after cardiac resynchronization therapy for heart failure. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 2004;15:1058-65.
4.	Fung JW, Szeto CC, Chan WW, Kum LC, Chan AK, Wong JT, Wu EB, Yip GW, Chan JY, Yu CM, Woo KS, Sanderson JE. Effect of N-acetylcysteine for prevention of contrast nephropathy in patients with moderate to severe renal insufficiency: a randomized trial. Am J Kidney Dis 2004;43:801-8.
5.	Yip GW, Zhang Y, Tan PY, Wang M, Ho PY, Brodin LA, Sanderson JE. Left ventricular long-axis changes in early diastole and systole: impact of systolic function on diastole. Clin Sci (Lond) 2002;102:515-22.
6.	Fung JW, Li TS, Choy DK, Yip GW, Ko FW, Sanderson JE, Hui DS. Severe obstructive sleep apnea is associated with left ventricular diastolic dysfunction. Chest 2002;121:422-9.
7.	Zhang Q, Yu CM, Fung JW, Zhang Y, Chan YS, Chan HC, Yip GW, Sanderson JE. Assessment of the effect of cardiac resynchronization therapy on intraventricular mechanical synchronicity by regional volumetric changes. Am J Cardiol 2005;95:126-9.
8.	Yu CM, Fung JW, Zhang Q, Chan CK, Chan I, Chan YS, Kong SL, Sanderson JE, Lam CW. Improvement of Serum NT-ProBNP Predicts Improvement in Cardiac Function and Favorable Prognosis After Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy for Heart Failure. J Card Fail. 2005;11:42-6.
9.	Yu CM, Sanderson JE. Update in the management of diastolic heart failure. Curr Vasc Pharmacol. 2004;2:301-8.
10.	Sanderson JE, Wang M, Yu CM. Tissue Doppler imaging for predicting outcome in patients with cardiovascular disease. Curr Opin Cardiol. 2004;19:458-63. (Review).
11.	Wang M, Yip GW, Wang AY, Zhang Y, Ho PY, Tse MK, Yu CM, Sanderson JE. Tissue Doppler imaging provides incremental prognostic value in patients with systemic hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy. J Hypertens. 2005;23:183-91.
12.	Wang M, Yip G, Yu CM, Zhang Q, Zhang Y, Tse D, Kong SL, Sanderson JE. Independent and incremental prognostic value of early mitral annulus velocity in patients with impaired left ventricular systolic function. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2005;45:272-7.
13.	Zhang Y, Chan AK, Yu CM, Lam WW, Yip GW, Fung WH, So NM, Wang M, Sanderson JE. Left ventricular systolic asynchrony after acute myocardial infarction in patients with narrow QRS complexes. Am Heart J. 2005;149:497-503.
14.	Chiu CW, So NM, Lam WW, Chan KY, Sanderson JE. Combined first-pass perfusion and viability study at MR imaging in patients with non-ST segment-elevation acute coronary syndromes: feasibility study. Radiology. 2003;226:717-22.
15.	So NM, Lam WW, Li D, Chan AK, Sanderson JE, Metreweli C. Magnetic resonance coronary angiography with 3D TrueFISP: breath-hold versus respiratory gated imaging. Br J Radiol. 2005;78:116-21.
16.	Chan CP, Sanderson JE, Glatz JF, Cheng WS, Hempel A, Renneberg R. A superior early myocardial infarction marker. Human heart-type fatty acid-binding protein.Z Kardiol. 2004;93:388-97.
17.	Wang AY, Ho SS, Wang M, Liu EK, Ho S, Li PK, Lui SF, Sanderson JE. Cardiac valvular calcification as a marker of atherosclerosis and arterial calcification in end-stage renal disease. Arch Intern Med. 2005;165:327-32.
18.	Wang AY, Woo J, Lam CW, Wang M, Chan IH, Gao P, Lui SF, Li PK, Sanderson JE. Associations of serum fetuin-A with malnutrition, inflammation, atherosclerosis and valvular calcification syndrome and outcome in peritoneal dialysis patients. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2005.
19.	Fung JW, Yu CM, Yip G, Zhang Y, Chan H, Kum CC, Sanderson JE. Variable left ventricular activation pattern in patients with heart failure and left bundle branch block. Heart. 2004;90:17-9.
20.	Fung JW, Chan HC, Chan JY, Chan WW, Kum LC, Sanderson JE. Ablation of nonsustained or hemodynamically unstable ventricular arrhythmia originating from the right ventricular outflow tract guided by noncontact mapping. Pacing Clin Electrophysiol. 2003;26:1699-705.