Associate Professor Mark Chan is a Senior Consultant at the National University Heart Centre, Singapore. His concurrent appointment is also an Associate Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS). He completed his cardiology training at the National University Hospital, Singapore in 2006. He subsequently spent two years doing clinical-translational research at the Duke Clinical Research Institute, during which he served as a co-chief fellow, and graduated with a Master of Health Science degree from Duke University in 2008. He then spent another 18 months at the Montreal Heart Institute doing a combined fellowship in interventional cardiology and platelet biology. He is deputy director of the Cardiovascular Metabolic Disease Program, NUS, and supervises translational research and clinical trials of acute coronary syndrome at the Cardiovascular Research Institute, NUS.