- Home
- Prof Carolyn Lam
Carolyn Lam
Professor and Senior Consultant
National Heart Centre Singapore Duke-NUS, Singapore
Biography
Prof Carolyn Lam is a Senior Consultant at the Department of Cardiology and Director of Women's Heart Health at the National Heart Centre Singapore, having pioneered the first Women’s Heart Clinic in Singapore. Prof Lam is a world-renowned specialist in heart failure (particularly heart failure with preserved ejection fraction [HFpEF]). Her work in the PARAGON-HF and EMPEROR-Preserved trials led to the first FDA-approved treatment for HFpEF and the first robustly positive clinical outcomes trial in HFpEF to-date.
Featured Courses
Implementing Heart Failure Guidelines with Collaborative Care
- Not accredited
Published:
Learning objectives
- Appraise new updates in heart failure guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT)
- Apply latest guideline recommendations to patient cases
- Describe barriers preventing early initiation of GDMT
- Identify the roles of nurses and other healthcare professionals to achieve optimal heart failure therapy
- Identify the importance of the nurse/cross-functional team