Clin Asst Prof Govindasamy Sivaraj Pillai

Clinical Assistant Professor Sivaraj Pillai Govindasamy is a Consultant from Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at National Heart Centre Singapore. His expertise spans Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting and Valvular Heart Disease. He also has been trained in Aortic Surgery, Endovascular Surgery, and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI).

Clin Asst Prof Sivaraj graduated with an MBChB from the University of Glasgow in 2008 and have since specialized in cardiac surgery. After passing the MRCS in 2014 and earning the FRCS in Cardiothoracic Surgery in 2018, he was appointed Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at the National Heart Centre, Singapore, in 2019. 

In addition to practicing surgery, he serves as Clinical Assistant Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School and Lecturer at NTU Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine.

His commitment to healthcare has been recognized with the 10-Year Long Service Award (2019) and Service Quality Bronze and Silver Awards (2020, 2022).

He has completed a year-long fellowship at the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital in the UK in 2023, where he further refined his skills and expanded his knowledge in the field of aortic surgery. 

• FRCS Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh, UK 2018
• MRCS, Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh 2014
  
• MBChB, University of Glasgow, UK 2003-2008
  

• ​Consultant Cardiac and Endovascular Surgeon, SingHealth Duke-NUS Vascular Centre (SDVC) since 2021
• Consultant, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, National Heart Centre Singapore, May 2021 - Present​
  
• Surgical team for TAVI Programme, National Heart Centre Singapore since 2019
  
• Clinical Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS, Graduate Medical School, Singapore since 2019
  
• Associate Consultant, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, National Heart Centre Singapore, 2019 - April 2021
  
• Physician Faculty Member for SingHealth Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency Programme since 2019
  
• Adjunct Lecturer, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, National Technological University, Singapore since 2019
  
• Clinical Tutor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore since 2016
  

• S P Govindasamy, John Carson Allen, Chia Shaw Yang and Lim Yeong Phang. Is thoracotomy better than median sternotomy in single vessel coronary bypass surgery? 15th World Cardiac Surgery & Angiology Conference Dec 2016
• S P Govindasamy, Hong K Shi, Yeong Phang Lim. Repair of left ventricular pseudoaneurysm from mitral valve endocarditis. Singapore Medical Journal. Feb 2019.
• Samuel Ji Quan Koh 1, Jonathan Yap, Yilin Jiang, Julian Cheong Kiat Tay, Kevin Kien Hong Quah, Nishanth Thiagarajan, Swee Yaw Tan, Mohammed Rizwan Amanullah, Soo Teik Lim, Zameer Abdul Aziz, S P Govindasamy, Victor Tar Toong Chao, See Hooi Ewe, Kay Woon Ho. Impact of aortic annular size and valve type on haemodynamics and clinical outcomes after transcatheter aortic valve implantation. Ann Acad Med Singapore. 2022 Oct;51(10):605-618.
• N Tan, F Gao, R A Mohammed, S T Lim, Z Abdul Aziz, S P Govindasamy, V T T Chao, S H Ewe, K W Ho, J Yap. Safety and efficacy of cerebral embolic protection devices in transcatheter aortic valve implantation: a meta-analysis. European Heart Journal, Volume 44, Issue Supplement_1, February 2023.
• K Fong, J J L Yap, Y H Chan, S H Ewe, V T T Chao, M Rizwan, S P Govindasamy, Z A Aziz, V H Tan, K W Ho. Network Meta-Analysis Comparing Transcatheter, Minimally Invasive, and Conventional Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement. American Journal of Cardiology Volume 195, 15 May 2023
• Jie Jun Wong, Eugene Gan, Fei Gao, Keh Yann Shan, Mohammed Rizwan Amanullah, Lim Soo Teik, Zameer Abdul Aziz, S P Govindasamy, Victor Tar Toong Chao, See Hooi Ewe, Kay Woon Ho, Jonathan Yap. Short- and Long-term Clinical Outcomes of Balloon-expandable Versus Self-expanding Valves in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: A Meta-analysis. Journal of Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology 2023:2;e41. 10 Nov 2023
• S P Govindasamy, C Chong, M U Shah, A I G Mulla, MJ Naik. Retrograde Type A Aortic Dissection following Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair. Annals of Clinical and Medical Case Reports. 23 April 2024.