Asst Prof Troy Puar

Asst Prof Troy Puar

MBBS (NUS), MRCP (UK), PhD (NUS)

President, ASEAN Network of Adrenal Hypertension (ANAH)

Head & Senior Consultant, Dept of Endocrinology & Adrenal Hypertension Centre, Changi General Hospital, SingHealth, Singapore

Vice-President, College of Endocrinologists, Academy of Medicine, Singapore

Executive Committee (EXCO) Member, Singapore Hypertension Society

Profile

Dr Troy Puar is an Endocrinologist at Changi General Hospital (CGH), Singapore. He completed his medical degree and specialist training in Singapore, before completing a year-long fellowship at Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands focusing on adrenal endocrinology.

Dr Puar has initiated both an Adrenal Subspecialty, and Resistant Hypertension Service in CGH. He has a keen interest in patients with adrenal hypertension and works together with various specialists in CGH to deliver world-class care for patients with adrenal hypertension.

He is a recipient of several National Medical Research Council (NMRC) awards and is a nationally funded clinician scientist with several studies on patients with primary aldosteronism. He is currently leading a nationwide clinical trial, aiming to improve the identification of patients with curable forms of hypertension using PET-CT functional imaging.

Dr Puar is also the lead Principal Investigator for the Shimadzu–Changi Clinomics Centre (SC3) which utilises state-of-the-art liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry to measure hormones for personalised treatment of hypertension.