Rate My Professor Fu Song Ng

Professor Fu Siong Ng is a Professor of Cardiology in the National Heart and Lung Institute, Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London. He serves as a Consultant Cardiologist and Cardiac Electrophysiologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Ng studied medicine at St George’s, University of London from 1997 to 2003, where he earned a first-class honours BSc in medical sciences and clinical pharmacology, ranking top in his year in multiple examinations, and obtained distinctions in his final MBBS examinations. He received clinical training in cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology at several London hospitals, including Hammersmith Hospital and St Mary’s Hospital. In 2012, Imperial College London awarded him a PhD for studies on the effects of gap junction modulation on myocardial structure and function. He then spent one year as a post-doctoral researcher at Washington University in Saint Louis, USA, conducting optical mapping experiments on explanted human hearts. Ng is accredited as a cardiac electrophysiology specialist by the European Heart Rhythm Association and holds fellowships including FRCP, FESC, FHRS, and SFHEA.

Ng leads a research group focused on arrhythmogenic mechanisms underlying heart rhythm disorders, with particular emphasis on atrial fibrillation, the most common cardiac arrhythmia. His research spans laboratory experiments using optical mapping on explanted hearts to first-in-human clinical translation, incorporating advanced signal processing, electrocardiographic imaging, machine learning for electrocardiogram analysis, and studies on adipose tissue's role in arrhythmias via patient cohorts before and after bariatric surgery. He has developed novel techniques for local activation time annotation, conduction velocity estimation, and identification of drivers in atrial fibrillation. Key publications include "Processing and analysis of cardiac optical mapping data obtained with potentiometric dyes" (2012), "Techniques for automated local activation time annotation and conduction velocity estimation in cardiac mapping" (2015), "Spatial resolution requirements for accurate identification of drivers of atrial fibrillation" (2017), "Mechanisms of sex differences in atrial fibrillation: role of hormones and differences in electrophysiology, structure, function, and remodelling" (2019), and "Association of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy with future cardiovascular disease" (2023). His work has garnered over 4,300 citations. Ng was awarded an MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship in 2009 and has been Director of the BSc in Cardiovascular Sciences at Imperial College School of Medicine since 2021. In clinical practice, he performs catheter ablation for arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation, supraventricular tachycardia, and ventricular tachycardia, and implants pacemakers, defibrillators, and other cardiac devices.