Dr Agasthian Thiruganam

Senior Consultant, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic & Vascular Surgery, NUH

Dr Agasthian obtained his MBBS and Master of Medicine in Surgery from the National University of Singapore in 1984 and 1990 respectively. He was also admitted to the fellowship of FRCS from Royal College of Surgeons of Glasslow in 1989 and Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1990. Dr Agasthian brings with him wealth of experiences in the field of Thoracic Surgery. He has done General Thoracic Fellowship in the Division of General Thoracic Surgery at Mayo Clinic, USA, and in Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation in Cleveland Clinic, USA. He has given numerous presentations to learned societies to share his experiences and knowledge and has done several publications, abstracts and book chapters. He is also an active member in several professional bodies. He is a Visiting Consultant to many restructured hospitals in Singapore and was a Clinical Lecturer in National University of Singapore. Before joining NUH, he was a Senior Consultant at Mount Elizabeth Medical Center. Prior to that, he was a Senior Consultant with the National Cancer Centre, Singapore.

 

Education and Fellowships

MBBS, MMed (Surgery), FRCS (Ed), FRCS (G)

 

Specialty Interests

• General thoracic surgery
• Minimally invasive surgery
• Lung volume reduction surgery
• Mesothelioma
• Non-small cell lung cancer

 

Selected Publications

1. Genomic profiles specific to patient ethnicity in lung adenocarcinoma. Broët, P; Dalmasso, C; Tan, EH; Alifano, M; Zhang, S; Wu, J; Lee, MH; Régnard, JF; Lim, D; Koong, HN; Agasthian, T; Miller, LD; Lim, E; Camilleri-Broët, S; Tan, P. Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 2011;17(11):3542-50.
2. Total tracheal resection for long-segment benign tracheal stenosis. Jia Lin Soon; Thirugnanam Agasthian. The Annals of thoracic surgery 2008; 85(2):654-6. 
3. Peripheral cardiopulmonary bypass-assisted thymoma resection. Soon JL, Poopalalingam R, Lim CH, Koong HN, Agasthian T. . J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2007 Dec; 21(6):867-9. No abstract available. 
4. An alternative approach to determining therapeutic choices in advanced non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC): maximizing the diagnostic procedure and the use of low-volume lung biopsies. Lim EH, Zhang SL, Yu K, Nga ME, Ahmed DA, Agasthian T, Wong PS, Chua GC, Wong D, Tan L, Seto KY, Yap WS, Low SP, Khoo KL, Chang A, Ng A, Tan P. J Thorac Oncol. 2007 May; 2(5):387-96. 
5. Never-Smokers With Lung Cancer: Epidemiologic Evidence of a Distinct Disease Entity. Chee-Keong Toh, Fei Gao, Wan-Teck Lim, Swan-Swan Leong, Kam-Weng Fong, Swee-Peng Yap, Anne A.L. Hsu, Philip Eng, Heng-Nung Koong, Agasthian Thirugnanam, Eng-Huat Tan. Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol 24, No 15 (May 20), 2006: pp. 2245-2251.