Datin Dr. Ong Mei Lin

MBBS(Mal), FRCP(Lond), FRCP(Edin), FRCP&S(Glasg), FESC, FACC, FAsCC, AM, FNHAM

Prevention of and health screening for heart disease. Treatment of cardiovascular diseases including coronary artery disease, high blood pressure, lipid disorders, heart failure, abnormal heart rhythms and adult structural heart diseases.

Dr. Ong practises non-invasive as well as invasive and interventional cardiology. These include echocardiography (trans-thoracic, trans-oesophageal, dobutamine and stress echocardiography), CT coronary angiography, permanent pacemaker implantation, coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention (including Primary PCI for acute myocardial infarction and measurement of Fractional Flow Reserve)

Dr Ong Mei Lin joined Gleneagles Penang as Consultant Cardiologist in 1994. Prior to this, she was Consultant Cardiologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur. She is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London, Edinburgh and Glasgow, the American College of Cardiology, the European Society of Cardiology and the National Heart Association of Malaysia.

Dr Ong has published in international and local scientific journals, presented papers at international symposiums and lectured extensively in Malaysia. She is a member of the Expert Panel (Writing Committee) for the Malaysian Clinical Practice Guidelines for Appropriate Use Criteria for Investigations and Revascularization in CAD (2015), Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Women (2nd  Edition, 2016), Heart Disease in Pregnancy (2016), Management of  Dyslipidaemia (5th  Edition, 2017), Primary and Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease (2017), Stable Coronary Artery Disease (2nd  Edition, 2018) and ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction (4th  Edition, 2019).

She enjoys teaching and regularly contributes to Continuing Professional Development Programmes both as Organizer and Speaker. She is also an Instructor of Advanced Cardiac Life Support for the American Heart Association.