Adjunct Associate Professor Chester Drum, M.D. Ph.D., is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore, and a Senior Consultant cardiologist at the National University Heart Centre, Singapore (NUHCS). He received an M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He was trained in internal medicine at the University of California, San Diego and as a cardiologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital (Harvard Medical School) in Boston. After receiving the Burroughs Welcome Career Award for Medical Scientists, he then moved to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he was director of Translational Medicine for the regulatory innovation group, MIT-NEWDIGS. Adj A/Prof. Drum has over 20 years of clinical experience in managed care, private, public and academic healthcare settings. Adj A/Prof. Drum's current research bridges the gap between basic biochemistry and clinical care. Clinical research focusses on mass spectroscopy to answer fundamental questions of disease mechanism and prognosis, in particular the clinical use of oxidative stress.
