Dr Victor is a General & Interventional Cardiologist – his Cardiology subspecialty training is in performing coronary angioplasty and stenting to treat ischaemic heart disease.

Born in Malaysia, he was awarded the ASEAN Scholarship from the Ministry of Education of Singapore from 1982-1987 for his secondary and pre-university education in Raffles Institution and Raffles Junior College. He graduated with Commendations from the Medical School in the University of Glasgow (Scotland, UK) in 1993, subsequent to which he worked in various hospitals in Glasgow. He completed his postgraduate medical training in 1997 when he obtained the MRCP (UK) in Edinburgh. 

He returned to Singapore in 1999 and completed his Advanced Specialty Training in Cardiology at the National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS) at the Singapore General Hospital. He obtained his accreditation as a Specialist in Cardiology from the Ministry of Health (Singapore) on 1st June 2002. Subsequently, he underwent subspecialty training in Interventional Cardiology at NHCS and at Changi General Hospital (CGH). He was awarded a Higher Manpower Development Program (HMDP) by SingHealth, and spent a year (Sep 2004-Sep 2005) doing a Fellowship in Interventional Cardiology at the renowned Siegburg Heart Centre in Germany, under the mentorship of Professor Eberhard Grube, a pioneer of multiple novel devices including drug-eluting stents and transcatheter aortic valve implantation. 

Upon his return to Singapore in 2005, as a Cardiology Consultant and Director of Cardiovascular Laboratory at CGH, he helped set up the acute percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) program at CGH to treat patients with acute heart attack, the first 24/7 acute PCI program in a Singapore hospital without on-site cardiothoracic surgical support. He returned to the National Heart Centre Singapore as a Senior Consultant in 2007, before he left for private practice in Gleneagles Medical Centre in 2009. 

Over the years, he has contributed as a speaker or panelist member for various international Interventional Cardiology meetings, including EuroPCR, Joint Interventional Meeting (Rome), TCT Asia Pacific Angioplasty Summit (Seoul), Complex PCI (Seoul), Kamakura Live Transradial Intervention Course (Japan), Kokura Live Course (Japan) and Great Wall International Congress of Cardiology (Beijing).