Awards &
Achievements

Professor Theo Kofidis's

Awards

1992
2000
2001
2002
2004
2005
2006
2012
2015
2015
2017
2018
2019
2023
1992

Scholarship of the State of Bavaria.

2000

"Best Oral Presentation” Award by International Congress of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Onassis Heart Center, Athens, Greece

2001

"Best Scientific Work" Award by European Transplant Society, Basel, Switzerland

2002

The German Research Society Grant Award.

2004

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund/Culpeper Bioscience Award, NY, USA.

2005

Funding Award of the Brauckmann Foundation, Hannover, Germany.

2006

The Lillehei-Caster Award of the European Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stockholm, Sweden.

2012

The Lifetime Achievement/Contribution Award by the Hellenic Cardiology Society.

2015

The MOH Academic Medicine Development Award (AMDA) Award.

2015

The Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

2017

Award by the International Olympic Academy.

2018

Award by the Hellenic CT Surgery Society and the ISMICS-Winter Conference.

2019

The NUS Medicine Special Recognition Award.

2023

Lifetime Achievement Award by the Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons.

Lifetime Achievement Award by the Indian Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons

Professor Theo Kofidis's

key Achievements

  • Developed the first Biomimicking, personalised heart valve in the world, currently in testing in the USA
  • Developed a non-traumatic endoscopic camera for heart surgery
  • Wrote the first dedicated, global, minimally invasive heart surgery book, featuring QR codes
  • Developed new surgical tools for heart surgery
  • Did the first holographic/holography-guided heart surgery in the world
  • Established a world class heart surgery simulation training centre in Singapore
  • Beating heart-mitral valve in Singapore
  • The first-in-the-world implantation of the Vein-Mesh to prevent bypass graft occlusion
  • Introduction of the minimally invasive heart valve operation programme (both arrested and beating heart)
  • Establishment of the Robotic Cardiac Surgery Programme
  • Introduced Sutureless Valves for the first time in the SEA region and operated patients with positive outcomes
  • Introduced the Endoclamp in Singapore and operated another series of patients, with positive outcomes
  • Introduced the Thoraflex total arch replacement system in Singapore, to facilitate hybrid surgeries with the vascular team
  • Introduced the single incision minimally invasive cardiac surgery, worldwide, a totally novel, NUHS concept (published in the global CTS network)
  • Conceived and performed the first minimally invasive combined procedure on the heart, through the same keyhole (published in the global CTS network)
  • Introduced the CorKnot technology in Asia, an automated knot tying device which facilitates minimally invasive procedures and shortens other open heart surgeries
  • The first Ferrazzi LV-reshaping procedure in Singapore (Straits Times)
  • Performed the first 3D cardiac surgery in Asia