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Qi Chwen Ong
MBBS MPH
DPhil Student and Merdeka Scholar
Qi Chwen (Angus) is a DPhil candidate at Oxford Cardiovascular Clinical Research Facility within the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, under supervision of Professor Paul Leeson, Dr Winok Lapidaire, and Dr Turkay Kart. He is fully funded by the Merdeka Scholarship, supported by Khazanah Foundation and Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. His research focuses on the clinical evaluation of artificial intelligence in the management of hypertension among young adults.
Angus obtained his medical degree from Taylor’s University in Malaysia and Master of Public Health from Imperial College London. Prior to commencing his doctoral studies, he was a Research Associate at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he worked on digital health and behavioural interventions for chronic disease management in primary care, including a randomised controlled trial of digital health coaching to improve statin adherence among patients with hyperlipidaemia. He also co-led the development of DECODE (digital health competencies in medical education) framework through an international consensus study which involved over 200 experts from 79 countries. He is a certified health and wellbeing coach.