Dr Alex Tang Ah Lak

Procedure Focus

• Bleeders / Bronchial Artery Embolisation / GI & Renal Bleed / Post Traumatic Injuries
• Embolisation on non-malignant tumors: Uterine Artery Embolisation, Prostatic Artery Embolisation, Renal Angiomyolipoma
• Embolisation and treatment of various Vascular Malformations: AVM, Venous Lymphatic Malformations, Hemangioma, AV Fistula or Shunts
• General and Advanced Diagnositc Imaging & Consultations
• General and Complex Biopsies, Drainages and Intracavitory Urokinase Fibrinolysis
• Interventional Oncology: of benign and malignant tumours and metastasis, Transarterial Alcohol Embolisation, Transarterial Chemoinfusion, Selective Internal Radiation Therapy (SIRT-Yttrium-90) and Combination Therapies Neuro, Spinal and General Diagnostic Angiography
• Neurovascular Interventions: Stroke salvage, Coiling of aneurysms, Embolisation of AVM / DAVF / Bleeders Pulmonary Angio / Thrombolysis / Thrombectomy
• Shoulder, Hip, Elbow, Knee & Spinal Injections, RFA Facet Joints and various
• Venous Access Interventions / Tunnelled & Non-Tunnelled Catheter Insertions

Conditions Treated

Gastrointestinal, Hemoptysis, Metastasis, Post Traumatic Bleed, Pulmonary Embolism, Renal, Salvages, Vascular Access Interventions, Venous Diseases, Venous Thrombosis

Memberships & Associations

• President, Asia Pacific Society of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology 2008-2010
• Executive Member, Asia Pacific Society of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology (APSCVIR) from 2010
• Board of Director, Asian Pacific Association of Image Guided Therapy in Oncology (APAITO), from 2015

Board Certification

National Specialist Register, Malaysia, Royal College of Radiologists, United Kingdom, FRCR (UK) 1988, FAMM

Postgraduate Clinical Training

• Registrar, Department of Radiology
• Post Graduate Training Programme, Faculty of Medicine, University Kebangsaan Malaysia 1991-1995
• Consultant Radiologist, Lam Wah Ee Hospital, Penang 1996-1997
• Fellowship Training, Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Hammersmith Campus, Imperial College of Medicine, London 1997 -1998
• Consultant Radiologist, Advance Vascular & Interventional Radiology Unit, Hospital Kuala Lumpur 1998-1999
• Further Interventional Neuroradiology Training, Department of Neuroradiology, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK 2000

Medical School

University of Malaya MBBS 1988, University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Master of Medicine (Radiology) 1995