Dr. Low Lip Ping is a Consultant Cardiologist at the Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre, a Visiting Consultant to the Cardiac Department and the Heart Institute at the National University Hospital, and a Visiting Consultant to the Singapore General Hospital and the Singapore National Heart Centre. He was previously an Associate Professor of Medicine (Department of Medicine) at the National University of Singapore. He is also Honorary Consultant to the SATA Chest & Heart Clinic.

He received his MBBS at the University of Singapore (1965) and is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore and a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology.

Dr. Low is the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Singapore Heart Foundation and founder President of the Singapore Hypertension Society. He was formerly the President of the Singapore Medical Association and of the Singapore Cardiac Society. He is a past President of the Asian Pacific Society of Hypertension, founder President of the Asia Pacific Heart Network, and was a previous continental representative to the Executive Board of the World Heart Federation

Dr Low has served on a number of governmental and public committees including the National Cardiac Care Committee, the Healthy Lifestyle Committee, the Advisory Committee on Cardiac Care (Cardiology) Ministry, Specialist Training Committee for Cardiology (Specialist Accreditation Board), Expert Panel for Cardiology (Centre for Pharmaceutical Administration and Centre for Drug Evaluation, Health Sciences Authority), the Complaints Committee of the Singapore Medical Council, the Panel of Specialists for the Advanced Medical Directive, the Panel of Experts for subordinate courts mediation service and the National Resuscitation Council.

He is Chairman of the Ministry of Health Workgroup on the Singapore Hypertension Clinical Practice Guidelines and a member of the committee on the Singapore Clinical Practice Guidelines on Lipids. In addition, Dr. Low has served on several advisory boards of multinational pharmaceutical companies

Dr. Low has participated in the organization of and spoken at many local and international medical meetings. He has been an author or co-author of more than 70 scientific papers and has been on the editorial board of several scientific journals.

For his national and international contributions he was conferred the Public Service Star (BBM) in the National Day Awards 2001 by the President of Singapore.