Dr Tewani Komal Girish

Dr Tewani has always been interested in holistic medicine and done her Basic Specialist Training (BST) in Family Medicine from National University of Singapore in 2009. Thereafter she pursued her Advance Specialist Training (AST) in Palliative Medicine which she completed in Jan 2014. She has done a Fellowship in Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute Liverpool, United Kingdom, , where she was attached to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and Marie Curie Hospice. During this time, she was part of the Palliative team which saw adult patients with palliative issues. She was also attached to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital where she was part of the specialist Palliative team looking after the Palliative needs of children, this has given her exposure in both adult and paediatric palliative care.

In KKH, Dr Tewani helps provide palliative care to women diagnosed with a gynaecological malignancy and has helped initiated the Perinatal Palliative Service since Jan 2017.

• MMED Family Medicine 2009
• MCFP (s) Collegiate membership 2017
• FAMS (Palliative Medicine) 2014

• Clinical Lecturer, Yong Loo Lin College of Medicine
• Physician Faculty Member, Duke NUS and part of clinical overlay program
• Course Supervisor for Graduate Diploma in Palliative Medicine
• College of Family Physicians
• Academy of Medicine
• Indian Medical Council
• European Association of Gynecological Oncology
• Asia Pacific Hospice Network

• Singhealth Health Quality Service Award (Silver) 2017
• Singhealth Health Quality Service Award (Gold) 2018

• Quality of life
• End of life care
• Dignity therapy

• Project RISE (Renewing intimacy and sexuality): A pilot program to support marital intimacy and sexual health of female cancer patients in Singapore (Site PI)
• Pilot Implementation of national benchmarking tool for Palliative Care services in Singapore. (Site PI)

• Use of Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS) Scale for comprehensive assessment of symptoms in patients with gynecological malignancies
  Tewani. K, Li YJ, Lin L, Liu Jing, Lim YK. Singapore Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
• The Relationship between Symptom burden, Body image and Quality of life in Asian gynecological cancer patients
  Teo I, Cheung Y.B, Lim TYK, Namuduri RP, Long J.V, Tewani KG Psycho-Oncology.