Dr Michelle Koh Li-Hua

Dr Michelle Koh Li-Hua, support advance care planning and complex decision making for patients and families with life-limiting and life-threatening diseases started in her role of Senior Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Care in KKH in January 2024.

Prior to this appointment, she trained and worked in the UK in Paediatrics, and Paediatric Palliative Medicine. After graduating with her medical degree from the University of Edinburgh, she completed her house jobs and then started Paediatric training in London. She entered sub-specialty training in Paediatric Palliative Medicine, obtaining her Certificate of Completion of Training (UK) in both Paediatrics and Paediatric Palliative Medicine in 2010.

Her first consultant position was a Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Care at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. Following that, she was appointed by University Hospital Southampton (UHS) to start a specialist paediatric palliative care service in that hospital and for the South Coast region of England. This post also included being the medical director at Naomi House Children’s Hospice & Jacks Place for Young Adults, and managing patients across settings in hospital, hospice and the patient’s home. She developed and grew this clinical service, secured further funding to expand the team and attracted two excellent successor consultants to lead this now established service.

In 2020, I returned to a Paediatric Palliative Care Consultant post at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

In 2024, she relocated to Singapore as KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital presented her an opportunity to deliver and develop paediatric palliative care as a specialty in Singapore.

• PGDip PaedsPallMed, University of Cardiff
• MRCPCH (UK) 2003
• MBChB University of Edinburgh 1999

• End of Life care
  

• Palliative and end of life care for a child: Understanding parents’ coping strategies.
  AS Darlington, D Randall, L Leppard, M Koh. Acta Paediatrics 2021 Feb;110(2):673-681
• Consensus guidelines on Artificial Nutrition and Hydration for children and young people towards end of life across four specialist Paediatric Palliative care centres
  A Anderson, K Burke, L Bendle, M Koh, R McCulloch, M Breen BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care 2021 Mar;11(1):92-100
• Chapter: Palliative Care for Children with Advanced Cancer.
  M Koh, F Craig, J Wolfe. Oxford Textbook of Cancer in Children, 7th Edition. Ed H. N. Caron, A. Biondi, T. Boterberg, F. Doz. Oxford University Press
• Chapter: Nutrition and Quality of Life in Children Receiving Palliative Care
  M Koh Handbook of Nutrition and Diet in Palliative Care, 2nd edition. Ed V.R. Preedy, CRC Press.
• Diagnostic Radiology in Paediatric Palliative Care. P Patel, M Koh, L Carr, K McHugh. Pediatric Radiology 44 (1) (2014) 3-11
• Palliative care education in neonatal units: impact on knowledge and attitudes
  K Twamley, P Kelly, R Moss, A Mancini, F Craig, M Koh, M Bluebond-Langer BMJ Support Palliat Care 3 (2) (2013) 213-220
• Snake: the development and validation of a questionnaire on sleep disturbances in children with severe psychomotor impairment
  M Blackenburg, A Tietze, T Hechler, G Hirschfeld, E Michel, M Koh, B Zernikow. Sleep Medicine 14 (2013) 339-351
• Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain in a Paediatric Patient.
  M Koh Paineurope 2012: Issue 2
• Paediatric Pain.
  M Koh, D Rajapakse, F Craig. MIMS Handbook of Pain Management, 6th Edition 2012. Ed H. Cottle
• Sleep Disturbances in Children with Multiple Disabilities.
  A Tietze, M Blankenburg, T Hechler, E Michel, M Koh, B Schlüter, B Zernikow. Sleep Medicine Reviews 16 (2012) 117-127
  
• Provision of palliative care services for children.
  M Koh MIMS Oncology and Palliative Care 4 (4) (2010)