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Adj Assoc Prof Tan Wei Ching

MBBS, FRCOG, FAMS, RCOG/RCR Diploma in Advanced Obstetric Ultrasound

Senior Consultant

KK Women's and Children's Hospital KK Women's and Children's Hospital

Specialty: Obstetrics & Gynaecology, General Surgery

Conditions Treated By This Doctor

Clinical Interests

Maternal Fetal Medicine

Clinical Appointments

Senior Consultant

Maternal Fetal Medicine

Academic Appointments

About Doctor

Dr Tan Wei Ching is a Senior Consultant at the Department of Maternal Fetal Medicine, KK Woman's and Children's Hospital, and Associate Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of O&G and the College of O&G Singapore and Head of the Prenatal Diagnostic Centre at Dept of O&G, Singapore General Hospital till 2024.

She is also a MOHH MOPC Specialist and a member of the SingHealth Ultrasound and Enterprise Digital Imaging Workgroups.  

Dr Tan has an interest in fetal medicine and trained at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital at University College London Hospital.  She has won several awards in overseas conferences and has published in both local and overseas journals.  She was the Course Director for the biennial SGH Gynaecological Ultrasound workshop and an editor of the book “Complexities & Challenges in Gynaecological Ultrasound”.

Languages Spoken

  • English

Education and Training

  • Fellow, Royal College Of Obstetrics & Gynaecology (RCOG)
  • Fellow, Academy of Medicine Singapore (FAMS)
  • RCOG/RCR Diploma in Advanced Obstetric Ultrasound
  • Member, Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
  • Degree of Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

  • College of O&G Singapore Clinical Genetic and Genomic Services Committee
  • SingHealth Enterprise Digital Imaging (EDI) Committee
  • SingHealth O&G ACP EPIC Procurement Committee
  • SingHealth O&G ACP Blanket Privileging Committee
  • Master of Medicine (Obstetrics & Gynaecology) Committee Member
  • MOH CSOG-Medical Operations and Policy Centre (MOPC) Panel Specialist

Awards

  • Service with a Heart
  • Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence
  • Duke-NUS Clinical Faculty Recognition Award
  • Duke NUS Medical School Long Service Award
  • SingHealth Excels (RiSE) Outstanding Faculty Award
  • COVID-19 Resilience Medal
  • SingHealth Quality Service Gold Award
  • Yong Loo Lin School Of Medicine MedACE Special Recognition Award

Publications

  • Amniotic fluid embolism: A 10-year retrospective case series of patients in a tertiary hospital and evidence-based literature review
  • Single-step universal first-trimester cytomegalovirus screening and valacyclovir prophylaxis in pregnancy: A cost-utility analysis in a high seroprevalence setting
  • Preventing Permanent Cytomegalovirus Sequelae in Children: A Cost-Utility Analysis of Single-Step Universal Serologic versus Targeted Antenatal CMV Testing
  • Revisiting Cytomegalovirus Seroprevalence in Singapore's Antenatal Populations: A Two-Decade Update.  BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 2023
  • Successful management of a parturient with Eisenmenger’s syndrome and pulmonary hypertension undergoing cesarean section.  Yek JLJ, Leong XF, Tan WC, He YK, Mok USM. Obstetrics and Gynaeoclogy Reports.  2023
  • Polyhydramnios associated with rare genetic syndromes: two case reports.  CWC Lim , IE Lustestica, WB Poon and WC Tan.  Journal of Medical Case Reports 2024 18:97.
  • Preparation and Consideration for an Isolation Maternity Unit in a tertiary hospital during COVID pandemic.  YKHe, YWY Wong, A Ngeow, EYL Sim, S Arunachalam, S Ho, M Mok, WC Tan.  BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 2022 22:317
  • Diagnostic performance of International Ovarian Tumor Analysis (IOTA) logistic regression model LR2 for adnexal masses classification at a tertiary gynaecology center in Singapore.  Partana P, Lee SL, Tan WC.  J Clin Gynecol Obstet. 2021; 10(3):67-72
  • Prenatal Screening in the era of non-invasive prenatal testing: a Nationwide cross-sectional survey of obstetrician knowledge, attitudes and clinical practice.  Yang LY, Tan WC.  BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 20, 579 (2020)
  • Sonographic diagnosis of SEDC and compound heterozygote of SEDC and Achondroplasia – a report of 4 pregnancies.  Chitty LS, Tan WC, Nesbit DL, Hall CM, Rodeck CH.  Prenat Diagn, Sept 2006;26(9):861-5