Clin Assoc Prof Tham Lai Peng

• Fellow of Academy of Medicine Singapore, 2016
• MMed (Paediatrics), 1997
• MBBS National University of Singapore, 1991 

• Senior Consultant, Department of Emergency Medicine, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital 2008 – Present
• Clinical Associate Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School, 2021 - Present
• Adjunct Associate Professor, NUS Medicine, 2020 - Present
• Adjunct Associate Professor, LKC Medicine, 2022 – Present
• Deputy Clinical Educator Lead (Medicine), KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, 2025 - Present
• Member, Medical Advisory Committee, Singapore Civil Defence Force, 2007 – Present
• Member, Master of Medicine (Emergency Medicine) Examination Committee, 2014 – Present
• Member, Joint Committee on Specialist Training (Emergency Medicine) Examination Teams, 2012 – Present
• Member, Paediatric subcommittee of the Singapore Resuscitation and First Aid Council, 2018 – Present.
• Member, Academy of Medicine Review Committee on Sedation Guideline for Non -anaesthesiologist in standalone clinic, 2020 – Present.
• Physician Faculty, Singhealth Paediatric Medicine Residency, 2024 - Present
• Physician Faculty, Singhealth Emergency Medicine Residency, 2010 – Present.
• Member, KKH Sedation Committee, 2007 – Present
• Member, KKH Pain Management Committee, 2014 – Present
• Member, KKH HQSS – PCC (Patient Centred Care) Committee, 2020 – Present
• Course Director, Prehospital Paediatric Life Support Course, 2015 – Present
• Course Director, Paediatric Dental Sedation Advanced Life Support Course, 2023 – Present
• Course Director, Paediatric Oral Sedation Advanced Life Support Course, 2023 – Present
• Course Director, Paediatric Sedation Advanced Life Support Course, 2017 – Present
• Member of Directorate of Clinical Services and Co-Chair of the Paediatric and O&G Workgroup, Emergency Medicine ACP, 2017 - 2024
• Associate Programme Director, Singhealth Paediatric Medicine Residency, 2013 – 2017
• Core Faculty, Singhealth Paediatric Medicine Residency, 2009 – 2012, and 2018 – 2023
• Member, Emergency Medicine Residency Advisory Committee, 2013 - 2021

• Singapore Health Quality Service Award, 2022 and 2012
• SingHealth EM ACP Golden Quill Award, 2022
• KKH ChildKind Champion (Star) Award, 2022
• EM ACP excellence in teaching award, 2020
• Service from the Heart, 2020 and 2015
• YLL-NUS Faculty Special Recognition Award, 2019
• RiSE Award (Faculty Appreciation Award), 2018
• National Day Award (Long Service Medal), 2017
• SingHealth RiSE Award for Outstanding Faculty, 2017
• Singapore Medical Journal Reviewer Award 2017
• SingHealth Excellence Award 2016 – Distinguished Team Award, 2016
• Home Team Volunteer Award (MAC), Ministry of Home Affairs, 2016

Other awards:

• Certificate of Appreciation for dedicated contributions in Master of Medicine (Emergency Medicine) examinations from 2008 to 2024. 2024
• Token of Appreciation for Mentoring, Duke-NUS Medical School, 2024
• 30-year Long Service Award, SingHealth, 2023
• 15 year Long Service Award (SCDF MAC), 2022

• Development of a Paediatric Thoracostomy Training Model, 2025 – 2027.
• Future-Ready Interventions for Survival after Cardiac Arrest (FRISCA) – PAROS Phase 4, 2023 – 2027.
• Quality Cardiac Arrest Survivorship Cohort Study (QualiCAS), 2023 – 2027.
• Improving Outcomes for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest through a National, Living, Learning Pre-hospital Emergency Care Laboratory: Bundle of Ambulance-based Interventions, PAROS Phase 3, 2019 – 2027.

• Impact of AEDs and Training of Smartphone Activated Volunteers in Residential Areas on OHCA: A Nationwide Stepped-Wedge Implementation Trial. Pek PP, Chung Fook-Chong SM, Sudharshan P, Ge Y, Ng YY, Leong BS, Mao DR, Chong Chia MY, Ng WM, Gan HN, Doctor NE, Tham LP, Shahidah N, White AE, Hong D, Hock Ong ME. Resuscitation. 2025 Dec;217:110826. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2025.110826. Epub 2025 Sep 12. PMID: 40946899.
• Physical, psychological, cognitive, social health outcomes, and health-related quality of life in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors and their caregivers: Protocol of the quality cardiac arrest survivorship cohort study (QualiCAS). Pek PP, Chua M, Liew LX, Chen C, Lim SL, Uy FMR, Ho VK, Chia YW, Chua JM, Goh EL, Tham LP, Koh PL, Woo KL, Woo CTZ, Afiq IM, Fang K, Gan HN, Leong BS, Mao DR, Doctor NE, Ng WM, Oh YZ, Peck KH, Chen RW, Chia MY, Tay WL, Low SY, Li AY, Chong SL, Kang JM, Priyalatha S, Chia AQQ, Shahidah N, Ng BJH, Lee KY, Luo N, Ong MEH, Ho AFW. Resusc Plus. 2025 Mar 20;23:100938. doi: 10.1016/j.resplu.2025.100938.
• Falls from height in children: epidemiology and outcome. Kong KYC, Tham LP. Singapore Med J. 2024 Feb 16. doi: 10.4103/singaporemedj.SMJ-2021-397. Epub ahead of print.
• Letter to the Editor. Safety and effectiveness of nitrous oxide procedural sedation in a paediatric emergency department. Tan SQ, Tham LP. Ann Acad Med Singap 2023 Feb 52(2):100-4.
• Impact of time-to-compression on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival outcomes: A national registry study. Goh JL, Pek PP, Fook-Chong SMC, Ho AFW, Siddiqui FJ, Leong BS, Mao DRH, Ng W, Tiah L, Chia MY, Tham LP, Shahidah N, Arulanandam S, Ong MEH; PAROS Clinical Research Network. Resuscitation. 2023 Sep;190:109917. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2023.109917. Epub 2023 Jul 26.
• Pre-hospital airway management and survival outcomes after paediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. Tham LP, Fook-Chong S, Shahidah N, Fu-Wah Ho A, Tanaka H, Do Shin S, Chow-In Ko P, Darin Wong K, Jirapong S, Ramana Rao GV, Cai W, Al Qahtani S, Eng Hock Ong M; Pan-Asian Resuscitation Outcomes Study Clinical Research Network. Resuscitation 2022; 176: 9–18. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2022.04.018.
• Incidence and predictors of respiratory adverse events in children undergoing procedural sedation with intramuscular ketamine in a paediatric emergency department. Lee JL, Tham LP. Singapore Med J. 2022 Jan;63(1):28-34
• Long-Term Outcomes after Non-Traumatic Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Pediatric Patients: A Systematic Review. Ng ZHC, Ho SJ, Caleb T, Yaow CYL, Teoh SE, Tham LP, Ong MEH, Chong SL, Ho AFW. J Clin Med. 2022 Aug 26;11(17):5003.
• Validation of the CaRdiac Arrest Survival Score (CRASS) for predicting good neurological outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in an Asian emergency medical service system. Liu N, Wnent J, Lee JW, Ning Y, Ho AFW, Siddiqui FJ, Lim SL, Chia MY, Tiah L, Mao DR, Gräsner JT, Ong MEH; PAROS Singapore Investigators, Gan HN, Cheah SO, Ng WM, Tay WL, Leong BSH, Nadarajan G, Doctor NE, Tham LP, Arulanandam S. Resuscitation 2022 May 6;176:42-50. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2022.04.028. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35533896.
• The association between mode of transport and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest outcomes in Singapore. Chua ISY, Fook-Chong SMC, Shahidah N, Ng YY, Chia MYC, Mao DR, Leong BSH, Cheah SO, Gan HN, Doctor NE, Tham LP, Ong MEH; Singapore PAROS investigators. Resuscitation 2022 Apr;173:136-143.
• An unusual case of a foreign body: a child's tongue entrapped in a soft drink bottle. Yee R, Kwek VYX, Bong CL, Chan BH, Wang S, Wong PCY, Tham LP. Dent Traumatol. 2022 Jun;38(3):244-249. doi: 10.1111/edt.12729. Epub 2021 Dec 28.
• Singapore Paediatric Resuscitation Guidelines 2021. Ong GY, Ngiam N, Tham LP, Mok YH, Ong JS, Lee KP, Ganapathy S, Chong SL, Pek JH, Chew SY, Lim YC, Shen GQ, Kua J, Tan J, Ng KC. Singapore Med J. 2021 Aug;62(8):372-389.
• Assessing unrealised potential for organ donation after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Ho AFW, Tan TXZ, Latiff E, Shahidah N, Ng YY, Leong BS, Lim SL, Pek PP, Gan HN, Mao DR, Chia MYC, Cheah SO, Tham LP, Ong MEH. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. 2021 Jul 28;29(1):105.
• Effectiveness of a community based out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) interventional bundle: Results of a pilot study. Tay PJM, Pek PP, Fan Q, Ng YY, Leong BSH, Gan HN, Mao DRH, Chia MYC, Cheah SO, Doctor N, Tham LP, Ong MEH. Resuscitation. 2020;146:220–228.
• Improved Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Survival with a Comprehensive Dispatcher-Assisted CPR Program in a Developing Emergency Care System. Pek PP, Lim JYY, Leong BS, Mao DR, Chia MY, Cheah SO, Gan HN, Ng YY, Tham LP, Arulanandam S, Shahidah N, Lin X, Ho AFW, Ong MEH. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2020 Dec 4:1-10. doi: 10.1080/10903127.2020.1846824.
• Safety and effectiveness of intramuscular ketamine sedation in the management of children with oro-dental trauma in a paediatric emergency department. Yee R, Chay PL, Tham LP. Dent Traumatol 2020 Feb;36(1):19-24.
• Impact of bystander-focused public health interventions on cardiopulmonary resuscitation and survival: a cohort study. Blewer AL, Ho AFW, Shahidah N, White AE, Pek PP, Ng YY, Mao DR, Tiah L, Chia MY, Leong BS, Cheah SO, Tham LP, Kua JPH, Arulanandam S, Østbye T, Bosworth HB, Ong MEH. Lancet Public Health. 2020 Aug;5(8):e428-e436. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30140-7.
• Implementation of a National 5-Year Plan for Prehospital Emergency Care in Singapore and Impact on Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes From 2011 to 2016. Ho AFW, De Souza NNA, Blewer AL, Wah W, Shahidah N, White AE, Ng YY, Mao DR, Doctor N, Gan HN, Chia MYC, Leong BS, Cheah SO, Tham LP, Ong MEH; Singapore Pan‐Asian Resuscitation Outcomes Study (PAROS) investigators *. J Am Heart Assoc. 2020 Nov 3;9(21):e015368. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.119.015368. Epub 2020 Oct 26.
• Dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation for paediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A structured evaluation of communication issues using the SACCIA® safe communication typology. Pek JH, de Korne DF, Hannawa AF, Leong BSH, Ng YY, Arulanandam S, Tham LP, Ong MEH, Ong GYK. Resuscitation. 2019;139:144–151.
• Effect of vertical location on survival outcomes for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Singapore. Lian TW, Allen JC, Ho AFW, Lim SH, Shahidah N, Ng YY, Doctor N, Leong SHB, Gan HN, Mao DRH, Chia YCM, Cheah SO, Tham LP, Ong MEH. Resuscitation June 2019;139:24–32.
• Ethnic and Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Differences In Incidence and Survival From Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest In Singapore. Rakun A, Allen J, Shahidah N, Ng YY, Leong SHB, Gan HN, Mao DRH, Chia YCM, Cheah SO, Tham LP, Ong MEH. Prehosp Emerg Care. Sep 2019;23(5):619–630.
• Comparison of Outcomes and Characteristics of Emergency Medical Services (EMS)-Witnessed, Bystander-Witnessed, and Unwitnessed Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests in Singapore. Chia MYC, Kwa TPW, Wah W, Yap S, Doctor N, Ng YY, Mao DRH, Leong BSH, Gan HN, Tham LP, Cheah SO, Ong MEH. Prehosp Emerg Care. Nov 2019;23(6):847–854.
• Epidemiology and outcome of paediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrests: A paediatric sub-study of the Pan-Asian resuscitation outcomes study (PAROS). Tham Lai Peng; Wah Win; Phillips Rachel; Shahidah Nur; Ng Yih Yng; Shin Sang Do; Nishiuchi Tatsuya; Wong Kwanhathai Darin; Ko Patrick Chow-In; Khunklai Nalinas; Naroo Ghulam Yasin; Ong Marcus Eng Hock. Resuscitation 2018; 125:111-117.
• The Singapore Pediatric Triage Scale Validation Study. Ganapathy S; Yeo JG; Thia XHM; Hei GMA; Tham LP. Singapore Med J. 2018;59(4):205–209.
• Predictors of emesis in children undergoing procedural sedation with intramuscular ketamine in a paediatric emergency department. Suryaprakash Shruthi; Tham LP. Singapore medical journal 2017; 58(11):660-665.
• Characteristics and outcomes of young adults who suffered an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Chia Michael Yih-Chong; Lu Qing Shu; Rahman Nik Hisamuddin; Doctor Nausheen Edwin; Nishiuchi Tatsuya; Leong Benjamin Sieu-Hon; Tham Lai Peng; Goh E-Shaun; Tiah Ling; Monsomboon Apichaya; Ong Marcus Eng Hock. Resuscitation 2017; 111:34-40.
• A before-after interventional trial of dispatcher-assisted cardio-pulmonary resuscitation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in Singapore. Harjanto Sumitro; Na May Xue Bi; Hao Ying; Ng Yih Yng; Doctor Nausheen; Goh E Shaun; Leong Benjamin Sieu-Hon; Gan Han Nee; Chia Michael Yih Chong; Tham Lai Peng; Cheah Si Oon; Shahidah Nur; Ong Marcus Eng Hock. Resuscitation 2016; 102:85-93.
• Termination of Resuscitation Rules to Predict Neurological Outcomes in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest for an Intermediate Life Support Prehospital System. Cheong Randy Wang Long; Li Huihua; Doctor Nausheen Edwin; Ng Yih Yng; Goh E Shaun; Leong Benjamin Sieu-Hon; Gan Han Nee; Foo David; Tham Lai Peng; Charles Rabind; Ong Marcus Eng Hock. Prehospital emergency care 2016; 20(5):623-9.
• Interventional strategies associated with improvements in survival for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in Singapore over 10 years. Lai Hsuan; Choong Caroline V; Fook-Chong Stephanie; Ng Yih Yng; Finkelstein Eric A; Haaland Benjamin; Goh E Shaun; Leong Benjamin Sieu-Hon; Gan Han Nee; Foo David; Tham Lai Peng; Charles Rabind; Ong Marcus Eng Hock. Resuscitation 2015; 89:155-61.
• Extracorporeal life support for cardiac arrest in a paediatric emergency department. Chew So-phia; Tham Lai Peng. Singapore medical journal 2014; 55(3):e37-8.
• Geographic factors are associated with increased risk for out-of hospital cardiac arrests and provision of bystander cardio-pulmonary resuscitation in Singapore. Ong Marcus Eng Hock; Wah Win; Hsu Li Yang; Ng Yih Ying; Leong Benjamin Sieu-Hon; Goh E Shaun; Gan Han Nee; Tham Lai Peng; Charles Rabind Antony; Foo David Chee Guan; Earnest Arul. Resuscitation 2014; 85(9):1153-60.
• Implications for public access defibrillation placement by non-traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest occurrence in Singapore. Zakaria Nur Diana; Ong Marcus Eng Hock; Gan Han Nee; Foo David; Doctor Nausheen; Leong Benjamin Sieu-Hon; Goh E Shaun; Ng Yih Yng; Tham Lai Peng; Charles Rabind; Shahidah Nur; Sultana Papia; Anantharaman Venkataraman. Emergency medicine Australasia: EMA 2014; 26(3):229-36.
• Effect of location of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest on survival outcomes. Goh E Shaun; Liang Benjamin; Fook-Chong Stephanie; Shahidah Nur; Soon Swee Sung; Yap Susan; Leong Benjamin; Gan Han Nee; Foo David; Tham Lai Peng; Charles Rabind; Ong Marcus E H. Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore 2013; 42(9):437-44.
• Recognition and treatment of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests by non-emergency ambulance services in Singapore. Doctor Nausheen E; Yap Susan; Gan Han Nee; Leong Benjamin S H; Goh E Shaun; Chia Michael Y C; Tham Lai Peng; Ng Yih Yng; Lim Swee Han; Ong Marcus E H. Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore 2013; 42(9):445-50.
• Comparison of emergency medical services systems across Pan-Asian countries: a Web-based survey. Shin Sang Do; Ong Marcus Eng Hock; Tanaka Hideharu; Ma Matthew Huei-Ming; Nishiuchi Tatsuya; Alsakaf Omer; Karim Sarah Abdul; Khunkhlai Nalinas; Lin Chih-Hao; Song Kyoung Jun; Ryoo Hyun Wook; Ryu Hyun Ho; Tham Lai Peng; Cone David C. Prehospital Emergency Care 2012; 16(4):477-96.
• Reducing ambulance response times using geospatial-time analysis of ambulance deployment. Ong Marcus Eng Hock; Chiam Tut Fu; Ng Faith Suan Peng; Sultana Papia; Lim Swee Han; Leong Benjamin Sieu-Hon; Ong Victor Yeok Kein; Ching Tan Elaine Ching; Tham Lai Peng; Yap Susan; Anantharaman V. Academic Emergency Medicine: official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2010; 17(9):951
• Procedural sedation and analgesia in Children: Perspectives from Paediatric Emergency Physician. Lai Peng Tham; Khai Pin Lee. Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare 2010; 19(2):133-144
• Circadian rhythm in cardiac arrest: the Singapore experience. Lateef F; Ong M E H; Alfred T; Leong B S H; Ong V Y K; Tiah L; Tham L P; Anantharaman V. Singapore medical journal 2008; 49(9):719-23.
• Comparison of chest compression only and standard cardiopulmonary resuscitation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Singapore. Ong Marcus Eng Hock; Ng Faith Suan Peng; Anushia P; Tham Lai Peng; Leong Benjamin Sieu-Hon; Ong Victor Yeok Kein; Tiah Ling; Lim Swee Han; Anantharaman V. Resuscitation 2008; 78(2):119-26
• Survival outcomes with the introduction of intravenous epinephrine in the management of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Ong Marcus Eng Hock; Tan Eng Hoe; Ng Faith Suan Peng; Panchalingham Anushia; Lim Swee Han; Manning Peter George; Ong Victor Yeok Kein; Lim Steven Hoon Chin; Yap Susan; Tham Lai Peng; Ng Kheng Siang; Venkataraman Anantharaman; Annals of emergency medicine 2007; 50(6):635-42.
• Paediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrests: epidemiology and outcome. Tham LP; Chan I. Singapore medical journal 2005; 46(6):289-96.