Dr Amudha Jayanthi Anand

Dr Amudha is a Senior Consultant in the Department of Neonatology at KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH). She began her career in 2006 at KKH after completing Membership examinations in the United Kingdom. Following local training requirements for Specialist registration, she completed Advanced Specialty training in Paediatrics and subsequently in Neonatology.

For 20 years at KKH, she managed regular Neonatology duties including outpatient clinical work, teaching, and training. Since 2009, she led the Birth Defects clinic, providing antenatal counselling and multidisciplinary palliative care for families with life-limiting foetal conditions. From 2015, managed the Down Syndrome clinic, supporting families from antenatal stages.

She hold academic appointments as Adjunct Assistant Professor and Clinical Lecturer across three medical schools, teaching medical students, nursing students, and residents. As Clinical Physician Faculty of SingHealth Paediatrics Residency Programme, she received the Outstanding Faculty Award in 2022.

• MRCPCh (UK) 2006
• MBBS Stanley Medical College Chennai, India 1985

• Senior Consultant, Department of Neonatology, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore 2021-Present
• Member, Bereavement Support Committee
• Member, Birth Defect Committee, Neonatal Representative
• Member, Ambulatory Committee, KKH 2014-present

• Outstanding Educator award – Residency 2022
• Gold Award – Singapore Health Quality Services 2022

• AJ Anand, MC Chua, Devaki V, R Rai, B Sriram, Edwin Thia, VS Rajadurai, S Chandran
  Outcomes of Antenatally Detected Omphalocele and Gastroschisis: A single centre study over 11 years. Singapore Medical Journal 2025
• Case Report: Lethal Neonatal form of CPT11Deficiency in consecutive pregnancies:fetal-neonatal characteristics, biochemical and molecular review
  YY Tan, KG Tewani, AJ Anand, CxKong, VS Rajadurai, S.Chandran
  Frontier Pediatr.,18 Nov 2025
• Clinical Guideline for the management of Down Syndrome in Singapore
  Kavitha Sothirasan1 , Amudha Jayanthi Anand 1,2,3,4, Melvin Peng Wei Chua 5,6, Poh Choo Khoo 1,2,3,4, and Mei Chien Chua 1,2,3,4,
  Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare, Volume 31: 1–6,2022
• Pneumatosis COLI IN preterm Neonates: Can they be managed more conservatively to maintain the intestinal milieu?
  Lee EY1, Ma E1, AnandAJ 1,2,3,4, S Chandran1,2,3,4
  BMJ case reports Volume 15, Issue8 CP2022; 15:e250274.
• AJ Anand, K Sabapathy, B Sriram, VS Rajadurai, PK Agarwal
  Single Center Outcome of Multiple Births in the Premature and Very Low Birth Weight Cohort in Singapore
  American Journal of Perinatology2022
  JFI:1.862 Times Cited: 5
• S Chandran, AA Jayanthi, RV Samuel, SE Saffari, KP Choo, CM Chien
  Evidence Based Practices Reduce Necrotizing Enterocolitis and Improve Nutritional Outcomes in Very Low Birth Weight Infants
  Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition 2021JFI: 3.151 Times Cited: 32
• K Sothirasan, AJ Anand, R Mittal, PC Khoo, S Chandran
  Emotional and Behavioural disorders in a cohort with Down syndrome using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: A pilot study
  Heliyon 6 (10), e050952020
  JIF: 2.85
• Geetha O, Rajadurai VS, Anand AJ, Rowena Dela Puerta, Bin Huey Quek, Poh Choo Khoo, Mei Chien Chua, Pratibha Agarwal
  New BPD-prevalence and risk factors for broncho-pulmonary dysplasia/mortality in extremely low gestational age infants ≤28 weeks.
  Journal of Perinatology 2021
  JIF: 1.967
  EN Vidal, VS Rajadurai, AJ Anand, S Chandran
  Listeriosis during pregnancy and in newborns: 18 years of data from a large tertiary hospital in Singapore
  Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society 9 (4), 498-50112020
  JIF: 2.2
• Perinatal Palliative Care Service: Developing a Comprehensive Care Package for Vulnerable Babies with Life Limiting Fetal Conditions
  Journal of Palliative Care 10/2021;  DOI:10.1177/08258597211046735
  Komal G Tewani · Pooja A Jayagobi · Suresh Chandran · Amudha J Anand
• MC Chua, SH Khoo, PL Yuen, MCW Fong, A Goh, P Agarwal
  Early discharge planning in preterm low birth weight babies: A quality improvement project
  Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare 26 (2), 98-10132017
  JFI: 0.210 Times Cited:6