Dr Cherie Chua

Dr Cherie Chua graduated from Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, in 2016. She underwent Singhealth Paediatric Residency training from 2017-2023 and was trained in KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital and Singapore General Hospital. During her years of training, she served in the Singhealth Residency Committee from 2017-2019 and as Chief Registrar in 2020. She was awarded Membership to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (UK) and Master of Medicine, Paediatric (Singapore) in 2020. She received Specialist Accreditation in 2023.

She is currently a Consultant in the Paediatric Endocrinology service, with a keen interest in paediatric bone health and disorders including primary and secondary bone fragility disorders, disorders of calcium and phosphate metabolism and rare bone diseases. She is a team member of the Growing Up in Singapore Towards Healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) and Healthy Early Life Moments in Singapore (HELMS) projects, which aim to understand and improve maternal and child health in Singapore.

Committed to medical education, she is actively involved in undergraduate teaching and training of the general paediatric residents.

• MBBS (Singapore) 2016
• MMed (Singapore) (Paediatric Medicine) 2020
• MRCPCH (UK) 2020

• Consultant, Department of Paediatric Medicine (Endocrinology service), KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital
• Member, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH)
• Member, European Society of Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE)
• Member, Asia Pacific Paediatric Endocrine Society (APPES)

• 26^th Asia-Pacific Paediatric Endocrine Society Fellow School Best Case Presentation, APPES, 2025
• Paediatric ACP Tan Cheng Lim Research & Education Fund Grant Singhealth Paediatric ACP,  Co-Investigator, 2025
• SingHealth AM Research Start Up Grant, Singhealth Paediatric ACP, Principal Investigator, 2024
• Quality Practice Improvement and Innovation 1st Prize, Singhealth-Duke Paediatric ACP, 2023
• Best Quality Improvement Project Award, Singhealth-Duke NUS, 2022
• Best Resident tutor Award, Singhealth Paediatric Residency, 2021
• J. M. Gomez Faculty Development Fund in Patient Safety and Clinical Quality, Co-Investigator, 2020
• SingHealth Outstanding Resident Award, Singhealth Paediatric Residency, 2020

• Chua C, CSH Tan, SC Lim, RF Vasanwala. A Unique Phenotype of Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the Young with a Novel Disease-causing Insulin Gene Varient. JCEM Case Reports. December 2024. doi: 10.1210/jcemcr/luae230
• Chan D, Chua C, Loh C, et al. Paediatric Obesity Evaluation for Metabolic Susceptibility (POEMS)BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care 2023;11:e003228.
• Geetha, Chua C, Tan WHN, K Merchant, Chua MC, S Chandran. Streptococcus gallolyticus subspecies pasteurianus causing early onset neonatal sepsis complicated by solitary liver abscess in a preterm infant. Access Microbiology 2021; 3:0002000
• ZX Khoo, C Chua, ZM Yap, JC Koh, SX Chong, NHY Wijedasa, K Peng, CY Chong. A retrospective review of serious infections in febrile infants 0-90 days old. Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare 1-8 2021
• Cherie C, Grace Tan M, Cheo Lian Y. A Review of the use of Ultrasound Imaging of the Spine in Neonates with Sacral Cutaneous Findings. Ann Pediatr Res. 2021; 5(1): 1053