Adj Asst Prof Sandra Mascarenhas

Dr Sandra Mascarenhas has been working in the Department of Child Development, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital since July 2014.  She completed her higher specialist training  in Paediatrics and Community Child Health, UK and obtained  the Certificate of Completion of Training(CCT) in 2013. Her area of interest is in Paediatric Behavioural health and Neurodisability.

She leads the department program of developmental follow-up care for children with complex congenital heart conditions. She is involved in multiagency working and contributes to the Ministry of Education’s school placement program for children with moderate to profound hearing loss. She has keen interest in paediatric ADHD. She is a fellow member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, UK.

• CCT (Paediatrics and Community Child Health), UK, 2013
• MRCPCH (UK) 2003
• MD (PAEDS), Bangalore, 2000

• Senior Consultant, Department of Child Development, 2021- Present
• Consultant, Department of Child Development, 2016-21
• Associate Consultant, Department of Child Development, Jul 2014-16

• Team excellence award – Merit award at 30th KKH PI forum-– Improving wait time for DCD doctors follow up consultation, KKH April 2016

• Ramalingam, Chitra Gangadharan, Lim Jiin Ying, Goh Jeannette, Lan Sylvia, Thomas Terrence, Mascarenhas Sandra Sylvia, Jamuar, Saumya Shekhar. EBF3- related neurodevelopment disorder affecting an individual of Singaporean Arab and Malay origin: case report and review of the literature. Clnical Dysmorphology.34(4):126-130, Oct 2025.
• Zhang YH, Mascarenhas SS, Daniel LM. Demographic and clinical profile of preschool children with Selective Mutism in Singapore. Short Communication, SMJ Singapore on May 11, 2023.
• S. Mascarenhas, P Aggarwal, M Daniel. Child Development screening- 18month to 4 years old; Singapore Family Practice 2020; 46 (5): 11-16
• Dypti Lulla, Sandra Sylvia Mascarenhas, Choon How How, Sita Padmini Yeleswarapu, An approach to problem behaviours in children. Singapore Med J 2019; 60(4): 168-172.
• Sandra Sylvia Mascarenhas, Rajesh Moorakonda, Pratibha Agarwal, Sok Bee Lim, Sonoko Sensaki, Chong Yap Seng, John Carson Allen, Lourdes Mary Daniel, Characteristics, and influence of Home Literacy Environment in Early Childhood Centered Literacy Orientation –Journal Proceedings of Singapore health care, Oct 2016
• R Forsyth, Tom C Paine, S Mascarenhas, Monoaminergic Agonists in Traumatic Brain Injury, Cochrane Review 2011 Oct 18 (4)