Dr Rashida Farhad Vasanwala

Dr Rashida F Vasanwala is currently working as a Senior Consultant in the Department of Paediatric Medicine, Endocrine Service at KK Women's and Children's Hospital. She obtained M.D. (Paediatrics with gold medal) from India and MRCPCH from U.K. She started working in Singapore since June 2002 at KK Women's & Children's Hospital, initially at Children’s Emergency and then pursued & completed her advanced training in Paediatric Medicine & Endocrinology. She did her CPIP project on optimizing care of Children with head injury and was awarded best project of the year at the SingHealth Quality Convention in 2008. She has keen interest in research and has presented posters & papers in international conferences and published articles in international journals. She received the best case presentation award at the APPES Paediatric Endocrinology meet in 2008, Endocrine Trainee Day and Outstanding Abstract award by the Endocrine Society in 2010 & 2011 respectively. She is a passionate teacher and actively involved in the undergraduate and post-graduate teaching. She was awarded the Outstanding Faculty Rise award for academic year 2012-2013, 2016-2017, 2018-2019 by SingHealth residency. She was awarded Special Recognition Award for being a Role Model to the Medicine Graduating Class of 2018 by National University of Singapore. She has also received awards for clinical service in the form of EXSA Silver Service Quality Medal 2007, Singapore Health Quality Service Award Silver (2011-2012), Gold (2012-2013), Star award (2015-2016), Service from the Heart Award 2013, 2014, 2015 and Long Service award (10 years) in 2012. Besides academics she is happily married and blessed with two children. Her favorite hobbies are cooking and travelling.

• MD (Paediatrics) 1996
• MRCPCH (2001)
• FRCPCH (2015)

• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School
• Physician Faculty, ACGME-1, Singhealth Paediatric Residency
• Core Faculty, Transitional Year, SingHealth Residency
• Site Tutor, SingHealth and NHG Endocrinology Senior Residency
• Examiner, Advanced Paediatric Nurse (APN), Exam Committee
  
• Fellow, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, UK
• Member, Asia Pacific Paediatric Endocrine Society (APPES)
• Member, Endocrine Society, USA
• Member, Singapore Medical Association
• Member, European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE)
• Member, Academic Medical Education Institute (AMEI)
• Member, Academic Medicine Research Institute (AMRI)
  

• Outstanding Faculty Award, SingHealth Residency
• Singapore Health Quality Service Award, Star Award
• Service from the Heart Award
  
  

• Review of current local healthcare practices for bone health in children with long term neurological conditions, pre and post guideline implementation, Feb 2018 - ongoing
• Quality of life in Children, Youth and Caregivers with chronic illness, April 2018
• Adrenocortical tumors in children: A case series, Feb 2018-Ongoing
• Vitamin D status in children with diabetes and its effects on glycaemic control and metabolic health, April 2018-To start
• Rare Endocrine Conditions Beginning in Early Childhood, April 2018
  

• Primary Osteoporosis in children
  Lay Ong Tan, Soo Yen Lim, Rashida Farhad Vasanwala
  BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-220700
  
• Cockayne Syndrome due to a maternally –inherited whole gene deletion of ERCC8 and a paternally- inherited ERCC8 exon 4 deletion
  TW Ting, MS Brett,ES Tan,Y Shen, P Lee,EC Lim, RF Vasanwala, N Lek, T Thomas,KW Lim, EC Tan
  Gene 2015;572(2)
  
• Pseudohypoparathyroidism:phenotypic spectrum in kindred
  Antonette AA Natino, Rashida Vasanwala
  International Journal of Paediatric Endocrinology 2015;(Suppl 1):P 84
• D-buddy peer support for better health outcomes in adolescents with diabetes mellitus
  Pei Kwee Lim, Tuck Seng Cheng, Yuen Ching Angela Hui, Soo Ting Joyce Lim, Ngee Lek, Fabian Yap, Rashida Vasanwala
  International Journal of Paediatric Endocrinology 2015; (Suppl 1):P 15