Clin Asst Prof Sharline Suhumaran

Clinical Assistant Professor Sharline is a Senior Consultant Developmental Paediatrician at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH), Singapore. She graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) with a Bachelor’s degree in Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) in 2010. She received her post-graduate specialist training in Paediatric Medicine in KKH and was awarded the Master of Medicine in Paediatrics (MMed Paeds, Singapore) and the Membership of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (MRCPCH, United Kingdom) in 2014. She has also received certification in Paediatrics from the American Board of Medical Specialties (Singapore). She attained her Specialist Accreditation by the Joint Committee on Specialist Training in Paediatrics in 2018.

Upon completion of her Paediatric training, she joined the Department of Childhood Development (DCD), KKH in July 2018. Academically and professionally, she has special interests in early predictors of developmental delays as well as psychosocial and environmental stressors and their correlation with neurocognitive and neurobehavioural outcomes in children. Her clinical work focuses on learning and behavioural difficulties in children, as well as neurodevelopmental conditions such as ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Dr Sharline was awarded the Singhealth Health Manpower Development Plan fellowship for a yearlong placement at Evelina Children’s Hospital (Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust), London, United Kingdom where she focused on preschool learning and behaviour in children with complex or chronic medical problems.  Since her return in September 2024, she has established clinical workflows with the KKH Respiratory Medicine and Dermatology teams. She is currently developing a behavioural sleep clinic for children with neurodevelopmental disorders in conjunction with the KKH Respiratory team and hopes to advance KKH Dermatology-DCD work to include rare-skin disorders, neurocutaneous syndromes along with the moderate to severe eczema patients presenting with behaviour or learning difficulties.

• Master of Medicine in Paediatrics (Spore)
  
• MRCPCH, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (UK)
  
• MBBS (Spore)
  

• Senior Consultant, Department of Child Development, KK Women's and Children's Hospital
• Clinical Assistant Professor with SingHealth Duke-NUS Paediatrics Academic Clinical Programme (PAEDS ACP), Office of Academic Medicine in Duke-NUS Medical School
• Clinical Lecturer, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
• Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at the Nanyang Technological University
• Chair of SingHealth Epic Implementation Developmental-Behavioural Pediatrics Specialty Content Workgroup, Department of Child Development, KK Women's and Children's Hospital
• Senior Clinical Fellow / Children’s Neurosciences, Evelina Children’s Hospital, London, UK, Sept 2023-2024
• Patient Safety Lead, Department of Child Development, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, 2018-2020

• Top scorer in MRCPCH/MMed clinical examination and recipient of Nestle Book Prize (2014)
• Residency in SingHealth Excels (RiSE) Award 2014
• Conferred the Degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery and attained results in the top 15 percent of the graduating class of 2010
  

• Knowledge and awareness of autism spectrum disorder among paediatricians and primary healthcare professionals in Singapore. Suhumaran S, Leong G, Wong CM. Asia Pacific Journal of Pediatrics and Child Health Volume 4, Jul - Sep 2021.
• Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease in children. Selvanathan SN, Suhumaran S, Sahu VK, Chong CY, Tan NWH, Thoon KC. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. 2020;56(3):389-393.
• Congenital blindness and autism spectrum disorder (ASD): diagnostic challenges and intervention options. Suhumaran S, Yeleswarapu SP, Daniel LM, Wong CM. BMJ Case Reports. 2020;13(2):e232981. Published 2020 Feb 11