Adj Asst Prof Yeo Yen Ching

MB ChB (Ireland), FRC Path (RCPath, UK)

Senior Consultant

Head, Histopathology & Cytology Service & Senior Consultant

KK Women's and Children's Hospital

Specialty/Department: Pathology ＆ Laboratory Medicine, Histopathology

Clinical Interest: Histopathology, Cytology

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Senior Consultant Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine KK Women's and Children's Hospital

Profile

Adj Asst Prof Yeo Yen Ching is a Histopathologist and Cytologist with an interest in Gynecological Pathology, Gynecological Cytology and Non-Gynecological Cytopathology. She has previously… View More +

Education

FRCPath (UK) 2008
MRCPath (UK) 2003
MB BCh BAO University College of Dublin 1997

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Head, Histopathology and Cytology Service & Senior Consultant, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, KKH
Adjunct Assistant Professor Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School
Clinical Physician Faculty Member SingHealth Pathology Residency Programme.
Site User Director, Cluster Laboratory Information System (LIS) Project, SingHealth 2019 – Present
Senior Consultant, Department of Pathology, Sengkang General Hospital 2019 – Present
Member, ACP Quality Improvement Committee, SingHealth 2018 – Present
Senior Consultant, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, KKH 2015 – Present

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Awards

SingHealth Residency RiSE Outstanding Faculty Award, 2019

Research Interests

Cell Biology
Identification of cancer susceptibility genes

Publications

Endometrial osteo-cartilagenous metaplasia: A case report and review of the literature. Yeo Yen Ching, Mihir Gudi, Josefa E. O. Vella. International Journal of Clinicopathological Correlation
2 cases of extra-uterine Mullerian adenosarcoma arising from pelvic endometriosis. Ng Zheng Yuan, Yeo Yen Ching, Timothy Lim, Ieera Aggarwal. Journal of Gynecologic Surgery (Accepted for publication, Acceptance letter manuscript attached with CV)
A case study of gastric type adenocarcinoma-in-situ of the uterine cervix. Tay A, Mihir AG,Lim YK, Wu BC, Tan SLJ, Aw MH, Yeo YC. Cytopathology. 2018 Nov 12.
Laproscopic management of a rare case of mature cystic teratoma with immature neural tissue and literature review. Sharon Anqi Foo, Yen Ching Yeo, Shahul Hameed Mohamed Siraj Journal of Medical Cases Volume 9, Number 12, December 2018, pgs 390-392
Lactational adenoma: A diagnostic pitfall in fine needle aspiration cytology. Wu Bingcheng, Yeo Yen Ching, Tay Zhi En Amos, Yan Zhiyan, Mihir Gudi International Journal of Clinicopathological Correlation. 2017 Jul 1;1(2):47.
Validation of digital pathology imaging for primary histopathological diagnosis. Snead D R J, Tsang Y-W, Meskiri A, Kimani P K, Crossman R, Rajpoot N M, Blessing E, Chen K, Gopalakrishnan K, Matthews P, Momtahan N, Read-Jones S, Sah S, Simmons E, Sinha B, Suortamo S, Yeo Y, El Daly H & Cree I A (2016) Histopathology 68, 1063–1072. Won the Roger Cotton Prize for best published paper in Histopathology 2016.
Identification of brown adipose tissue using MR imaging in a human adult with histological and immunohistochemical confirmation. Narendra L. Reddy, Terence A. Jones, Sarah C. Wayte, Oludolapo Adesanya, Sailesh Sankar, Yen C. Yeo, Gyanendra Tripathi, Philip G. McTernan, Harpal S. Randeva, Sudhesh Kumar, Charles E. Hutchinson, and Thomas M. Barber. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism Jan 2014; 1;99(1):E117-21. The abstract also won the runner up prize in The Physiological Society of Brown Fat Meeting in London 2012. The oral presentation also won first prize in the Midlands Endocrine Club in Birmingham 2013.
Unequivocal Identification of brown adipose tissue in an adult human using MRI Jones T, Reddy N, Wayte S, Adesanya O, Yeo Y. Unequivocal identification of brown adipose tissue in an adult human using MRI. Clinical Radiology. 2013 Sep 68:S2
Cadherin switching dictates the biology of transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder: ex vivo and in vitro studies. RT Bryan, PA Atherford, Y Yeo, LJ Jones, RF Harrison, DMA Wallace, JA Jankowski. J Pathology 2008, June; 215(2):184-194
A rationale for membrane peeling in the repair of stage 4 macular holes. A Ang, DRJ Snead, S James, YC Yeo, K Satchi, AHC Morris, AV Poulson, JD Scott and MP Snead. Eye 20 (2), 208, (2006), 1-7
Antigen processing and correlation with immunological response in vulval intraepithelial neoplasia--a study of CD1a, CD54 and LN3 expression. Singh K, Yeo Y, Honest H, Ganesan R, Luesley D. Gynecologic Oncology 2006, Sep;102(3):489-492. Epub 2006 Mar 3.
A Case of Ovarian Fibromatosis and Massive Ovarian Oedema Associated with Intra-Abdominal Fibromatosis, Sclerosing Peritonitis and Meig’s Syndrome. Emma L. Spurrell, Yen C. Yeo, Terence P. Rollason and Ian R. Judson. Sarcoma, December 2004, Vol. 8, No.4, 113-121

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Research Trials

Development of Three-dimensional Patient-Derived Organoids for Breast and Ovarian for Cancer Research and Drug Development, 2019 – Present
Detection of circulating tumour cells from gynaecological cancer, 2018 – Present
Clinicopathologic correlation and molecular analysis of ovarian sex cord stromal tumours with an emphasis on Sertoli-Leydig tumours, 2018 – Present
HPV Genotyping and Biomarkers in women with ASC-US Cytology, 2017 – Present
The role of real-time transvaginal sono-elastography in the diagnosis of myometrial and cervical stroma invasion in women with endometrial cancer, 2015 – Present