Our Researchers - Division of Medicine

Division of Medicine

Chua Mei Chien

Head & Senior Consultant, Department of Neonatology

Research Interests

Impact of Nutrition in newborn period on growth and development especially in premature newborns
Optimising Nutritional Intake in Preterm Infants
Programming Effect of Nutrition on Long-Term Health
Promotion of Breastfeeding

Articles in PubMed

Victor Samuel Rajadurai

Senior Consultant, Department of Neonatology

Research Interests

Neonatal Encephalopathy
Persisted Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn
Assisted Ventilation
Infant of Diabetic Mothers and Newborn Screening

Articles in PubMed

Phua Kong Boo

Emeritus Consultant, Department of Paediatrics, Gastroenterology Service

Research Interests

Rotavirus Vaccine
Diarrhea in Children
Epidemiology of Rotavirus Diarrhea
Intussusception
Cholestatic Jaundice in Infancy

Articles in PubMed

Derrick Chan Wei Shih

Director, KK Research Centre
Head & Senior Consultant, Department of Paediatrics, Neurology Service

Research Interests

Epilepsy
EEG
Pediatric Neurology

Articles in PubMed

Tan Ah Moy

Senior Consultant, Department of Paediatrics Haematology/Oncology Service

Research Interests

Blood and Marrow Transplantation in Children
Cancer in Adolescent
Cord Blood Transplant and Germ Cell Tumours

Articles in PubMed

Tan Ee Shien

Head & Senior Consultant, Department of Paediatrics, Genetics Service

Research Interests

Genetics of Mental Retardation
In Born Errors of Metabolism

Articles in PubMed

Angeline Lai Hwei Meeng

Senior Consultant, Department of Paediatrics, Genetics Service

Research Interests

Clinical Cytogenetics
Microdeletion Syndromes
Dysmorphology
Genetic Counselling

Articles in PubMed

Law Hai Yang

Chief Scientific Officer, Department of Paediatrics, Genetics Service

Research Interests

Spectra of mutation causing alpha and beta-thalassaemia in Singapore
Effective screening strategy for thalassaemia mutation
Molecular basis of common genetic diseases

Articles in PubMed

Anne Goh Eng Neo

Head & Senior Consultant, Department of Paediatrics, Allergy Service

Research Interests

Asthma
Allergy
Respiratory Infectious Disease
Sleep

Articles in PubMed

Chong Chia Yin

Senior Consultant, Department of Paediatrics, Infectious Disease Service

Research Interests

Invasive Pneumococcal Disease
Entervirus Diseases
Meningitis
Tuberculosis
HIV
Vaccine Complications
Employee Health and Staff Vaccination

Articles in PubMed

Thoon Koh Cheng

Senior Consultant, Department of Paediatrics, Infectious Diseases Services

Research Interests

Mainly Infectious Diseases
Current specific interests include: epidemiology of vaccine preventable diseases, vaccine safety and surveillance, vaccine and drug trials (industry sponsored), non-tuberculous and tuberculous mycobacterial diseases and other minor stuff like epidemiology of hospital acquired infections and multiple infectious diseases (smaller projects)

Articles in PubMed

Chao Sing Ming

Senior Consultant, Department of Paediatrics, Nephrology Service

Research Interests

Childhood Urinary Tract Infection and Reflux Nephropathy
Enuresis and Voiding Dysfunction in Children
Childhood Lupus Nephritis

Articles in PubMed

Lee Jan Hau

Senior Consultant, Department of Paediatric Subspecialties, Children’s Intensive Care Unit

Research Interests

Nutrition in Critically III Children
Paediatric Sepsis and Septic shock
Acute Lung Injury

Articles in PubMed

Tan Ene Choo

Principal Scientific Officer, KK Research Centre

Research Interests

Genetics of neurological and congenital disorders
Genetic variants in susceptibility to multi-factorial disorders and traits
Pattern of genomic variations in the human genome

Articles in PubMed

Mohammad Ashik Bin Zainuddin

Head & Senior Consultant, Sport and Exercise Medicine

Research Interests

Paediatric Trauma
Sports Injuries
Patella Instability
Multiligament Knee Injuries

Fabian Yap Kok Peng

Head & Senior Consultant, Endocrinology Service

Research Interests

Clinical Diabetes
Developmental Origins of Metabolic Disease
How Children Grow and Transform into Adults

Biju Thomas

Senior Consultant, Respiratory Medicine Service

Research Interests

Asthma
Paediatric Sleep Medicine
Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia

Ivy Ng Swee Lian

Senior Consultant, Genetics Service

Research Interests

Molecular Genetics
ß-Thalassaemia Mutations & Strategies in Screening
DNA Profiling and its Application in Prenatal Diagnosis
Trinucleotide Repeat Diseases
Next Generation Sequencing
Dysmorphology

Chong Shu-Ling

Senior Staff Physician, Children's Emergency

Research Interests

Clinical Prediction Rules for the Emergency Physician – How do these affect patient care?
Trauma Research – specifically paediatric head injury

Judith Wong Ju-Ming

Consultant, Children's Intensive Care Unit

Research Interests

Paediatric Intensive Care Unit
Mechanical Ventilation
Acute Lung Injury/Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Yung Chee Fu

Senior Consultant, Infectious Disease Service

Research Interests

Infectious Diseases
Vaccinology
Outbreak Control
Epidemiology
Public Health Medicine

Chiou Fang Kuan

Head ＆ Senior Consultant, Gastroenterology, Hepatology ＆ Nutrition Service

Research Interests

Non-alcohol fatty liver disease
Variceal haemorrhage in children with biliary atresia
Biliary Atresia management
Paediatric Acute Liver Failure
Eosinophilic/allergic gastrointestinal disorders
Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder in paediatric solid organ transplantation
Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte therapy in post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease
Paediatric Autoimmune Hepatitis

Elaine Chew Chu Shan

Senior Consultant, Adolescent Medicine Service

Research Interests

Childhood and Adolescent Obesity
Adolescent Eating Disorders

Saumya Shekhar Jamuar

Senior Consultant, Genetics Service

Research Interests

Genetic Disorders
Precision Medicine
Neurodevelopmental Genetics

Gene Ong Yong-Kwang

Senior Consultant, Children's Emergency

Research Interests

Paediatric Resuscitation
Paediatric Trauma
Paediatric Toxicology
Point-of-care Ultrasound in Paediatric Emergencies

Yeo Kee Thai

Consultant, Neonatology

Research Interests

Preterm Immunome and Immune Ontogeny
Elucidation of mechanisms of prematurity related to antenatal inflammation
Epidemiology of Neonatal Infections

Yeo Joo Guan

Consultant, Division of Medicine

Research Interests

Holistic interrogation of childhood onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus immunome for the elucidation of disease mechanism

Salvatore Albani

Senior Consultant, Division of Medicine

Research Interests

Translational mediicine
Understanding human immunity and exploiting the knowledge for therapeutic and diagnostic advancements

Thaschawee Arkachaisri

Head & Senior Consultant, Rheumatology and Immunology Service

Research Interests

Characteristic, prognostic features and outcomes in enthesitis related arthritis
Outcomes of childhood onset rheumatic diseases
Localized Scleroderma Outcome Measure Development

Lek Ngee

Senior Consultant, Endocrinology Service

Research Interests

Pathogenesis, heterogeneity and natural history of various forms of diabetes melitus
Spectrum and range of complexity in disorders of sex development
Early life programming and development origins, of, and sex dimorphism in, health and disease
Childhood obesity, growth and puberty

Michaela Seng Su-Fern

Consultant Haematology/Oncology Service

Research Interests

Haematopietic cell transplant
Cellular therapy
Relapsed/Refractory Cancers

Wong Chui Mae

Senior Consultant, Department of Child Development and Neonatology

Research Interests

Autologous Umbilical Cord Blood Reinfusion for the Treatment of Autism Outcomes of children presenting with developmental delays
Screen Time and Sleep Habits in Preschool Children in Singapore
Comorbidity of ASD and ADHD symptomatology in pre-school children in Singapore
Intranasal Oxytocin for Autism Spectrum Disorder

Lourdes Mary Daniel

Head ＆ Senior Consultant, Department of Child Development

Research Interests

Long term outcome of Very Low birth weight infants
Developmental, Learning and behavioral outcomes of high risk children
Universal Newborn Hearing Screening

Pratibha Keshav Agarwal

Senior Consultant, Department of Child Development

Research Interests

Perinatal High Risk Consult
Long term follow up of high risk preterm neonate

Mark Koh Jean Aan

Head ＆ Senior Consultant, Dermatology Service

Research Interests

Atopic Dermalitis
Genodermatoses
Paediatric Vascular Lesions

Joyce Lam Ching Mei

Senior Consultant, Haematology/Oncology Service

Research Interests

Neurocognitive and social outcomes from acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) treatments
Epidemiology of bleeding disorders in children
Pharmacokinetic studies of aprepitant in paediatric and adolescent cancer patients
Cross-sectional study on the clinical and social outcomes of transfusion dependent Thalassaemia patients in Singapore

Soh Shui Yen

Head ＆ Senior Consultant, Haematology/Oncology Service

Research Interests

Paediatric Brain and Solid Tumours
Immuno-oncology and Immunotherapies

Teoh Oon Hoe

Head ＆ Senior Consultant, Respiratory Medicine Service

Research Interests

Paediatric Pulmonology
Paediatric Sleep
Air pollution and tobacco smoke
Paediatric Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing

Teo Wan Yee

Clinician Scientist, Division of Medicine

Research Interests

Brain Tumors in Childhood
Patient-derived Orthotopic Xenograft Modelling of Brain Tumors
Preclinical Drug Testing
Genomics
Adult Brain Tumors (particularly Glioblastoma)