Our Researchers

Alex Sia Tiong Heng

Chief Executive Officer, KKH
Senior Consultant, Department of Women's Anaesthesia

Research Interests

• Computer Integrated Patient Controlled Analgesia
• Genetics of Pain
• Obstetric Anaesthesia

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Sng Ban Leong

Head & Senior Consultant, Department of Women’s Anaesthesia

Research Interests

• Obstetric Anaesthesia and Analgesia
• Pain Medicine
• Novel Drug Delivery Systems

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Eileen Lew

Chairman, Division of Clinical Support Services, KKH
Senior Consultant, Department of Women's Anaesthesia

Research Interests

• Computerized Preanaesthesia Health Screening to Improve
  Patient Outcomes
• Modes of Epidural Labour Analgesia
• The Learning Curve of Anaesthesiology Residents in Acquiring
  Epidural Skills
• Patient Blood Management in Pregnancy                                                                 

Teo Sze Yiun

Senior Consultant, Department of Diagnostic Imaging

Research Interests

• Breast Disease:
  Evaluation of breast disease using different imaging modalities
  including elastography, digital tomosynthesis, contrast enhanced
  spectral mammography (CESM), whole breast  automated
  ultrasound, thermal imaging and advanced MRI applications
• Women’s Disease:
  Evaluation of gynaecological disease, especially oncological
  disease with sono-elastography, dual-energy CT, advanced MRI&
  applications                                                                                                                    

Ong Chiou Li

Senior Consultant, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging

Research Interests

• Sonographical features in gynaecological diseases
• Real-time transvaginal sono-elastography in the diagnosis of
  myometrial and cervical stroma invasion in women
  with endometrial cancer
• Novel ultrasound techniques in diagnosis of gynaecological
  diseases                                                                                                                           

Tang Phua Hwee

Senior Consultant, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging

Research Interests

• Development and Testing of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  Methods at 3 Tesla
• Pre-imaging Patient Preparation using videos and games
• Correlation between Imaging findings and histology of Childhood
  tumours                                                                                                                          

Marielle V. Fortier

Senior Consultant, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging     

Research Interests

• Body Composition in Neonates- A Sub-study
  under Developmental Pathways to Metabolic Disease
• Study Women’s and Children's Health by Magnetic Resonance
  Imaging
• The reliability test of 3T MR scanner for longitudinal cohort
  studies under translational clinical research program                                              

Kenneth Chang Tou En

Head ＆ Senior Consultant, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Research Interests

• VIVA-KKH paediatric brain and solid tumours programme
• Molecular analysis of paediatric tumours
• Placental pathology
• The regulatory factors of Hippo tumour suppressor pathway and
  their roles in cancer development
• Cancer stem cell, oncogenic pathway and modelling of human
  neuoblastoma and other cancers                                                                                 

Matthias Gotthard Maiwald

Senior Consultant, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Research Interests

• Microbiological aspects relevant to women's and children's health 
• Molecular detection and characterization of fastidious and
  emerging pathogens
• Infection control, with an emphasis on hand hygiene and skin                                
  antisepsis
  

Chew Sung Hock

Senior Consultant, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Research Interests

• Quantitative analysis of extracapsular extension of metastatic
  lymph nodes and its significance in radiotherapy planning in
  carcinoma of the cervix
• Detection of circulating tumour cells from gynaecological cancer                            
  patients

Adele Wong Pek Choo

Consultant, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Research Interests

• Clinico-pathological study of Grade 3 Endometrial Endometrioid
  Carcinomas with POLE gene mutation in Asians
• The role of noncoding RNAs in cellular functions in endometrial
  cancers as a model for oestrogen dependent gynaecological and                            
  breast cancers

Paul Tan Hon Sen

Associate Consultant, Women's Anaesthesia

Research Interests

• Acute and Chronic Pain
• Medical Device Innovation
• Novel Drug Delivery Systems