Our Researchers

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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

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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
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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
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Derrick Chan Wei Shih

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

Research Interests

  • Epilepsy
  • EEG
  • Pediatric Neurology
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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
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Tan Ee Shien

Head & Senior Consultant, Department of Paediatrics, Genetics Service

Research Interests

  • Genetics of Mental Retardation
  • In Born Errors of Metabolism
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Angeline Lai Hwei Meeng

Senior Consultant, Department of Paediatrics, Genetics Service

Research Interests

  • Clinical Cytogenetics
  • Microdeletion Syndromes
  • Dysmorphology
  • Genetic Counselling
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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
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Anne Goh Eng Neo

Head & Senior Consultant, Department of Paediatrics, Allergy Service

Research Interests

  • Asthma
  • Allergy
  • Respiratory Infectious Disease
  • Sleep
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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)