Tan, Thean Yen

	Title		:   Clinical Associate Professor
	Address		:   Department of Laboratory Medicine     Changi General Hospital     2 Simei Street 3, Singapore 529889
	Email		:   tan.thean.yen@singhealth.com.sg
	Contact No.		:   6850 4934 (Office)
	Current Position		:   Senior Consultant, Department of Laboratory      Medicine, Changi General Hospital     Deputy Vice Chair, Research, Pathology Academic Clinical     Programme     Clinical Associate Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School

Research interest:

Antimicrobial resistance, infection control, clinical diagnostics, molecular microbiology.

Selected Publications:

1. Tan TY, Ng LS, He J, Koh TH, Hsu LY. Evaluation of screening methods to detect plasmid-mediated AmpC in Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Proteus mirabilis. Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy. 2009 Jan 1;53(1):146-9.
2. Tan TY, Ng LS, Tan E, Huang G. In vitro effect of minocycline and colistin combinations on imipenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates. Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy. 2007 May 31;60(2):421-3.
3. Tan TY, Ng SY, He J. Microbiological characteristics, presumptive identification, and antibiotic susceptibilities of Staphylococcus lugdunensis. Journal of clinical microbiology. 2008 Jul 1;46(7):2393-5.
4. Tan TY, Lim TP, Lee WH, Sasikala S, Hsu LY, Kwa AL. In vitro antibiotic synergy in extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii: the effect of testing by time-kill, checkerboard, and Etest methods. Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy. 2011 Jan 1;55(1):436-8.
5. Tan TY, Ng LS, Kwang LL. Evaluation of disc susceptibility tests performed directly from positive blood cultures. Journal of clinical pathology. 2008 Mar 1;61(3):343-6.