SingHealth Medical Student Talent Development Award -SMSTDA- Awardees

Year/Cycle	Student Awardee	Surgery ACP Mentor	Project Title
FY15 Cycle 1	How Guo Yuan	Dr Amos Loh Hong Pheng	MYOD Mutation and NCOA2 Gene Rearrangement in Rhabdomyosacroma
FY15 Cycle 1	Hay Aik Siew Robyn	Assoc Prof Tay Shian Chao Vincent	A Biomechanical Analysis of Tensile Distribution in 6-strand Lim-Tsai Flexor Tendon Repais
FY15 Cycle 2	Goh Jia Ying	Dr Sophia Chew	The Effect of Pre-operative Anemia versus Intra-operative Anemia on the Incidence of Acute Kidney Injury after Cardiac Surgery in an Asian Population
FY15 Cycle 2	Goh Seow Hng Graham	Assoc Prof Lo Ngai Nung	Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty Achieves Greater Flexion with No Difference in Satisfaction at Two Years Versus Total Knee Arthroplasty in Patients Younger than 55 Years Old
FY16 Cycle 2	Tan Xin Zhong Timothy	Adj Asst Prof Wong Ting Hway	Injury in the Over 55: A Prospective Pilot Study of Impact of Injury on Health, Healthcare Utilisation and Caregiver Burden for Older Patients after for Moderate and Severe Injury
FY16 Cycle 2	Khoo Chun Yuet	Adj Assoc Prof Goh Kim Poh Brian	Systematic Review of studies validating current prognostication systems for gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs)
FY17 Cycle 2	Ralene Sim	Adj Assoc Prof Tan Hiang Khoon	The Effect of Primary Treatment On Histopathological Patterns and Choice of Neck Dissection In Regional Failure of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Patients
FY17 Cycle 2	Trina Chia	Adj Assoc Prof Tan Hiang Khoon	Factors that dictate the decision to opt for traditional open thyroidectomy or for minimally invasive thyroid surgery amongst patients and medical professionals
FY18 Cycle 1	Lim Sheng Yang	Dr Tang Tjun Yip	Factors Influencing the Choice of Treatment Modality for Individual Patients with Varicose Veins – Patient and Surgeon Perspective Which treatment modalities Do Vascular Specialists and Patients Prefer to Treat Varicose Veins – Is it Scenario-dependent or What’s In Vogue?
	Yuan Jing	Adj Assoc Prof Henry Tan Kun Kiaang	Ossiculoplasty – a 20-year review: epidemiology, outcomes, and prognostic factors in a tertiary pediatric institution
	Nandhini Srinivasan	Adj Assoc Prof Brian Goh Kim Poh	Systematic review of the clinical utility and validity of the Sendai and Fukuoka Consensus Guidelines for the management of Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms of the Pancreas
FY18 Cycle 2	Syn Li Xun Nicholas	Adj Assoc Prof Goh Kim Poh	Liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma: Risk factors, complications, learning curves, and prognostic models
FY18 Cycle 2	Ian Wee	Dr Teo Jin Yao	The use of multiple-failure time survival model to investigate prognostic for recurrence of CRC metastases
FY19 Cycle 2	Sarah Tham	Dr Jay Lim Kheng Sit	Scribe to Byte Project
FY20 Cycle 1	Chan Kai Siang	Prof Goh Kim Poh, Brian	Comparison between long and short-term venous patencies after pancreatoduodenectomy with portal/superior mesenteric vein resection by reconstruction type
FY20 Cycle 2	Ma Jing Yi	Assoc Prof Lim Chwee Ming	Deciphering the immunologic advantage of recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma
	Lim Kia Teng	Asst Prof Amos Loh	Loss of Heterozygosity Profiling of Asian and Non-Asian Wilms Tumors by Multiplex Ligation-Dependent Probe Amplification
	Rachel Park Huei-Sook	Prof Goh Kim Poh, Brian	Evaluation of current consensus guidelines for the management of mucinous cystic lesions of the pancreas