Dr Ang Wan Chen

MD (Malaysia), MRCP(UK), MMed (Internal Medicine)

Consultant

Conditions Treated by this Doctor:
Diabetes Mellitus, Dyslipidema, Gout, Hypertension, Sepsis, Venous Thromboembolism.

Clinical Appointments

Consultant Internal Medicine Changi General Hospital

Academic Appointments

Clinical Core Faculty Member, SingHealth Advanced Internal Medicine Residency Programme
Clinical Physician Faculty Member, SingHealth Internal Medicine Residency Programme
Clinical Senior Lecturer, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Clinical Instructor, Duke-NUS Medical School
Clinical Teacher, NTU Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine

Profile

Dr Ang Wan Chen is a Consultant with the Department of Internal Medicine at Changi General Hospital (CGH). She obtained her medical degree from the National University of Malaysia in 2011 and completed her SingHealth Internal Medicine Junior Residency Programme, in 2019. Following this, she pursued advanced training with the Senior Residency Programme in Advanced Internal Medicine, National Healthcare Group (NHG), in 2022. She became a member of the Royal College of Physicians in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2016, earned her Master of Medicine in Internal Medicine from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2017, and successfully completed the Specialty Certification Examination in Acute Medicine (UK) in 2020.

Dr Ang is passionate about medical education and is committed to mentoring and training the next generation of healthcare professionals. She has been serving as a Clinical Instructor at the Duke-NUS Medical School since 2023 and as a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine since 2024.

Education

SCE (Acute Medicine), UK, 2020
MMed (Internal Medicine), Singapore, 2017
MRCP(UK), 2016
MD, Malaysia, 2011

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Member, CGH Mortality and Morbidity Committee, 2023 – Present

Awards

Long Service Award, SingHealth Doctors and Dentists Long Service Award, 2023

Research Interests

Publications and Research Trials

Ang WC, Oh HML, Sim CS, Ang CC. A red swollen forearm in an elderly man. Ann Acad Med Singap. 2021 May;50(5):450-451. doi: 10.47102/annals-acadmedsg.2020384. PMID: 34100526
Chandran M, Chin YA, Choo KS, Ang WC, Huang XF, Liu XM, Tay D, Aung TKK, Ali A, Thu WPP, Logan S, Yan SX, Lekamwasam S, Hao Y. Comparison of the Osteoporosis Self-Assessment Tool for Asians and the fracture risk assessment tool - FRAX to identify densitometric defined osteoporosis: A discriminatory value analysis in a multi-ethnic female population in Southeast Asia. Osteoporos Sarcopenia. 2020 Jun;6(2):53-58. doi: 10.1016/j.afos.2020.04.001. Epub 2020 Apr 26. PMID: 32715094; PMCID: PMC7374549.
Chandran M, McCloskey EV, Thu WPP, Logan S, Hao Y, Tay D, Ang WC, Aung TKK, Choo KS, Ali A, Yan SX, Huang XF, Liu XM, Yong EL, Lekamwasam S. FRAX® based intervention thresholds for management of osteoporosis in Singaporean women. Arch Osteoporos. 2018 Nov 19;13(1):130. doi: 10.1007/s11657-018-0542-5. PMID: 30456726
Ying Ying Chua, Wan Chen Ang, Jenny Guek Hong Low, Limin Wijaya. Rabies Post-exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) in a Major Tertiary Hospital in Singapore. Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare. Volume 23. Number 4. 2014