Dr Chuang Lee Ren Leyland

MBBS (S,pore), MRCP (UK), FAMS (S,pore)

Consultant

Specialty: Infectious Disease

Conditions Treated by this Doctor:
Community acquired infections, Hospital acquired infections, Sepsis, Sexually Transmitted Infections.

Clinical Appointments

Consultant Department of General Medicine Sengkang General Hospital
Consultant Department of Infectious Disease Sengkang General Hospital

Profile

Dr Leyland Chuang is an accredited specialist in Infectious Diseases, a member of the Royal Colleges of Physicians (UK), and a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine Singapore. He has an interest in nosocomial and urinary tract infections, and the surveillance and prevention of hospital acquired infections.

Education

MBBS (NUS, Singapore)
MRCP (UK) (RCP, United Kingdom)
FAMS (Academy of Medicine, Singapore)

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Member, Asian Association of UTI and STI (AAUS); Committee for Development of Urological Association of Asia / Asian Association of UTI & STI Guidelines for UTI/STI, UTI section work group
Life member, Singapore Infectious Diseases Society

Awards

Singapore Infectious Diseases Initiative (SIDI) Short Term Fellowship 2017

Research Interests

Publications and Research Trials

Leyland Chuang, PA Tambyah. Catheter-associated urinary tract infection. Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy. 2021, Oct;27(10):1400-1406. doi: 10.1016/j.jiac.2021.07.022.
LRL Chuang, J Cheung, SK Pada, YHG Tan and L Lin. Hospital-wide prevalence of catheter-associate urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) in Singapore: Surveillance of healthcare-associated infections using electronic medical records system. Singapore Medical Journal 2018, Dec; 59(12):660. doi: 10.11622/smedj.2018147.
Leyland Chuang, Lasantha Ratnayake. Overcoming challenges of treating extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii bacteraemic urinary tract infection. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents 2018, Oct; 52(4):521-522. doi: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2018.07.016.
Tambyah PA, Chuang L and Chiong E. Prevention of catheter-associated UTI. In: Bjerklund Johansen TE, Wagenlehner FME, Matsumoto T, Cho YH, Krieger JN, Shoskes D, Naber KG, editors. Urogenital Infections and Inflammations. Duesseldorf: GMS; 2017-. DOI: 10.5680/lhuii000030 (https://books.publisso.de/publisso_gold/book/52/chapter/28).
Leyland Chuang, Kyaw Thu Aung, Joanne Su Lin Kang, Merrill Lim, Charlene Kang, Ramona Alikiiteaga Gutiérrez and Hooi Ming Yap. A case note on Legionnaires’ disease caused by serogroup 1, Sequence Type ST496 in Singapore. Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore 2018, May; 47(5):194-195.
Hyun-Sop Choe, Seung-Ju Lee, Stephen S Yang, Ryoichi Hamasuna, Shingo Yamamoto, Yong-Hyun Cho and Tetsuro Matsumoto, on behalf of the Committee for Development of the UAA-AAUS guidelines for UTI and STI. Summary of the UAA-AAUS guidelines for urinary tract infections. International Journal of Urology 2018, Mar; 25(3):175-185. doi: 10.1111/iju.13493.
The National Infection Prevention and Control Guidelines for Acute Healthcare Facilities 2017, Ministry of Health, Singapore. Co-author on chapters/sections on Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection, Catheter-related Bloodstream Infection and MRSA Screening
L Chuang, N Nashi, A Vathsala, PA Tambyah. Renal patients with asymptomatic bacteriuria do not need to be treated: results of a pilot observational audit. Healthcare Infection 2014, 19(1); 32-36.
Anupama Vasudevan, Leyland Chuang, Li Jialiang, Amartya Mukhopadhyay, Eugene Yu-Yuen Goh, Paul A. Tambyah. Inappropriate empirical antimicrobial therapy for multidrug-resistant organisms in critically ill patients with pneumonia is not an independent risk factor for mortality: Results of a prospective observational study of 758 patients. Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance 2013, 1(3); 123-130. doi: 10.1016/j.jgar.2013.03.008.