Dr Saripalli Kundan Reddy

MBBS, MRCP(UK), MMed

Associate Consultant

Clinical Appointments

Associate Consultant Respiratory ＆ Critical Care Medicine Changi General Hospital

Academic Appointments

Clinical Teacher, NTU Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
Clinical Teacher and House Mentor, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Education Associate, Duke-NUS Medical School

Profile

Dr Saripalli Kundan Reddy is an Associate Consultant with the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine in Changi General Hospital (CGH). He graduated from NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in 2016 and obtained his Master of Medicine in Internal Medicine and Membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 2020. He subsequently completed his specialist training in Respiratory Medicine with SingHealth in 2024 and is currently pursuing specialist accreditation in Intensive Care Medicine.

Dr Saripalli has won numerous awards during his training and was also the Chief Resident from 2021 to 2022. In addition to attending the Singapore Chief Residency Programme, he pursued an attachment at Duke University, USA focusing on medical education, residency and patient care.

With a passion for medical education, Dr Saripalli is regularly involved in both bedside and didactic teaching for students and trainees and has organised numerous workshops and courses. In recognition of his commitment to teaching, he has been awarded the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence 2023 and the SingHealth Medicine Academic Clinical Programme (ACP) Education Award 2024.

In addition to clinical work, Dr Saripalli has a keen interest in health informatics and population health and is also actively involved in projects aimed at improving health literacy.

Education

MRCP Specialist Certificate (Respiratory Medicine), 2023
MRCP(UK), 2020
MMed (Internal Medicine), Singapore, 2020
MBBS, Singapore, 2016

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Member, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, 2024 – Present
Member, European Respiratory Society, 2024 – Present
Advanced Trauma Life Support Instructor, American College of Surgeons 2019 – Present
Co-chair, Senior Resident’s Committee, Singapore General Hospital, 2022 – 2023
Committee Member, Centre for Performance Improvement, SingHealth, 2021 – 2023

Awards

Junior Educator Award, SingHealth Medicine ACP Education Awards, 2024
Outstanding Resident Award, Residency in SingHealth Excels (RiSE) Awards, 2024
Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence, SingHealth Excellence Awards 2023
SingHealth Top 5 Chief Residents, Residency in SingHealth Excels (RiSE) Awards, 2023
Outstanding Resident Award, Residency in SingHealth Excels (RiSE) Awards, 2021
1^st Prize for Poster Presentation, SingHealth Medicine ACP Research Week, 2017
Best House Officer Award, SingHealth Residency, 2017
Feng Pao Hsii Rheumatology Prize, Chapter of Rheumatologists, College of Physicians, Academy of Medicine, Singapore, 2014
College of Family Physicians Singapore Family Medicine Prize, College of Family Physicians Singapore, 2013

Research Interests

Respiratory medicine / Pulmonology
Health informatics including big data and learning machine models
Medical education
Population health
Meta-analysis

Publications and Research Trials

Treatable traits in an Asian difficult asthma cohort, Saripalli, K. R., Sieow, N., Chan, Y. H., Chan, W., Choo, X. N., Yii, A., & Tay, T. R, Clinical and experimental allergy: journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology, doi:10.1111/cea.14488
Pulmonary sclerosing pneumocytoma - approaching a solitary pulmonary nodule and the limitations of risk prediction models, Saripalli KR, Wang MQW, Chow CY, Chew SY. BMJ Case Rep.2023;16(11):e257208
Not the usual suspect, but not above suspicion (Case report on Lipoid Pneumonia), Saripalli KR, Tan CS, Yii A. Respir Med Case Rep. 2021;33:101389.
Bone mineral density and trabecular bone score in elderly type 2 diabetes Southeast Asian patients with severe osteoporotic hip fractures, Gani, L. U., Saripalli, K. R., Fernandes, K., Leong, S. F., Tsai, K. T., Tan, P. T., Chong, L. R., & King, T. F. J, PloS one. 2020;15(11):e0241616
High prevalence of missed opportunities for secondary fracture prevention in a regional general hospital setting in Singapore, Gani, L., Reddy, S. K., Alsuwaigh, R., Khoo, J., & King, T. F. J, Archives of osteoporosis, 2017;12(1):60
Tophaceous gouty arthropathy of the lumbar spine, Saripalli K, Baskar S. Clin Med (Lond). 2014;14(6):683-684