Dr Victor Tan Aik Khien

MBBS, MMed (Int Med), MRCP (UK), FAMS (Sports Medicine)

Consultant

Specialty: Internal Medicine

Sub-specialties: Sports Medicine

Clinical Appointments

Consultant Sport ＆ Exercise Medicine Changi General Hospital
Consultant Internal Medicine Changi General Hospital
Consultant SingHealth Duke-NUS Sport and Exercise Medicine Centre

Academic Appointments

Adjunct Lecturer, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University
Clinical Instructor, SingHealth Duke-NUS Sport and Exercise Medicine Centre

Profile

Dr Victor Tan is a Consultant with the Department of Sport and Exercise Medicine (SSMC@CGH) and Department of Medicine at Changi General Hospital (CGH).

Dr Tan graduated from the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in 2009 before obtaining his Master of Medicine (Internal Medicine) from the National University of Singapore in 2013. He completed his specialty in Advanced Internal Medicine in 2017 with SingHealth. He later went on to sub specialise in the field of Sports Medicine with Singapore Sports Medicine Centre @ Changi General Hospital (SSMC@CGH) and completed his training in 2021.

Education

FAMS (Sports Medicine) 2022
MRCP (Acute Medicine) 2016
MRCP (London) 2013
MMed (Int. Med.) 2013
MBBS (Singapore) 2010

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Vice-President, Sports Medicine Association of Singapore (2021 – Present)
Adjunct Lecturer, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University (2020 – Present)
Clinical Tutor, Duke-NUS Medical School (2020 – Present)

Awards

Singapore Health Quality Service Award, Silver Award, 2021
CGH 10-Year Long Service Award, 2020
Singapore Health Quality Service Award, Silver Award, 2019

Research Interests

Exercise medicine
Population health
Obesity
Digital and wearable innovations

Publications and Research Trials

Tan, V., Lim, I., Tan, P. T., Tan, F., & Aziz, A. R. (2021). Comparison of physiological and clinical markers for chronic sprint-interval training exercise performed either in the fasted or fed states among healthy adults. Current research in physiology, 4, 192–201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crphys.2021.09.003
Salazar, E., Ghosh, P., Tan, V., Pang, T., Poh, B. Y., Tan, L. B., Loy, K. L., Chong, J., Beh, H. L., Ng, H. M., Ling, K. L., & Wang, Y. T. (2019). Effect of alternative intravenous lipid emulsion in clinical outcome in non-critically ill patients. Clinical nutrition ESPEN, 33, 42–46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clnesp.2019.07.013
Tan, V. A., Gerez, I. F., & Van Bever, H. P. (2009). Prevalence of drug allergy in Singaporean children. Singapore medical journal, 50(12), 1158–1161.

Research Trials

Comparing pain outcomes of cooled radiofrequency ablation and hyaluronic acid therapies for chronic osteoarthritis knee patients (1 Oct 2022 – 30 Sep 2024)