Asst Prof Yeo Kee Thai

MD CM, Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Pediatric Infectious Diseases), FAMS

Senior Consultant

Profile

Asst Prof Yeo Kee Thai is a senior consultant in the Department of Neonatology, KK Women's & Children's Hospital and a clinician scientist at the Singhealth Duke-NUS Translational Immunology Institute. I am board certified in general paediatrics, neonatal-perinatal medicine and paediatric infectious disease. I obtained my medical degree from McGill University in Canada before pursuing a Masters of Science from University College London in International Child Health. I subsequently completed my paediatric residency and fellowship training in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. I also completed a clinical/research fellowship in neonatology at the Royal Hospital for Women, Australia before moving to Singapore. My research interest is in understanding the clinical and immunologic determinants of neonatal sepsis and infections among preterm infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. My work has focused on neonatal epidemiology, neonatal infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance and neonatal immunology.

Education

FAAP Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine (USA) 2014
FAAP Pediatric Infection Diasease (USA) 2013
FAAP General Pediatrics (USA) 2008
MSc (UK) 2005
MD CM (Canada) 2004

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Assistant Professor Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
Adjunct Assistant Professor, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore
Clinical Teacher, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore
Adjunct Associate Professor, Taylors University School of Medicine, Malaysia
Member, Maternal and Child Health Research Committee, KK Women’s & Children’s Hospital
Member, Hospital Infection Control Committee, KK Women’s & Children’s Hospital
Member, Paediatrics Infectious Diseases Workgroup, National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID), Singapore
Trainer, Paediatric Neonatal and Obstetrics Disease Outbreak Preparedness, NCID

Awards

SingHealth Publish! Award (2019 & 2018), Singhealth Research, Singapore
Outstanding Faculty Award 2018/2019, Residency in Singhealth Excels (RiSE) Awards, Singhealth Residency, Singapore
Nurturing Clinician Scientist Scheme, Academic Medicine Research Institute, Singhealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre, Singapore

Research Interests

Immunology of the Preterm Infant
Neonatal Infectious Diseases & Sepsis
Neonatal Outcomes & Epidemiology

Publications and Research Trials

Baharin NS, Duan M, Loe MWC, Goh GL, Thoon KC, Rajadurai VS, Yeo KT. Burden of antibiotic resistance among infecting microorganism of preterm VLBW infant over a 13-year period: A sin-gle-centre cohort study from Singapore. Ann Acad Med Singap 2023 (in press).
Loe MWC, Yeo KT. Early Life Surface Colonization with Multi-drug Resistant Organisms in the NICU, Int J Infect Dis 2023 (in press).
Yeo KT*, Goh GL*, Park WY, JL Wynn, KB Aziz. Evaluation of the Neonatal Sequential Organ Failure Assessment and Mortality Risk in Neonates With Early-Onset Infection. Neonatology 2023 (in press)
Löwensteyn YN, Willemsen JE, Mazur NI, Scheltema NM, van Haastregt NCJ, Buuren AAAT, van Roessel I, Scheepmaker D, Nair H, van de Ven PM, Bont LJ; on behalf of the RSV GOLD Study Group. Nosocomial RSV-related In-hospital Mortality in Children <5 Years: A Global Case Series. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2023 Jan 1;42(1):1-7.
Singla M, Chalak L, Hayakawa M, Kumar K, Mehta S, Neoh SH, Thayyil S, Kitsommart R, Zhang H, Shah PS, Smyth J, Wandita S, Yeo KT, Lim G, Oei JL. “Mild’’ Hypoxic-Ischaemic Encephalopathy and Therapeutic Hypothermia: A Survey of Clinical Practice and Opinion from 35 Countries. Neonatology 2022; 119(6):712-18
Ravichandran D, Lim JKB, Wee PH, Allen JC, Yung CF, Lee JH, Yeo KT. High burden of respiratory viral infection-associated mortality among critically ill children. Ann Acad Med Singap 2022;51:575-577
Foo SXY, Lim CSE, De La Puerta R, Visvalingam D, Yung CF, Yeo KT. Perinatal bacterial colonization and neonatal early-onset sepsis: A case-control study. J Neonatal Perinatal Med. 2022;15(4):813
Yeo KT. Circular RNAs and sepsis: New frontiers in diagnostics and therapeutics? Ann Acad Med Singap. 2022;51:201-203
Lim CCW, Goh MSSM, Chua KH, Seet MJ, Tay SG, Mathur M, Kong JY, Yeo KT. Knowledge and Expectations of Perinatal Care Among Pregnant Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Front Glob Womens Health 2022; 3:81373
Goh GL, Lim CSE, Sultana R, De La Puerta R, Rajadurai VS, Yeo KT. Risk Factors for Mortality from Late-Onset Sepsis among Preterm Very-Low-Birthweight Infants: A Single-Centre Cohort Study from Singapore. Front Pediatr. 2022; 9:801955
Yeo KT*, Chia WN*, CW Tan*, Ong C, Yeo JG, Zhang J, Poh SL, Lim AJM, KHZ Sim, Sutamam N, Chua CJH, Albani S, Wang LF, Chua CM. Neutralizing Activity and SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine mRNA Persistence in Serum and Breastmilk After BNT162b2 Vaccination in Lactating Women. Front Immunol. 2022;12:783975
Kam KQ, Thoon KC, Tee WSN, Ang MLT, Woon NHT, Yeo KT, Li JH, Chong CY. Serotype distribution and incidence of invasive early onset and late onset group B streptococcal disease amongst infants in Singapore. BMC Infect Dis 2021; 21, 1221
Sotiropoulos JX, Kapadia V, Vento M, Rabi Y, Saugstad OD, Kumar RK, Schmölzer GM, Zhang H, Yuan Y, Lim G, Kusuda S, Arimitsu T, Nguyen TT, Kitsommart R, Yeo KT, Oei JL. Oxygen for the delivery room respiratory support of moderate-to-late preterm infants. An international survey of clinical practice from 21 countries Acta Paediatr. 2021 Sep 2. doi: 10.1111/apa.16091
Yeo JG, Leong JY, Tay SH, Nadua KD, Anderson DE, Lim AJM, Ng XW, Poh SL, Guo D, Yaung KN, Kumar P, Wasser M, Hazirah SN, Sutamam N, Chua CJH, Qui M, Foo R, Gamage AM, Yeo KT, Ramakrishna L, Arkachaisri T, Young BE, Lye DC, Wang LF, Chong CY, Tan NWH, Li J, Kam KQ, Ginhoux F, Thoon KC, Chan JKY, Yung CF, Albani S. A Virus-Specific Immune Rheostat in the Immunome of Patients Recovering From Mild COVID-19. Front Immunol. 2021 May 25;12:674279.
Yeo KT, Biswas A, Ho SKY, Kong JY, Bharadwaj S, Chinnadurai A, Yip WY, Abdul Latiff NF, Quek BH, Yeo CL, Ng YPM, Ee KTT, Chua MC, Poon WB, Amin Z. Guidance for the Clinical Management of Infants 1 Born to Mothers with Suspected/Confirmed COVID-19 in Singapore. Singapore Med J. 2021 Apr 19 [Epub ahead of print]