HAI Researchers

Chan Kian Sing

Senior Consultant, Dept. of Molecular Pathology, Div. of Pathology, SGH

Research Interests:

• Rapid and serological diagnosis of viral infections

Email: [email protected]

Chan Kwai Peng

Senior Consultant and Head of Virology, Dept. of Microbiology, Div. of Pathology, SGH

Research Interests:

• Epidemiology of viral infections
• Rapid and serological diagnosis of viral infections

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Chan Yuen Yue Candice

Senior Consultant, Dept. of Infectious Diseases, SGH

Research Interests:

• Translational research on viral infectious diseases, using an integrative systems biological approach involving high throughput assays to study host responses to infection and vaccination

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Chong Chia Yin

Senior Consultant, Infectious Disease Service, Paediatrics, KKH

Secondary Appointments:

• Director, Clinical Quality & Patient Safety, Medicine - Paediatrics ACP
• Adjunct Associate Professor in Pediatrics ,Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS
• Adjunct Associate Professor, Duke- NUS, Medical School
• Clinical Teacher, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University
• Physician Faculty, SingHealth Paediatrics Residency programme

Research Interests:

• Invasive Pneumococcal Disease
• Entervirus Diseases
• Meningitis
• Tuberculosis
• HIV
• Vaccine Complications
• Employee Health and Staff Vaccination

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Chua Ying Ying

Senior Consultant, Dept. Infectious Diseases, SGH

Secondary Appointment:

• Consultant, Dept. Infectious Diseases and Dept. of General Medicine, SKH

Research Interests:

• Outpatient antibiotic and infection control

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Indumathi Venkatachalam

Senior Consultant, Dept. Infectious Diseases, SGH

Research Interests:

• Epidemiology and management of carbapenem resistant enterobacteriaceae in Singapore

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Jamie Tan Bee Xian

Consultant, Dept. of Microbiology, Div. of Pathology, SGH

Research Interests:

• Diagnostic Bacteriology

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Jean Sim Xiang Ying

Consultant, Dept. of Infectious Diseases, SGH

Research Interests:

• Antimicrobial resistance
• Infection prevention and control
• Hospital epidemiology
• Healthcare innovations and medical technology

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Koh Tse Hsien

Senior Consultant and Head, Dept. of Microbiology, Div. of Pathology, SGH

Secondary Appointments:
• Associate Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School
• Clinical Senior Lecturer, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS
• Visiting Consultant, CGH

Research Interests:

• Molecular epidemiology of bacterial pathogens and resistance determinants of multidrug resistant bacteria
• Community Klebsiella pneumoniae infections
• Food, environmental and animal sources of bacteria that impact human health
• Zoonotic bacterial infections

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Ling Moi Lin

Director, Dept. of Infection Prevention and Epidemiology, SGH

Secondary Appointments:

• Director of Infection Control, SGH
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School

Research Interests:

• Infection control,
• Antimicrobial resistance
• Molecular epidemiology
• Quality improvement

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Oh May Lin Helen

Senior Consultant, Infectious Diseases, CGH

Research Interests:

• Infection Control
• Nosocomial infections
• Travel Medicine/Vaccines
• Dengue immunology
• Tuberculosis
• Urinary Tract Infections (UTI)
• Environmental decontamination

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Oon Lin Ean, Lynette

Senior Consultant and Head, Dept. of Moledular Pathology, Div. of Pathology, SGH

Secondary Appointments:

• Academic Vice-Chair, Clinical Service (SGH Campus), Pathology Academic Clinical Programme, SingHealth Duke NUS Academic Medical Centre
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School
• Clinical Teacher, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS

Research Interests:

• Use of advanced molecular diagnostics for biomarker detection in oncology
• Molecular Diagnostics of viruses and other microorganisms

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Sim Heng Chiak James

Visiting Consultant (Senior Consultant), Dept. of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, KKH

Research Interests:

• Diagnostic Bacteriology
• Next generation sequencing
• Quality improvements and initiatives in the laboratory
• Laboratory safety

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Tan Ban Hock

Chief Quality Officer and Senior Consultant, Dept. Infectious Diseases, SGH

Research Interests:

• Infections in compromised hosts
• Fungal infections
• Infection control innovations

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Tan Yen Ee

Senior Consultant, Diagnostic Bacteriology, Dept. of Microbiology, Div. of Pathology, SGH

Research Interests:

• Development of relevant clinical diagnostics
• Antimicrobial resistance and surveillance
• Medical Mycology
• Non-tuberculous mycobateria

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Teh Yii Ean

Consultant, Dept. of Infectious Diseases, SGH

Research Interests:

• Infectious Diseases

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Thien Siew Yee

Consultant, Dept. of Infectious Diseases, SGH

Research Interests:

• Infectious Diseases

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Thoon Koh Cheng

Senior Consultant, Infectious Diseases Service, Paediatrics, KKH

Secondary Appointments:
• Clinical Associate Professor
• Vice Chair, Education, Paediatrics Academic Clinical Programme
• Deputy Chairman, Division of Medicine, KKH
• Adjunct Associate Professor, YLL-NUS School of Medicine, NUS
• Adjunct Associate Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School
• Adjunct Associate Professor, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, NTU

Research Interests:
• Epidemiology of vaccine-preventable diseases
• Respiratory viral diseases
• Antimicrobial stewardship
• Infection control
• Adverse events following immunization

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Wan Wei Yee

Senior Consultant, Dept. Microbiology, SGH

Research Interests:
• Microbiology, Virology and Infection, Prevention and Control

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Wong Hei Man

Consultant, Dept. of Infectious Diseases, SGH

Research Interests:
• Infectious diseases, infection, prevention and control

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