Associate Professor Lim Chuen Hian, Erle

Assoc Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Asst Dean of Education, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Consultant Neurologist, Department of Medicine, NUS Mail to: mdcelch@nus.edu.sg
Qualifications
MBBS, M Med (Int Med)

Research Interests

Assoc Professor Erle CH Lim graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1990, and obtained his Masters in Medicine (Internal Medicine) from the same university in 1997. He trained in Neurology at the Singapore General Hospital, after which he trained in Movement Disorders at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, under Professors C Warren Olanow and Mitchell F Brin. He is currently Consultant Neurologist at the National University Hospital and Assistant Dean of Education at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS.

A/P Erle Lim's subspecialty interest is in Movement disorders, focusing on clinical applications of Botulinum toxin, Parkinson's disease, Spasticity and Dystonia. He has been invited to lecture in Southeast Asia and at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and teaches techniques of Botulinum toxin injection using electromyographic guidance to regional neurologists. He has published over 70 papers in international journals, covering topics in general neurology, movement disorders, botulinum toxin, general medicine and medical education, and is reviewer for international journals in Medicine, Neurology, Movement disorders and Medical Education. He sits on the editorial board of the Annals, Academy of Medicine, Singapore, and on the specialist training committee in Neurology. An avid educationist, he conducts weekly postgraduate clinical tutorials at the National University Hospital, and is director of the yearly Neurologic Localisation Course. In 2006, he was awarded both the faculty teaching excellence award and the university's annual excellence teaching award.