Our Team

Dr Bryan Ng leads the of Departments of Anaesthesia at the National University Hospital and the National University of Singapore. He practices as a Senior Consultant Anaesthetist with dual special interests in Obstetrics and Perioperative Medicine, and is Assistant Professor at NUS Medicine. Prior to his appointment in 2021; he served as Director of Clinical Services, NUH Anaesthesia, for 3 years.

Dr Ng obtained his MBBS from the National University of Singapore in 1999. He underwent Anaesthesia specialty training in both Singapore and the United Kingdom; including 2 years at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, and an Obstetric Fellowship at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

As Obstetric Anaesthesia lead from 2010 - 2018, he introduced Patient Controlled Intravenous Analgesia, and Patient Controlled Epidural Analgesia. He also coordinated anaesthetic support for challenging clinical conditions such as fetoscopic laser photocoagulation for twin-to-twin transfusion, and caesarean delivery of conjoined twins. In his role as Perioperative Medicine lead since 2009, he has expanded and developed the Anaesthesia Outpatient Consultation Clinic (AOCC). It now encompasses the department’s outpatient services of pain, acupuncture and pre-anaesthesia assessment; with a multidisciplinary team including specialist nursing staff.

Dr Ng is recognised as a dedicated and inspiring teacher and mentor to both doctors and nurses. He believes in guiding learners to make decisions and take responsibility for their choices. He is the subspecialty director for both obstetric and perioperative anaesthesia modules of the NUHS Anaesthesia Residency Programme. He also inaugurated the PRactical Obstetric Multi Professional Training (PROMPT) Course in Singapore, a multiprofessional obstetric emergencies training package developed in the UK with the aim of reducing preventable harm to mothers and their babies.

He is driven to improve the care of patients through education and advocacy. Dr Ng has produced videos, leaflets, and articles on anaesthesia; and is interested in optimisation of high-risk patients for surgery. Dr Ng is also passionate about sustainability; of the environment and the impact that anaesthesia has on it, and also of work-life balance and continuing professional education.

Over his tenure, he aims to build on the legacy he has inherited; and to continue learning and growing as a clinician, teacher and leader.

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Dr. Lee is currently working as Professor and Senior Consultant at the Department of Anaesthesia, National University Health System. He graduated in 1976 from the University of Singapore and obtained his Master of Medicine (Anaesthesia) and fellowship of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) in 1982 and 1984 respectively. He was awarded the Cecil Gray Prize by ANZCA in 1982. He also holds a certificate in acupuncture and moxibustion from the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Beijing, PRC).

Dr. Lee has been involved in the process of training and examination in anaesthesia in Singapore since 1985. He was head of department from 1991-2003. He chaired the Specialist Training Committee and the Residency Advisory Committee (RAC) for anaesthesia from 2000-2013 and is still a member of the RAC. He had also served in many national committees - the Chinese Proprietary Medicine Advisory Committee (Chairman), Medicinal Advisory Committee, Specialist Accreditation Board, Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners Board, Scientific Review Committee on Claims of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and MOH Steering Committee for Joint Examinations with ABMS.

Dr. Lee had served in many national and international professional organizations - Singapore Society of Anaesthesiologists (President 1992 & 1995); Asian Australasian Regional Section of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (Chairman 1998 – 2002); Asian & Oceanic Society of Regional Anaesthesia & Pain Medicine (President 2005 – 2007); Temporary adviser to WHO (1999 – 2007); past and present member of Editorial Boards include Anesthesia and Analgesia, Pain Practice, Acta Anaesthesiologica Taiwanica, Journal of Acupuncture and Tuina Science, Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and Open Journal of Anesthesiology.

Dr. Lee was awarded the clinician mentor award by the Ministry of Health of Singapore in 2011 for his significant contribution to the specialty, and long service awards by the Ministry of Health, National University of Singapore, and the National University Hospital.

Areas of Interest – Clinical acupuncture and pain management; neurotransmitters for pain. Research and Publications – 71 publications in peer reviewed journals, 3 letters and 5 book chapters.

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Dr Ti Lian Kah is a tenured Associate Professor with the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He joined the University in 1997 and now serves as the Academic Head and Research Director of the Department of Anaesthesia. He was also the immediate past Director of Undergraduate Education for the Department of Anaesthesia.

Dr Ti received his clinical training in Singapore, obtaining his MBBS and subsequently his Master of Medicine (Anaesthesia) from the National University of Singapore. His subspecialty is cardiac anaesthesia, and did his fellowship in Cardiothoracic Anesthesia at Duke University, United States of America. Dr Ti is certified in Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography by the National Board of Echocardiography, USA.

Dr Ti is also the current President of the College of Anaesthesiologists Singapore, and a Council Member of the Academy of Medicine Singapore. He was previously the President of the Singapore Society of Anaesthesiologists as well.

Dr Ti has a balanced interest in Education and Research. In Education, he revamped the Anaesthesia curriculum for the School, and has led Anaesthesia to be amongst the best clinical postings based on student feedback over the last 5 years. In addition, he has published and secured grants in medical education topics, with 2 new medical education grants in 2016 alone. He has been conferred the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award twice, and the WHB Best Mentor awards twice.

In Research, Dr Ti has over 50 publications in peer-reviewed journals, and actively mentors residents and students in research projects. His current research interests are in outcomes after cardiac surgery, conduct of anaesthesia, and medical education. In 2016, he mentored his resident and students to three international awards at the Winter Scientific Meeting of the Association of Anaesthesiologists of Great Britain & Ireland in London; and at the Meeting of the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists in San Diego.

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Dr Chen Fun Gee graduated from the Faculty of Medicine National University of Singapore on April 1981. He completed his postgraduate training in Anaesthesia in Singapore in 1987. He underwent subspecialty training in Critical Care Medicine at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney in 1990. With an interest in medical education, Dr Chen underwent a 2-year Masters Health Professions Education course at Maastricht University Holland and graduated in 2016.

Dr Chen joined the Department of Anaesthesia National University Hospital in 1986 and became an academic staff of the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore in 1989. He subsequently held positions as Director of Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Clinical Director Anaesthesia, Vice Chairman Medical Board (Quality Assurance) and Head of Department of Anaesthesia (NUS and NUH). He completed his term as head and started his current position as Director Division of Graduate Medical Studies, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in 2010.

Dr Chen is a member of the Singapore Medical Council, the Singapore Specialist Accreditation Board and the Family Medicine Accreditation Board. He is the Co-Chair, Joint Committee of Specialist Training and Chair, Joint Committee of Family Medicine Training. He sits in advisory panels in licensing assessments in Advance Practice Nursing and Pharmacy Residencies. For his contributions in education, he was awarded a Public Administration Medal (Bronze) during the Singapore National Day Awards 2016.

Dr Chen’s research interest has been in the area of outcomes in critical care, airway devices, medical simulation as well as assessments in medical education, in particular residency training outcomes. He has been invited as a faculty internationally to talk on critical care management, use of airway devices as well as medical simulation in medical education. Dr Chen has also served as an anaesthesia examiner in postgraduate anaesthesia examinations in Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia.

Dr Chen’s extracurricular interest is in Jazz music. He is a student of the saxophone and electric guitar and has performed publicly in D&Ds and celebratory events.

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Prof Low Chian Ming is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology, National University of Singapore. He has been in the Department of Pharmacology since 2004. He also holds a joint appointment as an Associate Professor in the Department of Anaesthesia, National University Health System since 2009.

Prof Low completed his B.Sc in Pharmacy degree at NUS in 1992. He obtained his M.Sc. in Biopharmacy with Distinction from King’s College, University of London, UK, and his Ph.D in Pharmacology from NUS in 1998. He was given the Moss Prize in M.Sc (Biopharmacy) for being the overall Best Student, UK.

Prof Low is currently Deputy Head of Department, Department of Pharmacology, YYLSoM, NUS. He concurrently holds several portfolios at the Deputy President (Research & Technology) Office: Deputy Chief Research Compliance Officer and Deputy Chief Research Integrity Officer, Research Compliance & Integrity Office, PPIC NUS Tissue Bank and Deputy Chairman, NUS IACUC. At national level, he has served in the Technical Committee, Good Laboratory Practice, Enterprise Singapore for past decade where he chairs it since 2018. Internationally, Prof Low is the present Treasurer of the Asian-Pacific Society for Neurochemistry.

His research interests are in neuropharmacology, pain and neuroinflammation and precision medicine.

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Sophia Ang was a graduate of NUS medical school in 1990 and obtained her Master of Medicine Anaesthesia in 1995. She specialised in cardiac anaesthesia and completed a year of cardiac anaesthesia training in Massachusetts General Hospital in 1998 to 1999 and another year in Texas Heart Institute in 1999 to 2000.

She is accredited to do perioperative transoesophageal echocardiography by National Board of Echocardiography US in 1999 and recertified in 2014.

Sophia is interested in promoting and teaching patient safety. She is the Vice Chairman Medical Board for Patient safety and operations of the National University Hospital with interest in projects promoting patient safety such as critical laboratory test communication, reduction of failure to rescue and proper handover of care.

Sophia was awarded the Public service excellence Gold award in 2011 and was leader of the team awarded the Singapore National Medical Excellence Team award in 2012 for Communication of critical laboratory tests. She was previously a Patient safety consultant with the Ministry of Health and a representative at in the WHO High 5 Patient Safety Project in which her team in NUH was awarded best poster for implementation of correct site surgery in 2012 at WHO High 5 Project Seminar. In 2020 she received a Bronze National Day Award for Administration work in Patient Safety.

She was previously the President of Singapore Society of Anesthesia 2006, ex anaesthesia specialty editor for the Singapore Medical Journal and was a member of the Singapore Medical Council in 2013.

Areas of Interests :

• Patient safety education
• Patient safety and technology
• Cardiac anesthesia

Awards :

• Merit Awards Healthcare Quality
  • Ministry of Health (Team Award)
  • Prevention of Wound Infection After Cardiac Surgery (2006)
  • Rapid Escalation System (2008)
• Hospital Management Asia Merit Award
  • Laboratory dashboard for critical lab test management (2009)
• MOH Merit Award Intelligent Operating Theatre Dashboard
  • National Medical Excellence Team award (2010)
  • For critical laboratory test communication (2012)
• Patient Hand over improvement Project Gold Award Hospital Management Asia (2013)
• Trigger Programme Implementation. Excellence award Hospital Management Asia (2014)
• Patient Safety Game for Teaching Medical Students. APMEC 2016
  • Merit Award for Poster competition
• National Day Award (Bronze) Admin (2020)

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Dr Terry Pan is a senior consultant anaesthetist and Assoc Prof with the Department of Anaesthesia, National University Health System, Singapore. He obtained his fellowship with the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) in 2009 and successfully completed a year of fellowship in general paediatrics and liver transplant anaesthesia under the NUHS AMDA award at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK in 2012.

Besides clinical anaesthesia, Dr Pan has keen interest in technology-enhanced learning and the role of simulation-based training in health profession education. He has conducted several workshops and successfully developed a simulation-based liver anaesthesia course (SALT) for anaesthetists and anaesthetic assistants involved in liver transplantation. He successfully completed a Masters in Health Profession Education (MHPE) in 2018. In 2020, Dr Pan was awarded the NUS Medicine Teaching Excellence Award and Educator of the Year Award for AY 2018/19. He is currently working on the Next Generation Electronic Medical Record (NGEMR) project and is interested in the continual education and best practices in EMR use.

Dr Pan is the current honorary secretary of the College of Anaesthesiologists, Singapore. He is also the current director of liver transplant anaesthesia at National University Hospital and has served as the immediate past chairperson of the Anaesthesia/Critical Care committee of the International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS).

Areas of Interests :

• Liver Transplantation and Paediatric Anaesthesia
• Health Profession Education, especially the use of simulation in health professionals education
• Electronic Medical Record (EMR)

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Asst Prof Jerry Ee is a Consultant Anaesthetist in the Department of Anaesthesia, National University Health System Singapore (NUHS). He received his Doctor of Medicine from Loma Linda University School of Medicine, USA in 1998. He obtained his Diplomate, American Board of Anesthesiology in 2005.

He has been in the department since 2010. His current practice at the National University Hospital includes all areas of general anaesthesia.

In addition to his clinical role, he is also actively involved in medical education including curriculum development. Dr Ee received the Teacher of the Year Award in 2015-16 from the Department of Anaesthesia, NUS.

Asst Prof Loh May-Han obtained her MBBS and Master of Medicine in Anaesthesiology from the National University of Singapore (NUS). Under the Academic Medicine Development Award, she completed her subspecialty fellowship in Obstetric Anaesthesia at King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women, Western Australia.

She was a member of the task force comprising members of Singapore Society of Anaesthesiologists (SSA) and Obstetrics and Gynaecological Society of Singapore (OGSS) that published local guidelines for expectant mothers. She has lectured and moderated on topics related to Obstetric Anaesthesia, most recently at the Singapore Anaesthesia Refresher Course.

Asst Prof Loh is actively involved in medical education, including curriculum development, lecturing, mentoring, assessing, and examining medical students at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine NUS. She has consistently received excellent teaching feedback from her students, and received the Dedication to Teaching Award in 2013-2014, the Undergraduate Most Effective Teacher Award in 2015-2016, and the Undergraduate Teacher of the Year Award 2014-2015, 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 from the Department of Anaesthesia, NUS. In recognition of her outstanding contributions, Asst Prof Loh was presented with the NUS Medicine Teaching Excellence Award 2018/2019, the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2018/2019 and 2019/2020, the NUS Medicine Fortitude Award 2020 and the NUHS Teaching Excellence Award 2020.

Serving in Medical Affairs – Clinical Governance, she is the driver in promoting patient safety and quality improvement in Alexandra Hospital, a cluster member of the National University Health System.

Asst Prof Loh is an active member in Singapore’s anaesthesia community. She won the Singapore Society of Anaesthesiologists (SSA) inaugural CARES award, which was presented to the most all-rounded specialist trainee nationally, in recognition of her excellence in clinical, administrative, research and education, as well as her contributions to the anaesthesia community. She had served as Treasurer of the SSA, played a pivotal role in organising the Anaesthesia Day Public Forum and was Chairman of the Organising Committee for the regional biennial anaesthesia education event - Singapore Anaesthesia Refresher Course 2018 which incorporated the KK Hospital Obstetric Anaesthesia Symposium.

Areas of Interests :

• Medical Education
• High Risk Obstetric Anaesthesia
• Patient Safety, Quality Improvement and Clinical Risk Management

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Asst Prof Poon is a Senior Consultant in the Department of Anaesthesia, National University Hospital (NUH). He completed a one year Pain Fellowship in Oxford Pain Relief Unit and St Thomas’ Hospital, London, in 2005. He has been involved in the care of acute, chronic and cancer pain patients in NUH for over 10 years. His clinical interests include the use of pharmacological, non pharmacological and interventional techniques in a multidisciplinary setting for the management of pain. He has been invited to talk on pain topics in local and regional meetings. He has also been involved in organising meetings and conferences in the field of Pain Medicine.

Areas of interest :

• Pain Management
• Intensive Care Medicine
• Patient Safety
• Obstetric Anaesthesia
• Regional Anaesthesia

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Dr Addy Tan is holding the appointment of Assistant Professor with the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and is also a Senior Consultant at the National University Hospital. He is currently the Program Director of the NUHS Anaesthesia Residency Program. He is also the Chief Examiner, Chair of the Examination Subcommittee and member of the Subspecialty Training Committee for Intensive Care Medicine, JCST, Ministry of Health.

He graduated and completed anaesthesia training with the National University of Singapore. Subsequently he completed Fellowship Program in Intensive Care Medicine with the University Health Network, University of Toronto, Canada under the Ministry of Health, Health Manpower Development Program. His interests in medicine include nutrition for the critically ill, renal replacement therapy, mechanical ventilation, intravenous fluids, airway devices and medical education.

Areas of interest :

• Intensive Care Medicine
• Mechanical Ventilation
• Intravenous Fluids
• Clinical Nutrition
• Airway Devices
• Medical education in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine

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