Michelle Tan

Assistant Professor, Dept of Paediatrics and Centre for Biomedical Ethics

Profile

Dr Michelle Tan graduated from the National University of Singapore in 2007 and received her postgraduate paediatric and neonatal training at the National University Hospital (NUH). She obtained her Membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (United Kingdom) and Masters of Medicine, Paediatrics (Singapore) in 2011. She was awarded the Nestle Book Prize in the latter. She completed her advanced specialist training in 2014.

In addition to general paediatric gastrointestinal diseases, Dr Tan’s interests are in childhood nutrition, gut motility, gastro-esophageal reflux disease and feeding-related issues in children. She is part of the multidisciplinary team running the Feeding Clinic in NUH. She was awarded the TEAM Academic Medicine Development Award (AMDA) in 2014, for which she did an attachment in Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, specialising in children with aero-digestive issues.