Faculty

Clinical Director and Senior Consultant, National Centre for Infectious Diseases
Head, Infectious Disease Research Laboratory
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine

Dr Shawn Vasoo is the Clinical Director and a Senior Consultant at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID), Singapore. He graduated from the National University of Singapore in 2001, and completed his residency training in Internal Medicine and his fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and following that, a Clinical Microbiology Fellowship and Orthopaedic ID fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

Dr Vasoo leads the Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory at NCID and also serves as faculty in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. As Clinical Director, he oversees clinical and outbreak preparedness activities at NCID, which is a ~330 bed facility in Singapore purpose-built for outbreaks, and which houses the nation’s only High Level Isolation Unit, and also chairs the COVID-19 Therapeutic Workgroup in Singapore. Besides COVID-19, he oversaw responses at NCID to several outbreak responses in recent years, including measles and monkeypox in 2019 and 2022 respectively.  He works closely with the Ministry of Health and healthcare institutions across Singapore for outbreak preparedness. He also serves in the Republic of Singapore Airforce Medical Reserves. Dr Vasoo’s research interests include rapid diagnostics, diagnostic stewardship and antimicrobial resistance and outbreaks/outbreak preparedness.