Prof Ngiam Kee Yuan - Department of Biomedical Informatics

NGIAM Kee Yuan

Head of Division, Department of Biomedical Informatics

Head & Senior Consultant, Division of General Surgery (Endocrine & Thyroid Surgery), Department of Surgery, NUH

Adjunct Professor, Department of Surgery, NUS Medicine

Senior Consultant, Division of Surgical Oncology, NCIS

Curriculum Vitae

Brief Introduction Teaching Areas/Graduate Supervision Journals & Publications

Brief Introduction

Professor Ngiam is a Senior Consultant at the Division of General Surgery (Thyroid & Endocrine Surgery) at the National University Hospital, specialising in Thyroid and Endocrine surgical disorders. Following the completion of his Advanced Specialist Training in General Surgery, he was awarded a fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and was accredited as a surgical specialist by the Specialist Accreditation Board, Singapore in 2012. He received the Higher Manpower Development Program Award in 2012 to complete a Fellowship in Metabolic and Endocrine Surgery in Taiwan. He received further training in robotic thyroid surgery at the Seoul National University Hospital, South Korea.

Adj Prof Ngiam’s special interests are in thyroid and endocrine surgery, robotic thyroid surgery, bariatric and metabolic surgery, advanced endoscopy and laparoscopic surgery. He was awarded the ExxonMobil-NUS Research Fellowship for Clinicians in 2007 and his research interests include parathyroid surgery, robotic thyroid surgery, obesity surgery for type 2 diabetes and thyroid cancer surgery.

Qualifications:

MBBS (London), MRCS (Glas), MMed (Surgery), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edin)

Specialties: Surgery

Sub-specialties: Chronic Programme (Live Better), Endocrine ＆ Thyroid Surgery, FAST Programme (Get Better), General Surgery

Special Interests: Robotic and endoscopic thyroid surgery, Parathyroid Surgery, Adrenal Surgery, Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery

Awards

Special Recognition Award, NUS, School of Medicine, 2015
NUS Medical Society, Outstanding Tutor Award, 2013
NUHS Residency Program, Resident`s Choice Awards 2011
NUS Medical Society Teachers´ Day Award 2008
ExxonMobil-NUS Research Fellowship for Clinicians, 2007
Excellent Service Award, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore 2005 - Silver award Distinctions in Surgery, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics 2003
Robert and Diana Dick Prize for Top Overseas Student 2003
Esther Frances White Memorial Prize (Distinction in Final MBBS Examination 2003)
Natalie Bogdan Prize in Medicine 2003 Winifred Secretan Patch Prize in Anatomy, 1999

Teaching Areas/Graduate Supervision

Journals & Publications

NgiamKY, W Khor. Big Data and Machine Learning algorithms for health-care delivery. The Lancet Oncology 20 (5), 2019/5/1: e262-e273.
NgiamKY et al. Performance of a multigene genomic classifier in thyroid nodules with indeterminate cytology: a prospective blinded multicenter study. JAMA Oncology 5 (2), 2019/2/1: 204 - 212.
NgiamKY et al. International electronic health record-derived COVID-19 clinical course profiles: the 4CE consortium. Npj Digital Medicine 3 (1), 2020/8/19: 1-9.
NgiamKY et al. Big healthcare data analytics: Challenges and applications. Handbook of large-scale distributed computing in smart healthcare, 2017: 11 - 41.
NgiamKY, Lysaght T, Lim HY, Xafis V. AI-assisted decision-making in healthcare. Asian Bioethics Review 11 (3), 2019/9: 299 - 314.
NgiamKY, Hu J, Parameswaran R. Mediastinal parathyroid adenomas and their surgical implications. The Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 97 (4), 2015/5: 259 - 261.
NgiamKY, Khoo VY, Kong L, Cheng AK. Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding Revisions in Singapore: a 10-Year Experience. Obesity surgery. 2015 Aug 28. PubMed PMID: 26314350. Epub 2015/09/01.
NgiamKY, Lee WJ, Lee YC, Anton Cheng. Efficacy of Metabolic Surgery on HbA1c Decrease in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients with BMI2 – A Review. Obesity Surgery. 2013. DOI: 10.1007/s11695-013-1112-y.
Tan EJ, Soh KC,NgiamKY. Colonic architectural change on colonoscopy in patients taking psychotropic medications. Surgical Endosc. 2013;27(5):1601-6. Epub 2012/10/19.
NgiamKY, Tan EJ, Soh KC. Reply to: 10.1007/s00464-013-3134-x: colonic architectural changes after the use of psychotropic drugs: looking at the egg while forgetting the hen? Surgical Endosc. 2014 Jan;28(1):348-9. PubMed PMID: 24048814. Epub 2013/09/21.
Lee KY, Goo TT, NgiamKY, Tan WB, Parameswaran R. Long term outcomes of renal hyperparathyroidism from Singapore with no access to renal transplant. European Journal of Surgical Oncology. 2014 40:S4. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejso.2014.07.012.
Hu J, NgiamKY, Parameswaran R. Mediastinal parathyroid adenomas and their surgical implications. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 2015 May;97(4):259-61. PubMed PMID: 26263931. Epub 2015/08/13.

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Curriculum Vitae