Clinical Interest / Subspecialty

•	General Histopathology and Cytopathology
•	Subspecialty interest in Dermatopathology and Muscle Pathology
•	Undergraduate medical education: Phase II Deputy Coordinator;
•	Department Undergraduate Education Director

Education

•	1995 – MBBS, NUS (Singapore)
•	2004 – FRCPA (Australia)
•	2004 – MRCPath (UK)
•	2008 – FRCPath (UK)
•	2008 – Dip. Dermatopathology (ICDP-UEMS)(European)

Professional / Clinical experience

•	Senior Consultant, Department of Pathology, National University Hospital 2011 – present and Associate Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore 2010 – present
•	Consultant, Department of Pathology, National University Hospital 2006 – 2011
•	Visiting Fellow, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Skin and Cancer Foundation Australia, Sydney, 2007
•	Assistant Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore 2004 – 2010
•	Associate Consultant, National University Hospital 2004 – 2006

Awards

•	NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award 2013/2014
•	NUH Postgraduate Teaching Excellence Award 2011

•	Various aspects of Dermatopathology
•	Medical Education

1.	Khor LK, Tan KB, Loi HY, Lu SJ. Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis in a patient with renal failure demonstrating a "reverse superscan" on bone scintigraphy. Clin Nucl Med. 2013 Mar;38(3):203-4. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e31827a22ae. PubMed PMID: 23354034.
2.	Teoh DC, Aw DC, Jaffar H, Ling W, Yong WP, Lee YS, Choo SN, Tan KB. Tamoxifen-induced eccrine squamous syringometaplasia. J Cutan Pathol. 2012 May;39(5):554-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0560.2011.01860.x. Epub 2012 Mar 6. PubMed PMID: 22390276.
3.	Wallace BJ, Tan KB, Pett SL, Cooper DA, Kossard S, Whitfeld MJ. Enfuvirtide injection site reactions: a clinical and histopathological appraisal. Australas J Dermatol. 2011 Feb;52(1):19-26. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-0960.2010.00717.x. Epub 2011 Jan 12. PubMed PMID: 21332688.
4.	Tan KB, Lee YS. Immunoexpression of Bcl-x in squamous cell carcinoma and keratoacanthoma: differences in pattern and correlation with pathobiology. Histopathology. 2009 Sep;55(3):338-45. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2559.2009.03375.x. PubMed PMID: 19723149.
5.	Tan KB, Scolyer RA, McCarthy SW, Schatz J, Nabarro M, Lee K, Rusli J, Banu B, Fiona Bonar S. Tumoural calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystal deposition disease (tophaceous pseudogout) of the hand: a report of two cases including one with a previously unreported associated florid reactive myofibroblastic proliferation. Pathology. 2008 Dec;40(7):719-22. doi: 10.1080/00313020802436824. PubMed PMID: 18985528.
6.	Kossard S, Tan KB, Choy C. Keratoacanthoma and infundibulocystic squamous cell carcinoma. Am J Dermatopathol. 2008 Apr;30(2):127-34. doi: 10.1097/DAD.0b013e318161310c. Review. PubMed PMID: 18360115.
7.	Tan KB, Moncrieff M, Thompson JF, McCarthy SW, Shaw HM, Quinn MJ, Li LX, Crotty KA, Stretch JR, Scolyer RA. Subungual melanoma: a study of 124 cases highlighting features of early lesions, potential pitfalls in diagnosis, and guidelines for histologic reporting. Am J Surg Pathol. 2007 Dec;31(12):1902-12. PubMed PMID: 18043047.
8.	Sufyan W, Tan KB, Wong ST, Lee YS. Eosinophilic pustular folliculitis. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2007 Oct;131(10):1598-601. PubMed PMID: 17922601.
9.	Tan KB, Thamboo TP, Lim YC. Continuing education for pathology laboratory technologists: a needs analysis in a Singapore teaching hospital. J Clin Pathol. 2007 Nov;60(11):1273-6. Epub 2007 Feb 16. PubMed PMID: 17307865; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2095468.
10.	Tan KB, Putti TC. Cyclooxygenase 2 expression in nasopharyngeal carcinoma: immunohistochemical findings and potential implications. J Clin Pathol. 2005 May;58(5):535-8. PubMed PMID: 15858127; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1770665.