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Contact Information

Email:
patngame@nus.edu.sg​

Telephone:
+65 6772 4307

 

Other Information

Online education resources and social media

  • Pathweb online pathology education resource

  • Cytoweb online cytopathology education resource

Nga Min En​ ​

MBBS, FRCPA, FRCPath, FIAC​
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR , YONG LOON LIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, NUS
SENIOR CONSULTANT, NUH

RESEARCH INTEREST​

Non-gynaecologic cytology, particularly in head and neck cytology

BIOGRAPHY​

A/Prof Nga obtained Histopathology Fellowships from both the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia and the United Kingdom. Her area of subspecialty interest is Cytopathology. She is also a Fellow of the International Academy of Cytology, and completed her Cytology Fellowship at QEII Hospital in Western Australia, under the generous mentorship of Drs Felicity Frost and Gregory Sterrett.

A/Prof Nga is a council member of the Singapore Society of Cytology, and editor of their biannual newsletter, CytoPage. She is also a frequent speaker in local and international pathology conferences, and has been an invited keynote speaker conferences in Australia and India. Her particular areas of interest are in thyroid, salivary gland and pancreatic cytology. She has also authored a cytopathology book entitled Practical Diagnostic Approaches In Non-Gynaecologic Cytology, which is published by Springer (2022). A/Prof Nga also co-authored a chapter in the WHO Classification of Tumours: Paediatric Tumours (Papillary thyroid carcinoma). In 2024, A/Prof Nga delivered  a Short Course in the USCAP Annual Scientific Meeting in Baltimore, on the topic of lymph node cytology.

A/Prof Nga is a keen driver of innovation in education. She has created several online teaching resources including Pathweb, a comprehensive online learning  resource with several thousand registrants from over 130 countries. She is also the creator of the Pathweb Teacher YouTube channel which has more than 20000 subscribers. In addition, her Cytopathology website, Cytoweb, is featured in the International Academy of Cytology website as an educational resource.  In 2019, she was the recipient of the National University of Singapore Outstanding Educator Award. A/Prof Nga has also been featured in the 2023 Power List of The Pathologist, an online magazine documenting news in all aspects of pathology.

Outside the clinical realm, A/Prof Nga has also been an elected fellow of the NUS Teaching Academy, in which she has helmed the Teachers Who Inspire team, producing videos of inspiring teachers from various faculties. Since 2023, she has also been a member of the University Teaching Excellence Committee (UTEC), which determines the recipients of the highest teaching honours in NUS.

In addition to her work in undergraduate teaching, A/Prof Nga is also keenly interested in the mentoring and training pathology residents. She has served as Core Faculty in the NUHS Pathology Residency programme since its inception.

HONOURS AND AWARDS​

Teaching awards:​

University awards: ​

    • 2019 NUS Outstanding Educator Award​
    • 2009-2010 NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award​
    • 2012-2013 NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award
    • 2013-2014 NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award​
    • 2016-2020 NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award Honour Roll​

Faculty awards: ​

    • 2006-7 National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty Teaching​ excellence award (Medicine) ​
    • 2009 Top Ten Tutors award Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine​ (Student’s vote)​
    • 2009-2010 NUS Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
    • 2012-2013 NUS Faculty Teaching Excellence Award​
    • 2013-2014 NUS Faculty Teaching Excellence Award  ​
    • 2021 NUHS Teaching Excellence Award
    • 2022 NUHS Teaching Excellence Award
    • 2022​ NUHS Special Recognition Award​

Research award:​

    • Singapore Society of Pathology, Becton-Dickinson Research​ Award, 2012. ​​

Recent Publications

  • COVID-19 post-vaccination lymphadenopathy: Report of cytological findings from fine needle aspiration biopsy.Tan NJH, et al. Diagn Cytopathol. 2021 Dec;49(12):E467-E470.​ PMID: 34432391​
  • In vivo demonstration of a novel non-invasive model for inducing localized hypothermia to ameliorate hepatotoxicity.​Tan YL, Nga ME et al. Sci Rep. 2021 Sep 20;11(1):18620 PMID:​34545127​ 
  • Cytologic diagnosis of medullary thyroid carcinoma in the Asia-Pacific region.​
    Liu CY, Bychkov A et al. Diagn Cytopathol. 2021 Jan;49(1):60-69​ PMID: 32827355​
     
  • Atypia of undetermined significance/follicular lesion of undetermined significance: Asian vs. non-Asian practice, and the Singapore experience.​
    Ooi LY, Nga ME. Gland Surg. 2020 Oct;9(5):1764-1787 PMID:​33224854​
     
  • A common MET polymorphism harnesses HER2 signaling to drive aggressive squamous cell carcinoma.​
    Kong LR, Mohamed Salleh NAB et al. Nat Commun. 2020 Mar​ 25;11(1):1556 PMID: 32214092​
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