Adj A/Prof Lionel Lum joined the Division of Infectious Diseases in 2012. He served as the chief registrar from 2013-2014, following which he exited from the advanced specialty training in May 2015. His interest lies in infectious diseases in immunocompromised hosts. He was awarded the Academic Medicine Development award 2016/2017 for fellowship in infectious diseases in transplant patients in Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. He is currently the programme director for the immunocompromised Host Service in National University Hospital and works closely with the solid organ transplant, haemopoietic stem cell transplant, and haematology-oncology services. Other interests include nontuberculous mycobacterial infections, tropical diseases and emerging infections.
He is the Programme Director for Infectious Diseases Senior Residency. Passionate about medical education, he seeks to mentor and nurture students as well as residents and has been awarded several teaching awards.
1. Lionel HW Lum, Monica Chan, YS Leo Strategy in Managing Anticoagulation Therapy following Prosthetic Heart valve replacement in a patient with Dengue Fever. International Journal of Cardiology 2015, Aug 2,199;432-434
2. Lionel HW Lum, Hishamuddin Badaruddin, Sharon Salmon, Jeffery Cutter, Aymeric YT Lim, Dale Fisher. Pandemic Preparedness: Nationally Led Simulation to Test Hospital Systems. Annals, Academy of Medicine Aug 2016;45(8): 332-337
3. Lionel HW Lum, FW Chen, Louise Jackett, Simone I Strasser, Rebecca J Davis. Fever and Pancytopenia in a Liver Transplant Recipient: Going against the rules of Occam’s Razor. Transplant Direct 2017 Jun 6;3(7): e169
4. LHW Lum, KK Poh, PA Tambyah. Winds of change in medical education in Singapore: what does the future hold? Singapore Med Journal 2018; Dec 59(12):614-615
5. LHW Lum, PA Tambyah. Outbreak of COVID-19- an urgent need for good science to silence our fears? Singapore Med Journal 2020;61(2):55-57
6. Lionel Lum, Andie Lee, Monica Vu, Simone Strasser, Rebecca Davis. Epidemiology and risk factors for invasive fungal disease in liver transplant recipients in a tertiary transplant center. Transplant Infect Dis 2020 Dec;22(6):e13361
7. Rawan AlAgha, Chew Ka Lip, Tay Wan Jing, Lionel Lum. Phaeohyphomycosis caused by Exophiala oligosperma. JCM 2021;59(7)
8. S Abdel-Razig, Jolene Oon EL, Thana H, N Smitasin, Lionel HW Lum, H Ibrahim. Challenges and solutions in Running Effective Clinical Competency Committees in the International Context. Journal of Graduate Medical Education 2021 April;13(2 Suppl): 70-74
9. R Alagha, SM Tham, KL Chew, JWS Cheng, DWQ Lian, A Vathsala, LHW Lum. Volvariella volvacea brain abscess in an immunocompromised host- An emerging fungal pathogen in Asia. Journal of Med Mycology. 2022;32:101272
10. P Lye, J Cheng, L Lum, K L Chew, J Teo, K L Chew. Muyocopron laterale: invasive human infection of a plant pathogen in an immunocompromised host. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2022;28(10):1351-1352
11. A Vathsala, J Somani, MR D’Costa, L Lum, ETY Wong, HKSran. Comparative outcomes after early sotrovimab administration in vaccinated and unvaccinated kidney transplant recipients with SARS-CoV-2 infection during the Delta and Omicron BA.1 surges. Transplant Infectious Disease 2022;24(6):e13930
12. Lum HW Lionel, Paul Tambyah. Emerging infectious diseases and the role of frontline physicians. Family Medicine in 2023 and beyond. SFP 2023;49(2): 5-9
13. S Ko, SK Kumar, J Jacob, BMY Hooi, N Nashi, MTD Cruz, AW Yeo, ZX Wong, N Smitasin, L Lum, S Archuleta. Technology-Enabled Virtual Ward for COVID Management of the Elderly and Immunocompromised in Singapore: A Descriptive Cohort. BMC infectious diseases 2023;23(1):102
14. ZY Chang, Hersharan Kaur Sran, J Somani, Lionel Lum, Stephanie Ko, A Vathsala. Hospital-at-home as first-line strategy for kidney transplant recipients with coronavirus disease 2019 infection. Am J of Transplant 2023;23(8):1278-1280
15. Matthew CY Koh, Jinghao Nicholas Ngiam, Lionel Hon-Wai Lum. ChatGPT may help in counseling on strategies for safe living following solid organ transplantation. Transplant Infectious Disease 2024 Jan 5:e14222
16. Jinghao Nicholas Ngiam, Chelsea Chia, Yihui Goh, Amy Quek, Lin Cui, Nancy Tee, Raymond Tzer Pin Lin, Paul Anantharajah Tambyah, Lionel HW Lum. Hantavirus haemorrhagic fever and renal syndrome, caused by the Hantaan virus in Singapore- a case report. Annals Acad Med 2024; 53(2):121-123
17. Matthew CY Koh, Jinghao Nicholas Ngiam, Paul Anantharajah Tambyah, Lionel Hon Wai Lum. Elevated serum lactate dehydrogenase aids prediction of mortality in Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia without underlying human immunodeficiency virus infection – derivation of a clinical risk score. Journal of Infection and Public Health 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2024.04.023
Fellow of Royal College of Physicians, FRCP (Glasg)
