A/Prof Ng Kar Hui is a paediatric nephrologist and clinical academic whose work bridges kidney medicine and genomics. She obtained her Master of Medicine (Paediatrics) and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (UK). She is accredited by the Ministry of Health, Singapore, as a specialist in Paediatric Medicine and Paediatric Nephrology. Her clinical practice spans the full spectrum of paediatric nephrology, including dialysis and kidney transplantation. She has interests in genetic kidney diseases and dialysis in young children, and cares for patients in the Kidney Genetics Clinic as well as expectant couples in the Fetal Kidney Clinic.
Following a two-year research fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital, supported by the Singapore National Medical Research Council, A/Prof Ng established one of Singapore’s earliest research programmes on the genetics of kidney disease. She founded the DRAGoN (Deciphering Diversities: Renal Asian Genetics Network) collaborative network to study genetic kidney disorders across South Asia, and has served as Principal Investigator on multiple nationally competitive grants, including the Clinician Scientist Award. She also founded and leads the Renal Alliance for PrecIsion Diagnosis in Singapore (RAPIDS), a multi-institutional, multidisciplinary consortium of kidney and genomics experts focused on implementing genomic medicine in routine kidney care.
A/Prof Ng is a Subject Editor for the journal Nephrology and has authored numerous peer reviewed publications and book chapters. She is frequently invited to speak at international medical conferences. As an Education Ambassador for the International Society of Nephrology, she regularly teaches paediatric nephrology in under resourced settings across Asia.
A dedicated educator, she teaches paediatrics and nephrology to medical students and trainees, and is a two-time recipient of the NUS Faculty Teaching Excellence Award. She currently serves on the Paediatric Medicine Resident Advisory Committee and the Clinical Ethics Committee at NUH, and leads efforts in the clinical implementation of genomic medicine across the National University Health System.
She now serves as Director of the National University Centre for Genomic Medicine (NUGEM), where she is responsible for advancing genomics and precision medicine to benefit patients and families across NUHS.
