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Dr Chan Si Min

Designations:
  • Head & Senior Consultant, Division of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Paediatrics, Khoo Teck Puat – National University Children's Medical Institute, National University Hospital
Qualifications:
MBBS (Lond), FRCPCH (UK), PGDip Paed Inf Dis (Oxford)
Specialties:
Paediatrics
Sub-Specialties:
Paediatric Infectious Diseases (Infections, Travel Vaccines)

Biosketch

Dr Chan Si Min graduated from St Mary's Hospital Medical School, Imperial College School of Medicine, UK. She received her Membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in London and her Postgraduate Diploma in Paediatric Infectious Diseases from the University of Oxford. She is registered on the UK General Medical Council Specialist Register and the Singapore Medical Council as a specialist in Paediatric Medicine.  

Her clinical practice includes all areas of general paediatrics and paediatric infectious diseases. She provides specialised medical care for children with severe, high-risk or unusual infections. She also cares for children with exposure to blood-borne viruses such as Hepatitis B/C and HIV, and exposure to tuberculosis or infections with non-tuberculous mycobacteria. She provides advice for routine, travel-related and catch-up vaccination or vaccination in special situations. She implemented the Paediatric Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy service in the National University Hospital (NUH).

She manages the Paediatric Antibiotic Stewardship Programme and provides input on Paediatric Infection Control matters in NUH. She is actively involved in the national outbreak response surveillance and management for children. She is also an active medical teacher in undergraduate and postgraduate training.

Journals & Publications

  1. ​Tan CX, Chan SM, Lee LY, Ong C, Phua KB, Aw MM, . . . Thoon KC (2017). Serologic Responses After Hepatitis B Vaccination in Preterm Infants Born to Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Positive Mothers: Singapore Experience. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000001578
  2. Fu KX, Tham E, Chao SS, Sundar G, Isa MS, Shek LP, . . . Chan SM (2016). Unilateral Proptosis in an Immunocompetent Child From the Middle East. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 35(3):356-7. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000001002
  3. Tan RM, Aw MM, Quak SH, Chan SM (2014). Pulmonary Protothecosis in a Pediatric Liver Transplant Patient. Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, 3(3):e31-4. doi: 10.1093/jpids/pit034.
  4. Lee AJ, Moncada-Vélez M, Picard C, Llanora G, Huang CH, Chan SM, . . . Boisson-Dupuis S (2016). Severe Mycobacterial Diseases in a Patient with GOF IκBα Mutation Without EDA. Journal of Clinical Immunology, 36(1):12-5. doi: 10.1007/s10875-015-0223-8
  5. Versporten A, Bielicki J, Drapier N, Sharland M, Goossens H; ARPEC project group (2016). The Worldwide Antibiotic Resistance and Prescribing in European Children (ARPEC) point prevalence survey: developing hospital-quality indicators of antibiotic prescribing for children. The journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy, 71(4):1106-17. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkv418


 

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