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Dr Lionel Lum

Designations:
  • Senior Consultant, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital
  • Clinical Tutor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS
Qualifications:
MBBS (S'pore), MRCP (UK)
Specialties:
Medicine
Sub-Specialties:
Infectious Diseases
Special Interests:
Infections in immunocompromised hosts, General Infectious Diseases

Biosketch

Dr 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 program 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.

Dr Lum is passionate about medical education and serves in various leadership roles both in the undergraduate and post graduate program. He seeks to mentor and nurture students as well as residents and was awarded several teaching awards.

Awards

  • Awards
    Inspiration Award (University Medicine Cluster) 2013/2014
    PS (Health) Award 2015- Living the Values: For Response Team for Ebola virus disease
    Academic Medicine Development Award 2016/2017: Fellowship in Transplant Infections
    Deans Award for Teaching Excellence 2018/2019
    University Medicine Cluster Post Graduate Teaching Award (2018/2019)
    NUHS Teaching Excellence Award 2019
    NUS Medicine Fortitude Award 2020 
    NUS Special Recognition Award 2021
    Paris-NUS Grant call award 2021
    Best Interactive/Didactic Teaching award 2022 (NUH Department of Medicine)
    NUHS Teaching Excellence Award 2023
    COVID-19 Resilience Medal/National Awards COVID-19

Journals & Publications

1. Elizabeth HW Tham, CH Huang, JY Soh, M Thayalasingam, Alison J Lee, Lionel HW Lum, LM Poon, David CB Lye, Louis YA Chai, Paul A Tambyah, BW Lee, Lynette PC Shek. Neutralizing Anti-Interferon-Gamma Autoantibody Levels May Not Correlate With Clinical Course of Disease. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2016 Aug 15;63(4)
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. Sophia Archuleta, Gail Cross, Jyoti Somani, Lionel Lum et al. Responding to COVID-19: how an academic infectious diseases division mobilized in Singapore. BMC Medicine 2020;18:179
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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


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