Associate Professor Tan Poh Lin graduated with MBBS (S'pore) in 1992 and Master of Medicine in Paediatrics (S'pore) in 1996. She is a registered specialist in Paediatric Medicine and Paediatric Haematology & Oncology. A/Prof Tan trained in HSCT with a world-class umbilical cord blood transplant centre in the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA (2002 – 2003). In the last decade, she expanded the HSCT donor pool by innovating and developing a successful parental haploidentical HSCT program in NUH. She currently leads the FACT (Foundation in the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy) accredited Paediatric HSCT program at NUHS.

General paediatrics is the foundation of A/ Prof Tan's sub-speciality practice. She enjoys her practice in general ambulatory paediatrics and adolescent medicine when not doing HSCT.   

A/Prof Tan is a clinician-educator actively involved in the continuing professional development of doctors in ambulatory paediatrics and adolescent medicine, and paediatric HSCT. The NUHS Paediatric HSCT program offers an SMC-credentialed advanced clinical fellowship and has trained a number of regional doctors since 2011.