Program Directors

Inter­nal Medicine

Gen­eral Med­i­cine with spe­cial inter­est in Pal­lia­tive Medicine

Adj Asst Prof Koh Nien Yue

Dr Koh Nien Yue is a senior con­sul­tant with the Depart­ment of Gen­eral Med­i­cine, with a spe­cial inter­est in Pal­lia­tive Med­i­cine. She obtained her mem­ber­ship with the Royal Col­lege of Physi­cian (United King­dom) in 1998 and is a spe­cial­ist in Inter­nal Med­i­cine since 2002. Dr Koh has been actively involved in under­grad­u­ate and post­grad­u­ate teach­ing of Inter­nal Med­i­cine and Pal­lia­tive Med­i­cine. She is cur­rently an adjunct with Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.

Gen­eral Surgery

Gen­eral Surgery Trauma, Upper Gas­troin­testi­nal Laparo­scopic Surgery

Adj Asst Prof Vijayan Appasamy

Senior Con­sul­tant Trauma and Gen­eral Sur­geon
Gen­eral Surgery Res­i­dency Pro­gram Director

Enjoy teach­ing and exchang­ing ideas:
Div­ing and Hyper­baric Med­i­cine Spe­cial­ist — Aus­tralia
Grad­u­ate of Com­mand and Staff Col­lege of Sin­ga­pore
Fel­low­ship in Gen­eral Surgery from RCS Edin­burgh and Glas­gow
Fel­low of the Acad­emy of Med­i­cine of Sin­ga­pore
12 years in the SAF – LTC – hyper­baric med­i­cine specialist

Vol­un­tary work:
Chair­man of Drug Rehab Review Com­mit­tee, Min of Home Affairs
Mem­ber of Home Deten­tion Advi­sory Com­mit­tee, Min of Home Affairs
Over­seas human­i­tar­ian missions

Pathol­ogy

Histopathol­ogy

Dr Chuah Khoon Leong

Dr Chuah grad­u­ated from the National Uni­ver­sity of Sin­ga­pore School of Med­i­cine in 1991, and sub­se­quently com­pleted his post grad­u­ate train­ing in anatomic pathol­ogy in Sin­ga­pore Gen­eral Hos­pi­tal in 1999. He is a fel­low of the Royal Col­lege of Pathol­o­gists of Aus­trala­sia (RCPA), the Amer­i­can Soci­ety of Clin­i­cal Pathol­o­gists and the Acad­emy of Med­i­cine (Sin­ga­pore). Fol­low­ing his clin­i­cal train­ing, he was awarded the Min­istry of Health’s health man­power devel­op­ment pro­gram to under­study Pro­fes­sor Thomas Colby and Pro­fes­sor Kevin Leslie at the Mayo Clinic, Scotts­dale, USA in pul­monary pathol­ogy from 2001–2002.  His other areas of inter­est include soft tis­sue and bone pathol­ogy and haematopathology.

He is a mem­ber of sev­eral pro­fes­sional soci­eties includ­ing the United States and Cana­dian Acad­emy of Pathol­ogy, Pul­monary Pathol­ogy Soci­ety (USA) and British Divi­sion of the Inter­na­tional Acad­emy of Pathol­ogy. He cur­rently has over 50 sci­en­tific pub­li­ca­tions in inter­na­tional peer reviewed jour­nals and is an edi­to­r­ial board mem­ber of Pathol­ogy (RCPA jour­nal) and Sin­ga­pore Med­ical Journal.

Dr Chuah also over­sees the department’s accred­i­ta­tion with the Col­lege of Amer­i­can Pathol­o­gist and is a tech­ni­cal asses­sor for the Sin­ga­pore Accred­i­ta­tion Coun­cil Lab­o­ra­tory Accred­i­ta­tion Scheme.

Dr Chuah is a senior clin­i­cal lec­turer in the Depart­ment of Pathol­ogy, Yong Loo Lin Med­ical School as well as the direc­tor of the anatomic pathol­ogy res­i­dency pro­gram in Tan Tock Seng Hos­pi­tal.  In addi­tion, he has been an exam­iner with the Royal Col­lege of Pathol­o­gists of Aus­trala­sia since 2005 and is an active mem­ber of the Joint Com­mit­tee for Spe­cial­ist Train­ing (Histopathol­ogy Sec­tion).  He takes a per­sonal inter­est in teach­ing and is actively involved in tutor­ing both anatomic pathol­ogy res­i­dents and under­grad­u­ate stu­dents.  His pas­sion for nur­tur­ing has ben­e­fited gen­er­a­tions of young pathol­o­gists who remain inspired to excel in this field.

Psy­chi­a­try

Geri­atric Psychiatry

A/Prof Chiam Peak Chiang

Clin­i­cal A/Prof Chiam Peak Chi­ang is a senior con­sul­tant in the Depart­ment of Geri­atric Psy­chi­a­try, Insti­tute of Men­tal Health (IMH).  When not in the wards, clin­ics and nurs­ing homes man­ag­ing elderly peo­ple with psy­chi­atric dis­or­ders, she would be engaged with teach­ing activ­i­ties.  She teaches med­ical stu­dents who rotate through IMH and super­vises the psy­chi­atric trainees.  As the Direc­tor of the Train­ing Divi­sion and Edu­ca­tion Director’s Office of IMH, she co-ordinates the teach­ing activ­i­ties of the hos­pi­tal staff, med­ical stu­dents, and psy­chi­atric trainees.   As the Pro­gram Direc­tor of the National Psy­chi­a­try Pro­gram, she will make sure that  the res­i­dents are rotated through all the nec­es­sary post­ings in IMH and the Psy­cho­log­i­cal Depart­ments of the gen­eral hos­pi­tals to be trained in not just gen­eral psy­chi­a­try and but also in the sub-specialties.  She is also actively involved in the MMed (Psy­chi­a­try) Exam­i­na­tions both as an exam­iner and as a mem­ber of the  MMed (Psy­chi­a­try) Com­mit­tee of the Divi­sion of Grad­u­ate Med­ical Studies.

Emer­gency

Emer­gency Medicine

Dr Ken­neth Heng

Dr Ken­neth Heng is cur­rently a con­sul­tant emer­gency physi­cian at the Emer­gency Depart­ment, TTSH. He is the pro­gramme direc­tor of the NHG Emer­gency Med­i­cine res­i­dency pro­gramme.  He grad­u­ated from the National Uni­ver­sity of Sin­ga­pore in 1994 and obtained Fel­low­ship of the Royal Col­lege of Sur­geons of Edin­burgh (A&E) in 2001. His main inter­est is in trauma epi­demi­ol­ogy and injury con­trol and he has done fel­low­ships at The Alfred Emer­gency and Trauma Cen­tre, Mel­bourne Aus­tralia in 2002 and Injury Research Cen­tre, Med­ical Col­lege of Wis­con­sin in 2005.

He is actively involved in train­ing and has held posts as Chair­man of Emer­gency Med­i­cine Train­ing Work­group, Insti­tute of Med­ical Edu­ca­tion & Train­ing (IMET), Chair­man of TTSH Life Sup­port Train­ing Com­mit­tee and is a mem­ber of the Spe­cial­ist Train­ing Com­mit­tee in Emer­gency Med­i­cine. He was awarded best teacher in TTSH (senior cat­e­gory, sur­gi­cal divi­sion) in 2006.

Tran­si­tional Year

Psy­chi­a­try

Dr Nicholas Chew

Dr Nicholas Chew is a con­sul­tant psy­chi­a­trist and deputy head of the depart­ment of psy­cho­log­i­cal med­i­cine ttsh. He received post grad­u­ate train­ing in con­sul­ta­tion liai­son psy­chi­a­try and psy­chother­apy at Mon­treal Gen­eral Hos­pi­tal, McGill uni­ver­sity health cen­ter.
He cur­rently runs a HIV psy­chi­a­try ser­vice at the com­mu­ni­ca­ble dis­ease cen­tre and a post-stroke depres­sion ser­vice in TTSH-rehab at Ang mo kio — thye hwa kwan hospital.

He has a keen inter­est in teach­ing, was nom­i­nated for the TTSH top 10 teach­ers award in 2007 and 2008, as well as the NUS dean’s teach­ing award 2007. He is cur­rently a risk man­age­ment trainer with the Med­ical Pro­tec­tion Soci­ety and the Cog­ni­tive Institute.