Dr Thoon Koh Cheng

Head & Senior Consultant
Medicine: Dept of Paediatrics, Infectious Disease Service
Glencore
Singapore

Biography

 Dr Thoon Koh Cheng obtained his postgraduate General Paediatrics qualifications from RCPCH as well as NUS in 2004. He trained in Paediatric Infectious Diseases at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto in 2007, and recently was appointed as Head of Infectious Disease Service in June 2010. He is also an Adjunct Instructor at YLL School of Medicine, and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School. He sits on multiple Department and Hospital level committees, as well as MOH Committees including the Expert Committee on Immunisation and the National Antimicrobial Taskforce. He was instrumental in developing the KKH Paediatric Dengue Fever guidelines, KKH Infectious Disease System, the KKH Vaccine Pocketbook, and piloted the 1st National inpatient active vaccine adverse event surveillance

Research Intrest

 Mycobacterial Infections (TB and NTM), vaccine preventable diseases, severe invasive bacterial and viral diseases, HIV and Dengue.