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Dr Victor Tan Aik Khien

​MBBS, MMed (Int Med), MRCP (UK), FAMS (Sports Medicine)

Consultant

Changi General Hospital Changi General Hospital

Specialty: Internal Medicine

Clinical Interests

Sports Medicine

Clinical Appointments

Academic Appointments

Adjunct Lecturer, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University

Clinical Instructor, SingHealth Duke-NUS Sport and Exercise Medicine Centre

About

Dr Victor Tan is a Consultant with the Department of Sport and Exercise Medicine (SSMC@CGH) and Department of Medicine at Changi General Hospital (CGH).

Dr Tan graduated from the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in 2009 before obtaining his Master of Medicine (Internal Medicine) from the National University of Singapore in 2013. He completed his specialty in Advanced Internal Medicine in 2017 with SingHealth. He later went on to sub specialise in the field of Sports Medicine with Singapore Sports Medicine Centre @ Changi General Hospital (SSMC@CGH) and completed his training in 2021.

Education and Training

  • FAMS (Sports Medicine) 2022
  • MRCP (Acute Medicine) 2016
  • MRCP (London) 2013
  • MMed (Int. Med.) 2013
  • MBBS (Singapore) 2010

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships


  • Vice-President, Sports Medicine Association of Singapore (2021 – Present)
  • Adjunct Lecturer, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University (2020 – Present)
  • Clinical Tutor, Duke-NUS Medical School (2020 – Present)

Awards

  • Singapore Health Quality Service Award, Silver Award, 2021
  • CGH 10-Year Long Service Award, 2020
  • Singapore Health Quality Service Award, Silver Award, 2019

Research Interests

  • Exercise medicine
  • Population health
  • Obesity
  • Digital and wearable innovations

Research Trials

  • Comparing pain outcomes of cooled radiofrequency ablation and hyaluronic acid therapies for chronic osteoarthritis knee patients (1 Oct 2022 – 30 Sep 2024)

Publications

  • Tan, V., Lim, I., Tan, P. T., Tan, F., & Aziz, A. R. (2021). Comparison of physiological and clinical markers for chronic sprint-interval training exercise performed either in the fasted or fed states among healthy adults. Current research in physiology, 4, 192–201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crphys.2021.09.003
  • Salazar, E., Ghosh, P., Tan, V., Pang, T., Poh, B. Y., Tan, L. B., Loy, K. L., Chong, J., Beh, H. L., Ng, H. M., Ling, K. L., & Wang, Y. T. (2019). Effect of alternative intravenous lipid emulsion in clinical outcome in non-critically ill patients. Clinical nutrition ESPEN, 33, 42–46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clnesp.2019.07.013
  • Tan, V. A., Gerez, I. F., & Van Bever, H. P. (2009). Prevalence of drug allergy in Singaporean children. Singapore medical journal, 50(12), 1158–1161.