Clin Assoc Prof Tan Thean Yen

MB BCh BAO, LRCP&SI , FRCPath, DTMH

Deputy Chairman, Medical Board (Ambulatory Disciplines)

Changi General Hospital

Specialty: Pathology

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About

Education and Training

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Research Interests

Publications

Clinical Appointments

Deputy Chairman, Medical Board (Ambulatory Disciplines)

Head, Infection Prevention and Control

Senior Consultant

Laboratory Medicine

About

Dr Tan obtained his primary medical degree at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and subsequently received his post-graduate training in medical microbiology from the University Hospital Wales, Cardiff. Following his membership of the Royal College of Pathologists (microbiology), he continued his medical service at Changi General Hospital (CGH) in Singapore.

He currently is a clinical microbiologist, and a clinical associate professor with the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School. Dr Tan is the current Deputy Chairman, Medical Board (Ambulatory Disciplines), Head of Infection Prevention and Control as well as a Senior Consultant with the Department of Laboratory Medicine at Chanig General Hospital. His professional interests are in antimicrobial resistance and surveillance, antibiotic stewardship, the development of relevant clinical diagnostics as well as teaching.

Education and Training

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Deputy Chairman, Medical Board (Ambulatory Disciplines), Changi General Hospital
Head, Infection Prevention and Control, Changi General Hospital
Senior Consultant, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Changi General Hospital
Clinical Associate Professor, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School

Research Interests

Rapid diagnostics
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing
Infection Control

Publications

Tan TY, Ong M, Cheng Y, Ng LS. Hypermucoviscosity, rmpA, and aerobactin are associated with community-acquired Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteremic isolates causing liver abscess in Singapore. Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection. 2017 Jul 14.

Tan TY, Ng LS, Kwang LL, Rao S, Eng LC. Clinical characteristics and antimicrobial susceptibilities of anaerobic bacteremia in an acute care hospital. Anaerobe. 2017 Feb 28;43:69-74.

Viswanath SK, Jie L, Meng QS, Yuen C, & Tan TY. (2016). An Android app for recording hand hygiene observation data. Journal of Hospital Infection, 4(92), 344-345. Tan TY, Jiang B, Ng LS. Faster and economical screening for vancomycin-resistant enterococci by sequential use of chromogenic agar and real-time polymerase chain reaction. Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection. 2017 Aug 1;50(4):448-53.

Tan TY, Ng LS, Sim DM, Cheng Y, Min MO. Evaluation of bacterial recovery and viability from three different swab transport systems. Pathology. 2014 Apr;46(3):230-3.