Dr Zhang Meifen

About

Dr Zhang is a Consultant at Changi General Hospital (CGH). She graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2008 and completed her specialist training with SingHealth Institution in 2016.

Education and Training

• Specialist accreditation in Endocrinology 2016
• MRCP 2012
• MBBS 2008
  

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

• Convenor, PACES Preparatory Course, 2013
• Clinical Lecturer, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, 2013
• Convenor, MBBS Exam, 2017
• Clinical Core Faculty, Medical PGY1, 2017
• Physician Faculty, Singhealth Residency Programme, 2018

Research Interests

• Adrenal and Pituitary Disorders
• Secondary Hypertension

Research Trials

• Principal Investigator Study: To Determine the Prevalence of Primary Aldosteronism in Patients with Acute Stroke
• Co-Investigator Study: Prospective study Assessing blood pressure, Cardiovascular, Endothelial and other outcomes poSt-surgical and medical treatment in patients with Primary Aldosteronism (PACES_PA)
• Co-Investigator Study: Validation of New Aldosterone Renin Assays and Ratios to detect Primary Aldosteronism (PA_ARR)
• Principal Investigator Study: Prevalence of Metabolic and Bone Diseases in pre liver Transplant patients

Publications

• Author Pheochromocytoma Crisis Triggered by Extra-Corporal Membrane Oxygenation Explantation
• Author ENDO 2016 with posters: Adrenal Crisis in a Patient with Disseminated Histoplasmosis and Large Adrenal Myelolipoma and Intra-Thoracic Extra-medullary Erythropoiesis in a Patient with Thalassemia