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Clin Assoc Prof Paul Goh Soo Chye

Clin Assoc Prof Goh Paul Goh Soo Chye

​MBBS, MMed (Family Medicine), PGDL(UK) Medical Law & Ethics, FCFP(S), FAMS

Senior Consultant

• Director, Polyclinics Development, SingHealth Polyclinics

Specialty: Family Medicine

Clinical Appointments

  • Senior Consultant SingHealth PolyclinicsSingHealth Polyclinics
  • Family Physician SingHealth PolyclinicsSingHealth Polyclinics
  • Director, Polyclinics Development, SingHealth Polyclinics

Academic Appointments

  • Clinical Associate Professor, Duke-NUS Graduate School of Medicine
  • Director, Leadership, Mentorship, Professionalism, Family Medicine Academic Clinical Program, SingHealth
  • Clinical Physician Faculty, SingHealth Family Medicine Residency
  • Advisor, Board of Censors, College of Family Physicians, Singapore

Profile

Clin Assoc Prof Paul Goh is currently the Director of Polyclinics Development in SingHealth Polyclinics and the Director of Leadership, Mentorship and Professionalism in the SingHealth Family Medicine Academic Clinical Programme.

As an active senior clinician of many years, he is a Senior Consultant managing the full spectrum of primary care conditions. He has served in several senior leadership roles such as the first and founding Chief Executive Officer of SingHealth Polyclinics, as well as positions in the Ministry of Health.

He was also awarded a Health Manpower Development Fellowship in Melbourne for Family Medicine at the Royal Australian College of Family Physicians, Monash University, Alfred Hospital and the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. As an experienced medical educator, he teaches medical students from both Yong Loo Lin and Duke-NUS Medical schools as well as postgraduate doctors undergoing Family Medicine Training.  He is examiner in the GDFM, Master of Medicine (Family Medicine) and the Fellowship of the College of Family Physicians Exit Examinations.  He is currently the Advisor to the Board of Censors in the College of Family Physicians and had also served as its Censor-in-Chief, where he played a key role overseeing and setting the standards in all the training programmes conducted in the College of Family Physicians, Singapore. To foster collaboration with GPs, he was appointed the first Co-Chair of the Primary Care Advisory Council at the Eastern Health Alliance/CGH, working with GPs to improve the delivery of care in the Community. Active in the teaching of Medical Law and Ethics, Clin Assoc Prof Goh also currently serves as the Deputy Chair of the SingHealth Centralised Institutional Review Board E.

Education

​• Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, FAMS
• Fellow of College of Family Physicians, Singapore, FCFP(S)
• PGDL(UK) Medical Law & Ethics
• Master of Medicine (Family Medicine)
• Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

  • Advisor, Censors Board, College of Family Physicians, Singapore
  • Deputy Chair, Centralised Institutional Review Board, SingHealth
  • Clinical Associate Professor, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Member, Complaints Panel, Singapore Medical Council



Awards

  • National Award: Public Administration Medal COVID  (Bronze)
  • Distinguished Senior Clinician Award 
  • National Day Award: Public Administration Medal (Bronze), Pingat Pentadbiran Awam
  • National Award: Public Administration Medal COVID (Bronze)
  • Long Service Award (30 years) SingHealth
  • SingHealth Service Quality Award (Star)  
  • Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence
  • National Day Long Service Award, Pingat Bakti Setia 
  • Distinguished Educators Award, College of Family Physicians, Singapore 
  • Merit Award, MOH Clinical Quality Improvement Conference
  • Health Manpower Development Programme Fellowship, Melbourne, Australia

Research Interests

​• Topics related to the field of Family Medicine

Publications

1. A study of the feasibility, ability and acceptability of self-testing of HbA1c before consultation (FLASH) in primary care setting. https://doi.org/10.1177/20101058241257264. Sharon Siew May Fan, David Koot, Boon Ming Chua, Ai Choo Seah, Ngiap Chuan Tan, Ding Xuan Ng, Yi Ling Eileen Koh, Paul Soo Chye Goh

2. Predicting coronary artery disease in primary care: Development and validation of a diagnostic risk score for major ethnic groups in Southeast Asia, J Gen Intern Med 2021. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-021-06701-z Zhen Sinead Wang, Jonathan Yap, Yi Ling Eileen Koh, Shaw Yang Chia, Nevita, Teck Wee Andrew Ang, Soo Chye Paul Goh, Cia Sin Lee, Lee Lim Joanna Tan, Chai Wah Ooi, Matthew Seow, Khung Keong Yeo, Siang Jin Terrance Chua, Ngiap Chuan Tan.

3. Blood pressure goal attainment in multi-ethnic Asian patients with hypertension and dyslipidaemia in primary care. Singapore Med J 2019, 1–19    https://doi.org/10.11622/smedj.2019102 Kim Hwee Koh, Chin Chin Goh, Soo Chye Paul Goh, Yi Ling Elaine Koh, Ngiap Chuan Tan

4. A Mobile Lifestyle Management Program (Glycoleap) for People with Type 2 Diabetes: Single-Arm Feasiblity Study. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2019;7(5):e12965 David Koot, Paul Soo Chye Goh, Robyn Su May Lim, Yubing Tian, Teng Yan Yau, Ngiap Chuan Tan, Eric Andrew Finkelstein

5. Achieving triple treatment goals in multi-ethnic Asian patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in primary care. Malays Fam Physician. 2018;13(2);10–18. Goh CC, Koh KH, Goh SCP, Koh YLE, Tan NC.

6. Management of hypertension and multiple risk factors to enhance cardiovascular health in Singapore: The SingHypertension cluster randomized trial.Trials 2018; 19(1):180-NA. Jafar Tazeen H; Tan Ngiap Chuan; Allen John C; Finkelstein Eric A; Goh Paul; Moey Peter; Quah Joanne Hui Min; Hwang Siew Wai; Bahadin Juliana; Thiagarajah Anandan Gerard; Chan Jason; Kang Gary; Koong Agnes

7. A cross-sectional study of gender differences in lifestyle behavior and usage of medications among community-dwelling Asians towards achieving their LDL-Cholesterol treatment goals. Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare. 2017 Sep; 26(3): 158-165. Ngiap Chuan Tan, Eileen Yi Ling Koh, Chin Chin Goh, Paul Soo Chye Goh and Kim Hwee Koh

8. The effect of the intensity of lipid-lowering medications on the LDL cholesterol treatment goals of Asian patients with dyslipidaemia in primary care. J Clin Pharm Ther. 2016 Dec;41(6):677-683. doi: 10.1111/jcpt.12447. PubMed PMID: 27641514. Tan NC, Goh CC, Goh SC, Koh YL, Koh KH.

9. Asian patients with dyslipidemia in an urban population: Effect of ethnicity on their LDL-cholesterol treatment goals. J Clin Lipidol. 2016 Mar-Apr 10(2):410-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jacl.2015.12.014. Tan NC, Koh KH, Goh CC, Koh YL, Goh SC

10. Management of hypertension and multiple risk factors to enhance cardiovascular health - a feasibility study in Singapore polyclinics. BMC Health Serv Res. 2016 Jul 8;16:229. doi: 10.1186/s12913-016-1491-6. PubMed PMID: 27391818; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4938988 Jafar TH, Tan NC, Allen JC, Pradhan SS, Goh P, Tavajoh S, Keng FM, Chan J  

11. Incidence of discontinuation of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors due to cough, in a primary healthcare centre in Singapore. Singapore Med J 2014; 55(3) 146 Singapore Medical Journal 2014; 55(3):146-149 LP Ng, Goh P

12. Limited Knowledge of chronic kidney disease among primary care patients – a cross-sectional survey. BMC Nephrology 2012; 13:54  Chow Wai Leng, Veena D Joshi, Tin Aung Soe, Saskia van der Erf, Jeremy Lim Fung Yen, Swah Teck Sin, Stephanie Teo Swee Hong, Paul Goh Soo Chye, Gilbert Tan Choon Seng, Crystal Lim and Terence Kee Yi-Shern

13. Factors influencing living kidney donation in Singapore Progress in Transplantation Mar 2012; Vol 22 No 1: 95 - 101  Ow Yong Lai Meng, Crystal Lim, Chow Wai Leng, Saskia can der Erf, Veena Joshi, Swah TS, Stephanie Teo, Paul Goh, Gilbert Tan, Terence Kee

14. A Large Scale Survey of the Singapore public on the Awareness of the Human Orgna Transplant Act and its relationship to Altruistic Behaviour. Transplantation 2010; 90 (25):152. T Kee, V Joshi, KVD Erf, WL Chow, TS Swah, P Goh, G Tan, S Yeo, R Tan, C Lim, J Lim, CM Chan

15. Immunogenicity, Reactogenicity and Safety of a Diphtheria-Tetanus-Acellular Pertussis-Inactivated Polio and Haemophilus Influenzae Type b Combination Vaccine in a Placebo-Controlled Rotavirus Vaccine Study Ann Acad Med Singapore 2008;37:546-53 Phua Kong Boo, Seng Hock Quak, Fong Seng Lim, Paul Goh, Yee Leong Teoh, Sanjoy Kumar Datta, Htay Htay Han, Hans Ludwig

16. A Short Report on highlights of worldwide development of RIX4414: a Singaporean experience. Vaccine 2006; 24(18):3782-3. Phua KB; Quah SH; Emmanuel S; Goh PSC; Han HH; Hardt K; Bock HL; De Vos B

17. Evaluation of RIX4414 live attenuated rotavirus vaccine in a randomised double-blind placebo controlled phase II trial in 2464 Singaporean infants. J Infect Dis 2005; 192 (suppl): S6 – S16 Phua KB, Quak SH, Lee BW,  S. Emmanuel, Paul Goh, Htay Htay Han, Beatrice de Vos, Hans Ludwig Bock

18. A Rotavirus vaccine for Infants: The Asian Experience. Ann Acad Med Singapore 2006; 35:38 – 44 Phua KB, S Emmanuel, Paul Goh et al:

19. Safety and Immunogenicity of Early Vaccination with Two Doses of Tetravalent Measles-Mumps-Rubella-Varicella (MMRV) Vaccine in Healthy Children from 9 months of Age. Infection 2007 Oct; 35(5):326 – 33. Paul Goh, Lim FS, Han HH, Willems P:

20. Primary care doctors' practice in the management of adult asthma patients. Singapore medical journal 2002; 43(2):061-6. Tan N C; Chow M H; Goh P; Goh L G; Lim T K

21. Type II Diabetes Mellitus (Editorial). Singapore Family Physician Vol 24 No.2  Apr/Jun 1998. Paul Goh.

22. An Outpatient approach to vaginal discharge. Singapore Family Physician SFP Vol 22 No 1 Jan/Mar 1996. Paul Goh.



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