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Assoc Prof Hairil Abdullah

Assoc Prof Hairil Abdullah

MBBS, MMed (Anes), MSc, PhD

Senior Consultant

Director, Perioperative Services

Specialty/Department: Anaesthesiology

Clinical Interest: Perioperative Medicine

Clinical Appointments

  • Senior Consultant Department of Anaesthesiology Singapore General HospitalSingapore General Hospital
  • Clinical Director, Office of Value Based Healthcare, Singapore General Hospital

Profile

Assoc Prof Hairil Rizal is a Senior Consultant Anaesthesiologist and the Clinical Director for the Office of Value-based Healthcare (OVBH) at SGH. He completed his anaesthesiology specialty trainingView More +

Education

  • PhD (Clinical and Translational Science), DukeNUS Medical School
  • MSc (Periop Med), University College London
  • Graduate Diploma in Healthcare Management and Leadership, Singapore Management University
  • MMed (Anesthesiology), National University Singapore
  • MBBS, University of Malaya

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

  • Associate Professor (Research), DukeNUS Medical School
  • Co-Director, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (DSAIL), SGH

Awards

  • Lee Kuan Yew Scholarship 2022, Public Service Commission, Singapore
  • “Distinguished Champion of Change Leader Award” , SingHealth 2022
  • Best Team (Leader), Singapore Health Quality Service Award, 2021
  • NMRC Research Training Fellowship 2020
  • Care Redesign Best Practice Medal, National Healthcare Innovation Award 2020
  • SingHealth Scholarship 7th SMU-SingHealth Graduate Diploma in Healthcare Management and Leadership 2015
  • Human Manpower Development Award, MOH 2012
  • Best SingHealth Medical Officer Award 2010
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Research Interests

Perioperative Medicine, Anesthesiology, Datascience in healthcare, Machine Learning

Publications

  • Abdullah HR, Li-Ming T, Marriott A, Wong TG. A comparison between the Bonfils Intubation Fiberscope and McCoy laryngoscope for tracheal intubation in patients with a simulated difficult airway. Anesth Analg 2013; 117(5): 1217-20
  • Abdullah HR, Tan TP, Vaez M, Deb C, Farag N, Jackson TD, et al. Predictors of Perioperative Acute Kidney Injury in Obese Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery: a Single-Centre Retrospective Cohort Study. Obes Surg. 2016;26: 1493–1499
  • Chung F, Abdullah HR, Liao P. STOP-Bang Questionnaire: A Practical Approach to Screen for Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Chest. 2016/3;149: 631–638
  • Sim EY, Tan DJA, Abdullah HR. The use of computerized physician order entry with clinical decision support reduces practice variance in ordering preoperative investigations: A retrospective cohort study. Int J Med Inform. 2017;108: 29–35.
  • Sim YE, Sim S-ED, Seng C, Howe TS, Koh SB, Abdullah HR. Preoperative Anemia, Functional Outcomes, and Quality of Life After Hip Fracture Surgery. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2018;66: 1524–1531.
  • Chiew CJ, Liu N, Wong TH, Sim YE, Abdullah HR. Utilizing Machine Learning Methods for Preoperative Prediction of Postsurgical Mortality and Intensive Care Unit Admission. Ann Surg. 2020;272: 1133–1139.
  • Ke YH, Hwang KY, Thin TN, Sim YE, Abdullah HR. The usefulness of non-invasive co-oximetry haemoglobin measurement for screening pre-operative anaemia. Anaesthesia. 2021;76: 54–60.
  • Abdullah HR, Lam SSW, Ang BY, Pourghaderi A, Nguyen FNHL, Matchar DB, et al. Resuming elective surgery after COVID-19: A simulation modelling framework for guiding the phased opening of operating rooms. Int J Med Inform. 2021;158: 104665.
  • Sim XL, Kwa CX, He Y, Ng KL, Sim EY, Abdullah HR. Transforming the perioperative medicine care model: The Singapore experience. Anaesth Intensive Care. 2023 Jan 23:
  • Lim DYZ, Ke YH, Sng GGR, Tung JYM, Chai JX, Abdullah HR. Large language models in anaesthesiology: use of ChatGPT for American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status classification. Br J Anaesth. 2023;131: e73–e75
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