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Clin Assoc Prof Low Su Ying

Clin Assoc Prof Low Su Ying

​BA, BM BCh (Oxon), MRCP (UK)

Senior Consultant

Senior Consultant and Director (Clinical Services)

Singapore General Hospital

Specialty/Department: Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Clinical Interest: Interstitial Lung Disease

Conditions Treated by this Doctor:
Intensive Care Medicine, Narcolepsy​, Pleural Diseases, Pulmonary Infections, Sleep Disorders.

Clinical Appointments

  • Senior Consultant Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine Singapore General HospitalSingapore General Hospital

Profile

Dr Low Su Ying completed her medical education and pre-registration jobs in the United Kingdom, after which she returned to Singapore and trained in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. HerView More +

Education

  • ​2000 Member of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP), London
  • 1996 Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery [BM BCh (Oxon)], University of Oxford
  • 1993 Bachelor of Arts Degree in Physiological Sciences, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

​Current:

  •  
    Clinical Senior Lecturer, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
  • Physician Faculty, SingHealth Internal Medicine Residency Program
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School
  • Core Faculty, SingHealth Respiratory Medicine Senior Residency Programme
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  • Director, Clinical Services, SingHealth Duke-NUS Lung Centre Jul 2016 – current
  • Co-Chair, Clinical Performance Improvement Committee Jan 2016 – current
  • Director, Quality Improvement & Implementation, Academic Clinical Program for Medicine (MED-ACP) 1 Apr 2013 – current
  • Member, Singapore General Hospital Medication Safety Committee May 2011 – current
  • Member, Singapore Thoracic Society
  • Fellow, American College of Chest Physicians
  • Member, Department of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Finance Committee

Past:

  • Co-Chair, Organising Committee, SGH Quality Convention 2016
  • Member, Acute Medical Ward Advisory Committee Jan – Dec 2015
  • Member, Medical Board, Singapore General Hospital Jan – Dec 2015
  • Co-Chairman, Clinical Handover Workgroup May 2014 – Jun 2015
  • Co-chair, Publicity and Communications Committee, 15th World Conference on Tobacco or Health
  • Director, Tuberculosis Programme, Singapore General Hospital
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Awards

  • ​Residency in SingHealth Excels (RiSE) Outstanding Faculty Award 2015
  • Team Excellence Champion - International Exposition on Team Excellence 2016, Singapore Productivity Association

Research Interests

Publications

  1. Low SY, Eng P.  All that wheezes is not asthma – Broncholithiasis, a forgotten disease.  Ann Acad Med Singapore 2002; 31:528-30
  2. Leng PH, Low SY, Hsu A, Fook-Chong S.  The clinical predictors of sleepiness correlated with the multiple sleep latency test in an Asian Singapore population.  Sleep 2003; 26:878-81
  3. Low SY, Eng P, Agasthian T.  Primary endotracheal neurogenic tumours: unusual airway tumours.  Surgical Endoscopy 2004; 18:348
  4. Devanand A, Koh MS, Ong TH, Low SY, Phua GC, Tan KL, Eng P.  Simple aspiration versus chest tube insertion in the management of primary spontaneous pneumothorax: a systematic review.  Respiratory Medicine 2004; 98:579-90
  5. Low SY, Hsu A, Eng P.  Interventional bronchoscopy for tuberculous tracheobronchial stenosis.  Eur Respir J 2004; 24:345-7
  6. Low SY, Eng P, Keng G, Ng D.  PET-CT in the evaluation of non-small cell lung cancer in as Asian context.  Respirology 2006; 11:84-9
  7. Lee P, Low SY, Liew HL, Tan D, Eng P.  Endobronchial ultrasound for detection of tracheomalacia from chronic compression by vascular ring.  Respirology 2007; 12:299-301
  8. Chew HC, Low SY, Eng P, Agasthian T, Cheah FK.  Cough and persistent wheeze in a long-standing asthmatic.  Chest 2007; 132:727-731
  9. Low SY, Chau YP, Cheah FK.  52 year old man presenting with a chronic cough and bilateral ground glass opacities on computed tomography of the thorax.  Chest 2007; 132:1401-1405 
  10. Ong C, Low SY, Thirugnanam A, Loh A, Eng P.  Metastatic trophoblastic disease masquerading as pulmonary embolism.  Thorax 2008; 63:1030
  11. Chien J, Ong A, Low SY.  An unusual complication of dengue infection.  Singapore Med J 2008; 49:e340-e342
  12. Ong C, Low SY, Chua LS, Ng A, Lim KH.  Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis with hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism.  Singapore Med J 2009; 50:e185-e188
  13. Low SY, Eng P.  Human immunodeficiency virus testing in patients with newly diagnosed tuberculosis in Singapore.  Singapore Med J 2009; 50:479-481
  14. Low SY, Takano AM, Devanand A, Ngeow J.  Recurring mouth ulcer and skin rash in a man with abnormal chest radiology.  Chest 2010; 137:983-988
  15. Low SY, Teo F, Eng P, Tan PH.  Pulmonary sclerosing hemangioma: pitfalls in management.  Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann 2011; 19:139-142
  16. Devanand A, Phua GC, Low SY, Koh MS.  Role of endobronchial ultrasound in the diagnosis of bronchogenic cysts.  Diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy, vol. 2011, Article ID 468237, 3 pages, 2011. doi:10.1155/2011/468237 
  17. Tan AH, Low SY, Al Jajeh I.  An elderly woman with stridor.  Chest 2012; 141:809-813
  18. Low SY, Tan TT, Lee CHK, Loo CM, Chew HC.  Severe adenovirus pneumonia requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support – serotype 7 revisited.  Respiratory Medicine 2013; 107:1810-1813
  19. Chan AKW, Takano A, Hsu AL, Low SY.  Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis.  J Thorac Dis 2014 Mar 27. doi:10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2014.03.33 
  20. Low SY, Koh MS, Ong TH, Phua GC, Devanand A.  Use of EBUS-TBNA in the diagnosis of granulomatous mediastinal lymphadenopathy.  Ann Acad Med Singapore 2014;43:250-254
  21. Chan A, Devanand A, Low SY, Koh MS.  Radial endobronchial ultrasound in diagnosing peripheral lung lesions in a high tuberculosis setting.  BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2015; 15:90
  22. Jappar S, Low SY.  Tuberculosis trends over 5 years (2006-2010) at Singapore General Hospital, a tertiary care university-affiliated hospital.  Singapore Med J 2015; 56:502-505
  23. Alhamid SM, Lee DXY, Wong HM, Chuah MB, Wong YJ, Narasimhalu K, Tan TT, Low SY.  Implementing electronic handover: interventions to improve efficiency, safety and sustainability.  Int J Qual Health Care 2016; 28:608-614
  24. Loh WJ, Yu Y, Loo CM, Low SY.  Factors associated with mortality among patients  with active pulmonary tuberculosis requiring intensive care.  Singapore Med J 2016; doi:10.11622/smedj.2016160
  25. Meng P, Tan GL, Low SY, Takano A, Ng YL, Devanand A.  Fibred confocal fluorescence microscopy in the diagnosis of interstitial lung diseases.  J Thorac Dis. In press
  26. Yii ACA, Tan JHY, Lapperre TS, Chan AKW, Low SY, Ong TH, Tan KL, Chotirmall SH, Sterk PJ, Koh MS.  Long-term future risk of severe exacerbations: Distinct 5-year trajectories of problematic asthma.  Allergy. In press

Research Trials

  1. UPLIFT trial, 2003
    Co-investigator
  2. A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Phase 3 Study of the efficacy and Safety of Pirfenidone in Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.  ASCEND trial, PIPF-016 – New Regions, 2012
    PI
  3. An Open-Label Extension Study of the Long-Term Safety of Pirfenidone in Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF).  PIPF-012, 2013
    PI