Profile
Vanessa is the Director of the Centre for Hearing and Ear Implants at Singapore General Hospital. She completed a fellowship in Otology, Hearing Implants and Neuro-otology with the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital and Royal Melbourne Hospital in 2021. She has a keen interest in educating the next generation and holds the following educator posts: Core Faculty of the Singhealth ENT Residency Program, Clinical Asst Prof of Duke-NUS, and Clinical Lecturer of Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. Her clinical interests include hearing implants and skull base tumours such as acoustic neuromas. Her research interests include preventing ototoxicity from nasopharyngeal cancer treatment, single sided deafness and genetic causes of hearing loss.
Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships
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Research Interests
- Single Sided Deafness
- Preventing Hearing Loss in Cancer treatment
- Genetic Mutations Causing Hearing Loss
- Biomarkers of Hearing Loss
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Publications
- Tan VYJ, Edward ZY Zhang, PS Leem, Deepak D’Souza, Huihua Li, SW Teng2, Gopal Krishna S, Bennett Ong, Barrie YB Tan: Audiologic and patient perceived benefit in cochlear implantation for single-sided deafness. Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare 2022. Vol 0(0) 1-6
- Tan VYJ, Tan YB Barrie, Kheok SW, Tan WK Terence, Tan HK: Case report of Eustachian tube melanoma: 4-year follow-up of a grave and rare condition. Annals, Academy of Medicine, Singapore, Sept 2020, volume 49, number 9
- Tan VYJ, Zhang EZY, Daniel D, et al. Respiratory droplet generation and dispersal during nasoendoscopy and upper respiratory swab testing [2020 Jul 4]. Head Neck.
- Ng JH, Zhang EZ, Soon SR, Tan VY, Tan TY, Mok PK, Yuen HW: Pre-operative high resolution computed tomography scans for cholesteatoma: has anything changed? Am J Otolaryngol 2014 Jul Aug;35(4):508-13
- Tan VY, D'Souza VD, Low WK: Acoustic brainstem implant in a post-meningitis deafened child Lessons learned. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol; 2012 Feb;76(2):300-2
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