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Dr Yip Chun Wai

Dr Yip Chun Wai

​MBBS (Hons), MRCP (United Kingdom)

Senior Consultant

National Neuroscience Institute

Specialty/Department: Neurology, Neurology

Clinical Interest: Neuro-Otology, Vertigo, General Neurology

Conditions Treated by this Doctor:
Neurology.

Clinical Appointments

  • Senior Consultant Department of Neurology National Neuroscience InstituteNational Neuroscience Institute
  • Senior Consultant Neurology Singapore General HospitalSingapore General Hospital

Profile

​Dr Yip is a Senior Consultant Neurologist working at the National Neuroscience Institute (NNI@SGH). After graduating with MBBS Honours, he trained in Singapore to become an accreditedView More +

Education

MBBS (Hons), 1997

MRCP (United Kingdom), 2001

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

  • Senior Consultant, Department of Neurology, National Neuroscience Institute (NNI@SGH)
  • Member, Clinical Competency Committee (Neurology Senior Residency)
  • Core Faculty Member, SingHealth Neurology Senior Residency Training Program
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dukes-NUS Graduate School of Medicine
  • Clinical Senior Lecturer, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
  • Clinical  Teacher, NTU Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
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Awards

  • National Medical Research Council NIG Grant, 2011 
  • HMDP Fellowship Award, 2013 
  • SingHealth Talent Development Fund Award, 2012
  • Singapore Health Service Quality Award, Silver, 2013
  • Singapore Health Service Quality Award, Gold, 2014
  • Singapore Health Service Quality Award, Gold, 2017
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Research Interests

Publications

  • ​Comparison of the Bedside Head-Impulse Test with the Video Head-Impulse Test in a Clinical Practice Setting: A Prospective Study of 500 Outpatients C W Yip, M Glaser, C Frenzel, O Bayer, M Strupp Front Neurol. 2016 Apr 20;7:58. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2016.00058. eCollection 2016
  • A  Prospective  pilot  study  of  repetitive  Transcranial  Magnetic  Stimulation to improve  the  gait  dysfunction  of  Vascular  Parkinsonism.  C W Yip,  PWT Cheong, A  Green, P K  Prakash,  S K  Fook-Cheong, E K  Tan,  YL  Lo  Clin  Neurol  and  Neurosurg  Vol 115, issue7 , July 2013 p887-891
  • Test-retest Repeatability of Assessing environmental and lifestyle factors in Parkinson’s Disease    C W Yip, E K Tan Mov Disord. 2008 May 15;23(7):1032-6. doi: 10.1002/mds.21627
  • Finding Relief at the end of the (Carpal) Tunnel   C W Yip,  Y L  Lo    Journal of Neurosciences  in Rural Practice  2013  Oct   Vol 4 Issue 4 pp377-378.
  • Lim EW,  Yip CW   Anti-NMDA Receptor encephalitis associated with hepatic neuroendocrine carcinoma : a case report. Journal Clin Neuroscience 2017 Mar 2  doi 10.1016/j. jocn 2017.02.038
  • Anti- NMDA Receptor Antibody Encephalitis: - A Review of Nine Patients with Clinical Presentation, Investigations, Treatment and Outcome in Singapore     Sachdeva P, Sharan P, Kumar P, C W Yip , SJ  See  J Neurol Disord 2016, 4:6 DOI: 10.4172/2329-6895.100029
  • Central ocular motor disorders, including gaze palsy and nystagmus    M. Strupp, O Kremmyda, C. Adamczyk, N  Bottcher, C  Muth, C W Yip, T  Bremova    J Neurol  2014 261 (Suppl 2) ;S542-S558
  • MR Findings in Acute Oculomotor Neuropathy, leading to a diagnosis of Sjogrens’ Syndrome    T H Teo, N  Yassin, C W Yip, L L Chan Neurology. 2008 Dec 2;71(23):1927. doi: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000336644.54519.93
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Research Trials

  • Post treatment  Dizziness, Vertigo  and  Imbalance  in Older Aduts with Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo: Prevalence, Predictors  and  Personal  Experiences. Co-investigator,  May  2017 (Ongoing)
  • Evaluating  the  disparity  between  high  and  low frequency  VOR  to  differentiate  Meniere’s disease  from  Vestibular Migraine (2014 - ongoing). Co-investigator
  • Exploring repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to improve gait disorder in Vascular Parkinsonism.  (NMRC  NIG  Grant  2011-2013). Primary Investigator.
  • Correlating  the Bedside  Head Impulse Test (HIT)  with video HIT  (2014-2015). Primary Investigator
  • Correlating  Dizziness Handicap Index  with  vestibular test  parameters  in patients with  vestibular disorders  (2014-2017). Co-Investigator
  • Prevention Regimen for Effectively Avoiding Second Stroke (ProFESS) trial, (Multicentre International secondary stroke prevention trial 0ct 2003- Feb 2008). Co-Investigator (Singapore site)
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