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Kee Yi Shern Terence

Clinical Professor, SingHealth Duke-NUS Medicine Academic Clinical Programme

Duke-NUS Medical School

Bio

I am a senior consultant in the Department of Renal Medicine at SGH with subspecialty focus on renal transplantation. I obtained my MBBS from the Flinders University of South Australia in 1994, completed the SGH training program in internal and renal medicine with MRCP (UK) in 2000 and renal physician specialist accreditation in 2003. I was subsequently awarded HMDP funding to complete a 1-year fellowship program in advanced renal transplantation medicine at the Westmead Hospital under Professor Jeremy Chapman in 2004. I returned to SGH in 2005 and subsequently took over the leadership of the renal transplant program in 2008. In 2011, I provided leadership for the development and building of the SGH Transplant Center and became its clinical director in 2013. I was also leading the initial phase of building design and clinical service planning for the new Sengkang General and Community Hospital as Director of Clinical Service Planning in the Sengkang General Hospital Planning Committee before. I then served as Director of Special Projects and contributed to planning of renal related infrastructure and services. Currently, my administrative roles include Program Director for Renal Transplantation, Clinical Director of Transplant Centre and Deputy Director of SingHealth Transplant in Research and Education. I am a clinician educator. I hold academic appointment as Adjunct Assistant Professor of the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School and a clinical teacher with the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. I also served previously as Associate Program Director of the SingHealth Residency Program in Internal Medicine and currently serve as core faculty for the SingHealth Senior Residency Program in Renal Medicine and SingHealth Residency Program in Internal Medicine. I am also a physician faculty for the SingHealth Senior Residency Program in Advanced Internal Medicine. In these roles, I have participated in providing educational leadership, curriculum development, mentorship and tutelage. I have also participated actively in post-graduate medical education. I was Chairman of the Chapter of Renal Physicians from the College of Physicians and during my tenure organised many courses including the Singapore Medicine Review Course in 2014, 2015 and 2016 which are attended by many medical students. I have since step down but still serve in the College of Physicians as the honorary secretary for the College of Physicians Council. I also contribute to post-graduate nursing education and founded the Alice Institute of Nursing Renal Transplant Course. Currently, I help lead the collaboration with Nanyang Polytechnic to develop a nursing diploma in transplant nursing. Finally, I have set up academic collaboration with Duke Centre in the United States where we hold regular tele-conferences and are embarking on a joint project to analyse differences in immune phenotypes between Chinese Singaporeans and Whites/African Americans from the United States. I have and still serve as mentor for several medical student, residents, senior residents as well as allied health professionals (dieticians, pharmacists, physiotherapists, trnaasplant coordinators) who engage in ongoing research and quality improvement projects in various areas of renal transplantation. 

As a Clinician-Researcher, I have been Principal Investigator and co-investigator of research projects with cumulative funding of over a million dollars and completed 30 papers, mostly on various aspects of renal transplantation. I have also regularly presented at scientific meetings with over 50 presentations for the last 11 years including awards for poster of distinction at the World Transplant Congress 2014 and the Congress of Asian Society of Transplantation 2015. Finally, I am a believer of cross-collaborative research and have completed research projects with the department of Pharmacy, Biochemistry, Endocrinology and Infectious Diseases at SGH. I also have collaborative projects with Professor Stuart Knechtle from Duke Transplant Centre, Professor Tazeen H Jafar / Professor John Allen from Health Services and Systems Research at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School and Dr Chow Khuen Yew from the National Registry of Disease Office. In my position as Deputy Director of Education and Research at SingHealth Transplant, I have also initiated collaborative research programs in nursing, pharmacy and infectious diseases, which performs transplant-related research that spans across the different transplant programs in SingHealth. In this role, I have also introduced in-house transplant education to staff, which includes a routine syllabus as part of orientation of new nursing staff. I am also a member of Editorial Boards of Transplantation Reviews and Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare. I have also been invited on several occasions to lecture at international and regional meetings in countries like China, Hong Kong, Japan, Indonesia and Brunei.

Education

Fellow, American Society of Nephrology

American Society of Nephrology, United States

Fellow, Royal Coll of Physicians

Royal College of Physicians, UK, United Kingdom

Graduate Diploma (Healthcare Leadership & Management)

Singapore Management University, Singapore

Fellow Academy of Medicine of Singapore

Academy of Medicine, Singapore

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery

Flinders University of South Australia, Australia

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