Bio
Dr Xu Zheyu is currently a Senior Consultant Neurologist based at the National Neuroscience Institute (Tan Tock Seng Hospital), with subspecialty interests in Parkinson’s Disease, Movement Disorders and Sleep Neurology. She is also a visiting consultant at Changi General Hospital and is part of the teaching faculty of the Singhealth DUKE-NUS Sleep Centre.
She obtained her medical degree from the University of Cambridge, UK before training at Westmead & St Vincent’s Hospitals in Sydney and Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne, Australia where she obtained her postgraduate qualifications in Neurology. She subsequently returned to Singapore, completing a fellowship in Movement Disorders at the National Neuroscience Institute before embarking on a clinical and research fellowship in Movement and Sleep Disorders at the University of Newcastle, UK. She is currently the Principal Investigator of a 5 year longitudinal study of prodromal Parkinson Disease, has published more than 50 peer-reviewed reearch papers including contributing a book chapter to the 3rd Edition of the Oxford Textbook of Old Age Psychiatry. She was also previously selected to attend a leadership course by the international Movement Disorders Society and won the gold medal in a video tournament. She has also served as an expert medical witness in the area of sleep neurology for the deputy public prosecutor and has been invited to give talks at a national and international level.
Education
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Bachelor of Medical Science
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
NUS Appointment(s)
Senior Clinical Lecturer
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore,
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