Education Qualifications: MBBS, FRCP (UK)
Dr Tan Ban Hock is Senior Consultant in the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Singapore General Hospital, where he was head of the department until April 2014. He was instrumental in setting up the department, and has since established programs where the department works closely with the transplant, hematology and oncology units. Dr Tan is also clinical professor at the Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.
Dr Tan graduated from the National University of Singapore and obtained his MRCP (Edinburgh) in 1995. He went on to train in infectious diseases in Singapore and at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was conferred the title of FRCP in 2009. He is past president of the Society of Infectious Diseases (Singapore). He is currently President-elect of the Transplant Infections Disease Section of The Transplantation Society, and sits on the editorial board of Transplant Infectious Disease. He served for 9 years as co-chair of the Asia Fungal Working Group.
Dr Tan has a keen interest in the study of infections in immunocompromised hosts, and is particularly interested in infections in transplant recipients and febrile neutropenic patients.
Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships:
Service in Committees (Hospital – current)
• Chairman, Singhealth COVID-19 Registry
• Chairman, Workgroup on Prevention and Control of Infection (WoPACI)
• Alternate Chairman, Singhealth Infection Prevention Workgroup (SIPW)
• Co-Chairperson, Singhealth Healthcare Workers Surveillance Workgroup
• Member, Singhealth Disease Outbreak Taskforce
• Member, Institute for Patient Safety & Quality (IPSQ) Council
• Member, SGH Campus Disease Outbreak Taskforce (DOTF)
• Member, SGH Corporate Risk & Business Continuity Management (CRBCM) Steering Committee
• Member, SGH Enterprise Risk & Management Council
• Member, SGH Management Committee (MC)
• Member, SGH Medical Board
• Member, SGH Weekly Leadership Meeting (WLM)
• Member, SGH Workgroup on Data Access and Utilisation
Service in Committees (National - current)
• Member, National Quality Council
• Member, Quality and Safety Standards Committee (QSSC)
• Member, Singapore Healthcare Improvement Network (SHINe)
• Member Organizing Committee, Asia Pacific Congress of Chemotherapy and Infectious Diseases 2020
• Associate Mediator and Healthcare Mediator, Singapore Mediation Centre
Service in Committees (International - current)
• President-elect, Transplant Infectious Diseases Section, The Transplantation Society
• Co-Track Chair, Infectious Diseases, Transplantation 2020
• Member, Executive Committee, Asia Fungal Working Group, International Society of Human and Animal Mycology
• Member, Editorial Board, Transplant Infectious Disease
• Member, Scientific Committee, INCREMENT.SOT Consortium
Awards:
HMDP Fellowship
• Awarded Ministry of Health FY 1997 HMDP Fellowship - Infectious diseases in the transplant patient and immunocompromised host
Hospital
• Best Teacher (runner-up), 2002
• Service With A Heart, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2021
• I COMMIT award 2009
• Heart of Gold, 2012
• Outstanding Clinician (Special Mention) 2013
• Outstanding Faculty, SingHealth Residency, 2013, 2014, 2015
• Master Physician of Internal Medicine, 2017
Duke-NUS
• DUKE-NUS Faculty Appreciation 2011 – Most knowledgeable faculty award
• Master Academic Clinicians Award, 2021
National - General
• EXSA award (Silver) 2004
• EXSA award (Star) 2008
• Superstar, Singapore Health Quality Service Award 2013
National – National Service
• Good Service Medal, 1997
• National Service Medal, 2002
National - National Day Award
• Public Administration Medal (Bronze) 2019
• Long Service Medal, 2017
• Commendation Medal, 2003
Leadership positions / roles in Education:
• Clinical Senior Lecturer, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
• Physician Faculty, SingHealth Internal Medicine Residency Program
• Physician Faculty, SingHealth Infectious Diseases Senior Residency Program
Selected Publications:
Cheng LT, Chan LP,
Tan BH, Chen RC, Tay KH, Ling ML, Tan BS. Déjà Vu or Jamais Vu? How the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome experience influenced a Singapore radiology department's response to the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) epidemic. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2020;214:1206-1210.
Wee LE, Conceicao EP, Sim XYJ, Aung MK, Tan KY, Wong HM, Wijaya L,
Tan BH, Ling ML, Venkatachalam I. Minimising intra-hospital transmission of COVID-19: the role of social distancing. J Hosp Infect 2020;12:S0195-6701(20)30191-2.
Wee LE, Sim XYJ, Conceicao EP, Aung MK, Goh JQ, Yeo DWT, Gan WH, Chua YY, Wijaya L, Tan TT,
Tan BH. Containment of COVID-19 cases among healthcare workers: the role of surveillance, early detection, and outbreak management. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2020;11:1-7.
Chung SJ, Tan EK, Kee TYS…
Tan BH. Practical considerations for solid organ transplantation during the Covid-19 global outbreak: the experience from Singapore. Transplant Direct 2020;6:e554.
Ho QY, Chung SJ, Gan VHL, Ng LG,
Tan BH, Kee TYS. High-immunological risk living donor renal transplant during the COVID-19 outbreak: uncertainties and ethical dilemmas. Am J Transplant 2020;26. doi: 10.1111/ajt.15949.
Chia SZG, How KBM, Ling ML,
Tan BH et al. retrospective review of tuberculosis exposure among health care workers in a tertiary hospital. Am J Infect Control 2020;48:650.
Wee LE, Hsieh JYC, Phua GC, Tan Y, Conceicao EP, Wijaya L, Tan TT,
Tan BH. Respiratory surveillance wards as a strategy to reduce nosocomial transmission of COVID-19 through early detection: the experience of a tertiary-care hospital in Singapore. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2020 May 8:1-6. doi: 10.1017/ice.2020.207.
Wee LE, Fua TP, Chua YY, Ho AFW, Sim XYJ, Conceicao EP, Venkatachalam I, Tan KB,
Tan BH. Containing COVID-19 in the emergency department: the role of improved case detection and segregation of suspect cases. Acad Emerg Med 2020;27:379-387.
Da Zhuang K, Tan BS,
Tan BH, Too CW, Tay KH. Old threat, new enemy: is your interventional radiology service ready for the Coronavirus Disease 2019? Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 2020;43:665-666.
Tan BH, Chakrabarti A, Patel A, Chua MMM, Sun PL, Liu Z, Rotjanapan P, Li R, Wahyuningsih R, Chayakulkeeree M, Chen YC; Asia Fungal Working Group (AFWG). Clinicians' challenges in managing patients with invasive fungal diseases in seven Asian countries: an Asia Fungal Working Group (AFWG) survey. Int J Infect Dis 2020;13:S1201-9712(20)30009-6.
Tan HZ, Choo JCJ,
Tan BH, Mok IYJ, Lim CC.Tan HZ, et al. Cytomegalovirus preventive strategies in lupus nephritis and renal vasculitis treated with immunosuppressants. Lupus 2020;29:351-352. doi: 10.1177/0961203320902532.
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BH Tan et al. Predictors of mortality in solid organ transplant recipients
with bloodstream infections due to carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales: The impact of cytomegalovirus disease and lymphopenia. Am J Transpl 2020 (in press)
Cornely OA, Alastruey-Isquedo A, …
Tan BH … Chakrabarti A. Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of mucormycosis: an initiative of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology in cooperation with the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium. Lancet Infect Dis 2019;19:e405-e421
Wee LE, Tan AL, Wijaya L, Chlebicki MP, Thumboo J and
Tan BH. Timeliness of Infectious Diseases referral and inappropriate antibiotic usage post-referral in an Asian tertiary hospital. Trop Med Infect Dis 2019, 4, 137; doi:10.3390
Martinez-Vega R, Jauneikaite E, Thoon KC, Chua HY, Huishi Chua A, Khong WX,
Tan BH et al. Risk factor profiles and clinical outcomes for children and adults with pneumococcal infections in Singapore: A need to expand vaccination policy? PLoS One 2019;14:e0220951.
Lim CC,
Tan BH, Tung YT, Huang H, Hao Y, Mok IYJ, Lee PH, Choo JCJ. Risk-stratified approach to anti-viral prophylaxis against cytomegalovirus disease in glomerulonephritis and renal vasculitis treated with potent immunosuppressants. Infect Dis 2019;51:745-752.
Wong SY,
Tan BH. Megatrends in Infectious Diseases: The Next 10 to 15 Years. Ann Acad Med Singapore 2019;48:188-194.
Guo Y, Tan EK, Krishnamoorthy TL, Tan CK,
Tan BH et al. Outcomes of salvage liver transplant for recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma: A comparison with primary liver transplant. Ann Hepatobiliary Pancreat Surg 2019;23:1-7.
Zhou PY, Lim TP, Tang SLS, Lee HLW, Tan TT,
Tan BH et al. Subtherapeutic posaconazole troughs despite high-dose posaconazole tablets in a patient with terminal ileum resection. J Infect 2019;78:409-421.
Teh YE, Lim CP, Teo LLY, Soon JL, Chao VTT, Neo CL, Tan JLL, Kerk KL, Sim DKL, Tan TE,
Tan BH et al. Staphylococcal driveline infections are the predominant type of left ventricular assist device associated infections in Singapore. Inf Dis 2019 DOI: 10.1080/23744235.2019.1592216