Prof Victor Samuel Rajadurai is a Senior Consultant at the Department of Neonatology at the KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore. He has served as the Head of the Department for 11 years from 1.1.2006 until 31.12.2016. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Adjunct Associate Professor of Paediatrics, Lee Kong Chian (LKC) School of Medicine and also a visiting Professor of Tianjin Central Hospital and Shijiazhuang, China. He is also a Clinical Physician Faculty Member, Academic Medicine Research Institute (AMRI), SingHealth Residency Program.
Prof Rajadurai has extensive experience in Neonatology spanning more than 30 years. His past academic roles include memberships of the Editorial Board, Annals of Academy of Medicine and Joint Committee on Specialist Training (Paediatric Medicine & Neonatology) and President of the College of Paediatrics and Child Health. His current academic responsibilities include Chairman of JCST Neonatology, Director of the Staff Registrar Scheme – Diploma in Neonatology Programme and President of the Perinatal Society of Singapore. He is also a member of the Perinatal Society of Malaysia, Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand and the IPOKRaTES Group.
Prof Rajadurai has a number of research collaborations locally as well as internationally. His research interests are pulse oximetry of newborn, perinatal asphyxia, inhaled nitric oxide therapy, chronic lung disease of prematurity, neonatal nutrition, newborn screening and newer modes of neonatal ventilation. He was one of the pioneers in establishing the National Expanded Newborn Screening Program for metabolic disorders in Singapore. Prof Rajadurai has been invited to speak at national and international conferences and to conduct seminars / workshops on neonatal care in Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, India, China, Japan and Myanmar. His publications include 117 articles in journals, 4 chapters in books and 180 abstracts, which were presented in national and international conferences.
1. Lee J, Rajadurai VS, Tan KW, Wong KY, Wong EH, Leong JY. Randomized trial of prolonged low-dose versus conventional-dose indomethacin for treating patent ductus arteriosus in very low birth weight infants. Pediatrics. 2003 Aug;112(2):345-50. doi: 10.1542/peds.112.2.345. PMID: 12897285.
2. Cheng HK, Rajadurai VS, Z Amin, B Sriram, MF Yee, HH Han, HL Bock and A Safary. Immunogenicity and Reactogenicity of Two Regimens of Diphtheria-Tetanus-Acellular Pertussis-Hepatitis B Inactivated Polio and Haemophilus Influenzae Type B Vaccines Administered to Infants Primed at Birth with Hepatitis B Vaccine. Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health 2004; 35l: 685 -92.
3. Lai NM, Rajadurai VS, Tan KHH. Increased energy intake for preterm infants with (or developing) bronchopulmonary dysplasia / chronic lung disease. The Cochrane database of Systematic Review. Issues 1. 2007.
4. The HAPO Study Cooperative Research Group (Collaborator). Hyperglycemia and adverse pregnancy outcomes. N Eng J Med 2008; 358: 1991 -2002.
5. Collins CT, Chua MC, Rajadurai VS, McPhee AJ, Miller LN, Gibson RA, Makrides M. Higher protein and energy intake is associated with increased weight gain in preterm infants. J. Pediatr Child Health 2010; 46: 96-102.
6. P Agarwal, B Sriram, Lim SB, Tin AS, VS Rajadurai. Borderline Viability – Neonatal Outcomes of Infants in Singapore over a period of 18 years (1990 – 2007). Ann Acad Med Singapore 2013; 42:1-10.
7. Collins CT, Makrides M, McPhee AJ, Sullivan TR, Davis PG, Thio M, et al. Docosahexaenoic Acid and Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in Preterm Infants. New England Journal of Medicine. 2017;376(13):1245-55.
8. Agarwal PK, Shi L, Daniel LM, Yang PH, Khoo PC, Quek BH, Zheng Q, Rajadurai VS. Prospective evaluation of the Ages and Stages Questionnaire 3rd Edition in very-low-birthweight infants. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2016 Nov 24. Doi:10.1111/dmcn. 13307.
9. Eleah N Vidal, Victor Samuel Rajadurai, Amudha Jayanthi Anand, Suresh Chandran. Listeriosis during Pregnancy and in Newborn: 18 years of Data from a Large Tertiary Hospital in Singapore. Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. September 2019.
10. Srinivas Bolisetty, David Osborn, Tim Schindler, John Sinn et al. Standardised neonatal parenteral nutrition formulations – Australasian neonatal parenteral nutrition consensus update 2017. BMC Pediatrics 2020; 20:59-70.