Bio
Dr. Kenneth Chang is senior consultant paediatric pathologist and Head of Department, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Singapore. He is Adjunct Associate Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School, and Academic Vice-Chair for Clinical Service Innovation in the SingHealth Duke-NUS Pathology Academic Clinical Programme. He is Principal Investigator and Steering Committee member in the VIVA-KKH Paediatric Brain and Solid Tumours Programme. He is also Director of the SingHealth Tissue Repository and Advanced Molecular Pathology Laboratory, which are core research platforms in the SingHealth Academic Medical Centre. Since 2011, he has been Visiting Consultant at the Division of Forensic Medicine, Applied Sciences Group, Health Sciences Authority.
Dr. Chang trained in paediatric pathology at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada and University of Toronto, completing a 2-year clinical fellowship from 2007 to 2009. More recently in the summer of 2015, he was a visiting fellow at the University of British Columbia and BC Cancer Agency. Currently, he is a Council Member in the International Paediatric Pathology Association and plays a role in outreach to paediatric pathologists in the Asia-Pacific region.
His research interests derive from his clinical responsibilities, and include molecular diagnostics in relation to paediatric cancers, paediatric sarcomas with a focus on BCOR-mutated sarcomas, and placental pathology. He has published more than 95 scientific articles and 5 book chapters.
Education
Postgraduate Diploma in Health Care Management
Singapore Management University, Singapore
Fellow, Royal Coll of Pathologists
Royal College of Pathologists (UK), United Kingdom
Member, Royal Coll of Pathologists
Royal College of Pathologists (UK), United Kingdom
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
University of Glasgow, Singapore