Bio
Professor Ivy Ng has been the Senior Advisor of SingHealth Board since February 2024. Prior to her appointment as SingHealth Board's Senior Advisor, Prof Ng was the Group CEO of SingHealth from 2012 to 2024, Prof Ng was the CEO of KK Woman’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH) from 2004 to 2012, and Deputy CEO of SingHealth from 2008 to 2012. She was KKH’s Chairman of the Medical Board from 2003 to 2004 and Head of the Hospital’s Department of Paediatric Medicine from 2002 to 2003.
A paediatric geneticist by training, Prof Ng is a practising clinician and serves as Senior Consultant in the Genetics Service, Department of Paediatric Medicine at KKH and Director of the National Thalassaemia Registry. Prof Ng’s research interests include thalassaemia (prevention, molecular variants, epidemiology), dysmorphology and mental retardation. She is known for her work in thalassemia, and has published extensively in the area of genetic counselling and thalassemia.
On the education front, Prof Ng plays an active role in the education of medical students and Residents in her capacities as Clinical Professor of Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS and Adjunct Professor of Duke-NUS.
Education
Fellow, Royal Coll of Paediatrics & Child Health
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, United Kingdom
Fellow, Royal Coll of Physicians, Edinburgh
Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Fellow Academy of Medicine of Singapore
Academy of Medicine, Singapore
Master of Medicine (Paediatrics)
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
National University of Singapore, Singapore
NUS Appointment(s)
Clinical Professor
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine,
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