Bio
Professor Lo graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1988. He joined the Department of Neurology, Singapore General Hospital in 1994 and completed his postgraduate fellowship in Clinical Neurophysiology at the University of Oxford in 1998. He has been a fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, since 1999. He is currently Head and Senior Consultant Neurologist at the National Neuroscience Institute (SGH Campus) and Professor, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School and Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore.
Professor Lo is active in the field of Clinical Neurophysiology. He was the founder president of the Clinical Neurophysiology Society (Singapore) and representative to the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology. He was an invited speaker for the World Congress of Neurology, as well as the European and International Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology in 2005, 2015 and 2010. In 2007, he was the awarded the Galloway Lectureship for his work in cervical myelopathy.
His main research interests are on spinal cord disorders, where he has held 3 National Medical Research Grants. He is principal investigator of projects addressing the functional neurophysiology of cord compression, mechanisms of cervical whiplash and cortical plasticity changes in spinal cord dysfunction. Other ongoing research include transcranial magnetic stimulation in motor control, magnetic modulation of lipid function in animal brain tissue, neuromuscular transmission in demyelinating neuropathies and optical imaging of cortical and cerebellar activity.
Professor Lo sits on the current editorial board of Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery and is a regular reviewer of over 20 international journals. He is the current Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare. He has over 100 publications in international peer reviewed journals, including first author papers in the New England Journal of Medicine, Neurology, The Lancet Neurology, Annals of Neurology, Brain, Archives of Neurology, Journal of Neurology, Spine, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, Nature Clinical Reviews Neurology and Movement Disorders.
His book titled “Clinical Neurophysiology: New Clinical and Research Applications” is published in 2013.
Education
Fellow Academy of Medicine of Singapore
Academy of Medicine, Singapore
Educational Commission of Foreign Med Grads
United States of America, United States
Master of Medicine (Internal Medicine)
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
National University of Singapore, Singapore
NUS Appointment(s)
Professor (Adjunct)
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS,
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Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Anatomy, NUS,
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