Bio
Dr Tan received his basic medical degree from the National University of Singapore and continued his postgraduate Internal Medicine training in Singapore. He obtained membership from the Royal College of Physicians (UK) in 2001. He qualified in the specialty of Infectious Disease in 2004 and earned a PhD in Microbiology from Lund University, Sweden in 2007. He became Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases Department in SGH in 2014. His clinical and research interest is in infections in immunocompromised hosts. He has received funding for research from Singapore’s NMRC and other agencies. He has served as advisory board member to several pharmaceutical companies in the past. He has co-authored more than 60 peer-reviewed manuscripts to date. He is currently a Co-director at the SingHealth-Duke NUS Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI) and is the Vice Chair, Clinical Service Improvement & Innovation in Medicine Academic Clinical Programme.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
Lund University, Sweden
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
National University of Singapore, Singapore