Chetna Malhotra

Dr Chetna MALHOTRA

Associate Professor, Deputy Director Research

Qualifications: M.B.B.S., M.D. (Community Medicine), M.P.H

Office Email: chetna.malhotra@duke-nus.edu.sg
Contact: (65) 6516 5692

Brief Biography:

Dr Malhotra is an Associate Professor, Deputy Director of Research at Lien Centre for Palliative Care and Program in Health Services and Systems Research, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. She is a clinician-scientist focusing on research to improve the delivery of end-of-life care for patients with advanced serious illnesses and their caregivers. Her work currently focuses on two key themes - Advance care planning, and Caregiving for individuals with serious illnesses including those with dementia.

Dr Malhotra has published more than 140 scientific manuscripts in leading journals in the field of medicine, geriatrics and oncology. Her research has been funded by National Medical Research Council, Temasek Foundation, Agency for Integrated Care and National Kidney Foundation.  In 2022, she was awarded the Clinician Scientist Award by Singapore’s National Medical Research Council. She is an editorial board member for ‘Age and Ageing’. She regularly mentors students interested in doing palliative care research.

Affiliations:

• Associate Professor in Lien Centre for Palliative Care (primary)
• Associate Professor in Program in Health Services and Systems Research, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore (Primary)

Research Areas:

• Patient preferences for end of life care
• Patient-physician communication at end of life
• Advance care planning

Teaching Areas:

• Health Services Research

Academic/Professional Qualifications:

• MBBS (2002) Rabindranath Tagore Medical College, University of Rajasthan, India
• MD (2004) Community Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College, University of Delhi, India
• MPH (2007) School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, USA,

Awards/Honours (Post-PhD):

• Best Oral Paper Award in the Health Services & Systems Research Category conferred at the SingHealth Duke-NUS Congress 2010, Singapore
• Outstanding presentation award Asia-Pacific Conference of the Society for Medical Decision Making, Singapore, 6-8 January 2014
• First prize for oral presentation at the Singapore Palliative Care Conference, Singapore, 28-29 June 2014.
• First prize for poster presentation conferred at the SingHealth Duke-NUS Congress 2014, Singapore, 5-6 September 2014.

Career History:

• Senior Resident, Community Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi, India (2005-2006)
• Research Fellow, Health Services and Systems Research, Duke-NUS (2008-2010)
• Senior Research Fellow, Health Services and Systems Research (2011-2012)

Administrative Leadership:

• HSSR PhD course coordinator (2018-present)