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Dr Chan Ling Ling underwent medical school training in the National University of Singapore, and radiology specialist training in the Singapore General and Tan Tock Seng Hospitals. Dr Chan completed a double Neuroradiology fellowship in the Houston Texas Medical Centre, viz M. D. Anderson Cancer Centre and Affiliated Hospitals of The Baylor College of Medicine. She is a Senior Consultant in the Department of Neuroradiology, Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and National Neuroscience Institute, working closely with clinicians and the MR radiographic and physicist teams to translate advanced MRI techniques into service to solve clinical problems. She is passionate about neuroimaging and research, and is a national Senior Clinician Scientist awardee leading a neuroimaging research program that focuses on chronic neurological diseases such as Parkinsonism and gait disorders, traumatic brain injury, aging and dementia. She has local and international university and industry collaborations with centres from Korea, Taiwan, Europe and USA. Her strong partnerships have widened the repertoire of advanced MRI and AI tools that her team uses to track structural and functional changes and aid in the radiological workflow, diagnosis and prediction.
Dr Chan is a Clinical Professor at the Radiological Sciences (RADSC) and Neuroscience Academic Clinical Programmes (ACP) and the Neuroscience & Behavioural Disorders Signature Research Programme at the Duke-NUS Medical School, and the Academic Vice Chair of Research at the RADSC ACP. She is also the Director, Research in RADSC, Enabler Lead for RADSC in SGH, and sits in the Research Executive Committee of the Research Office in SGH. She has over 180 peer reviewed publications, 4556 citations, an i10-index of 113 and a H index of 36. She has mentored many students in research, presented or co-authored >260 abstracts at local, regional and international conferences, and received >50 awards/accolades as PI or supervisor. She is a speaker at numerous international and national conferences, including the RSNA and ISMRM, and was the Program Chair of the 2023 Asian-Oceanian Society of Neuroradiology and Head & Neck Radiology and SGCR. She serves as Vice-Chair of the MOH Research Training Review Panel, and is reviewer for numerous prestigious journals and funding agencies. She was the Honorary Secretary of the Singapore Radiological Society and current Secretary of the Neuroradiology Subsection of the Singapore Radiological Society.
Education
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
National University of Singapore, Singapore
NUS Appointment(s)
Examiner to Joint MMed (Diagnostic Radiology) and Final FRCR Part B Examination
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Division of Graduate Medical Studies,
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