Associate Professor Roy Joseph
Senior Consultant, Department of Neonatology
MBBS, MMed(Paed), FRCPCH(UK), FAMS
A/Prof Roy read Medicine at the Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, aided by a Government of India Cultural Scholarship. Returning to Singapore he was trained as a Paediatrician at the National University of Singapore. His subspecialisation in Neonatology began in 1980 at the Kandang Kerbau Hospital, Singapore. At the Queen Victoria Medical Centre, Melbourne, additional training under the supervision of Prof Victor Yu was obtained in 1983. From 1997-2005, he was the Chief of Department of Neonatology at the National University Hospital and now continues as one its senior consultants. In 2004, he was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
Neonatal special and intensive care, newborn screening, well baby and child care, long term management of the congenital hypothyroid, developmental assessment and disorders and chairing the NUH Clinical Bioethics Committee form the sphere of A/P Roy’s clinical practice. He also provides ad-hoc consultation on general paediatric ailments. Evidence, tempered with art forms the basis of his practice.
Directing undergraduate and postgraduate education and training in Neonatology and General paediatrics , assisting in the development of an undergraduate Medical Ethics and Law curriculum , chairing the Phase 1 Patient Based Programme and serving in the National Medical Ethic Committee are his areas of academic and administrative responsibilities.
Research activities aim at improving medical education and in preventing mental and developmental retardation through providing a safe transition into the extrauterine environment and universal newborn screening for selected congenital conditions.
