Dr Chan Gek Cher is a Senior Consultant from the Division of Nephrology (Department of Medicine), as well as the Programme Director of NUHS Renal Medicine Senior Residency. She runs the Glomerulonephritis and Kidney Precision Medicine Clinic in National University Hospital, and serves as the current Assistant Treasurer of the Singapore Society of Nephrology. She was a former Board Member of the Chapter of Renal Physicians (College of Physicians, Academy of Medicine, Singapore).
Dr Chan graduated from University College Cork (University of Ireland), and had won the title of College Scholar during medical school for outstanding academic performance. She underwent training in the NUH Internal Medicine Residency during which she served as the Resident representative of Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee, and completed her specialist training in NUHS Renal Medicine Senior Residency Programme, where she served as Chief Resident (2014-2016).
Dr Chan's clinical and research interests are in glomerulonephritis, genetic kidney disease, kidney disease in pregnancy, diabetic nephropathy and chronic kidney disease. Since her graduation, she was awarded the National Medical Research Council Training Fellowship Award in 2018, where she underwent a research fellowship with the Shankland Lab at the University of Washington (Seattle, USA) for 2 years. She subsequently completed her Masters in Clinical Investigation (National University of Singapore, Class of 2021), and she is now pursuing a PhD with NUS. Dr Chan has won multiple research awards and seed grants, and has presented at multiple local and international conferences. She is the site's Principal Investigator and co-investigator of several clinical trials and collaborative research projects in NUH.
