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2024/03/11
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Adj A/Prof Chin Hui-Lin

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Designations:

  • Senior Consultant, Division of Genetics and Metabolism, Department of Paediatrics, Khoo Teck Puat - National University Children's Medical Institute, National University Hospital
  • Senior Consultant, NUWoC Children's Clinic, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore

Qualifications:

MBBS (S'pore), MMed (Paeds) (S'pore), MRCPCH (UK), MCI, FAMS

Specialties/Sub-specialties:

Paediatric Medicine

Clinical Disciplines/Programmes:

Paediatric Genetics & Metabolism (Inherited Conditions)

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Adj A/Prof Chin Hui Lin is a Senior Consultant with the Division of Genetics and Metabolism, Khoo Teck Puat–National University Children’s Medical Institute, National University Hospital, and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Paediatrics at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS. She is also Lead for Clinical Service and Clinical Training (NUWoC) at the National University Centre for Genomic Medicine (NUGEM).

Dr Chin graduated from Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (Jane Prize in Paediatrics), completed paediatric residency at the National University Health System, and earned her Master of Medicine (Paediatrics) and MRCPCH. She is a Singapore Medical Council–registered Specialist in Paediatric Medicine and completed a Clinical Genetics fellowship at Provincial Medical Genetics, BC Children’s Hospital, Vancouver. She holds a Master in Clinical Investigation (NRF–MOH Healthcare Research Scholarship).

Her clinical practice focuses on diagnosis and management of rare and complex paediatric conditions, diagnosis of genetic diseases in patients of all ages, and prenatal genetic evaluation and counselling. She provides genetic expertise to external organisations, including the Ministry of Health, and is actively involved in development of institutional and national infrastructure to deliver high quality genomics services.

Dr Chin’s research interests include rare diseases, genomic analysis and variant interpretation, and she has multiple peer reviewed publications. An experienced educator, she has received several teaching awards from NUS and NUH.

Awards

  • 2019 - NUS Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence
  • 2018 - EQUIP Best project award and QIP Recognition Award for "Reducing Intubation related complications and improving intubation first pass rates in the Children's Emergency"
  • 2016 - NUS Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence, NUS Junior Doctor Teaching Award

Journals & Publications

  1. Shetty, S. S., Palaniappan, J. A., Kuek, W. C. D., Van, D. T., Low, J. M., Wang, F., Yan, B., Tay, S. K., & Chin, H. L. (2026). Implementation of spinal muscular atrophy screening for newborns at a Singapore tertiary hospital. Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, 55(2), 102–105. 
  2. Aishworiya, R., Chin, H. L., & Savulescu, J. (2025). Should newborn genetic testing for autism be introduced?. Journal of medical ethics, 51(9), 603–608. 
  3. Lim, C., Lim, R. S., Choo, J., Leow, E. H., Chan, G. C., Zhang, Y., Ng, J. L., Chin, H. L., Tan, E. S., Goh, J., Gandhi, N., Ng, Y. H., Than, M., Ganesan, I., Chong, S. L., Yap, C., Chao, S. M., Cham, B., Kam, S., Lim, J. Y., … Ng, K. H. (2025). Clinical Implementation of Nephrologist-Led Genomic Testing for Glomerular Diseases in Singapore: Rationale and Protocol. American journal of nephrology, 56(2), 158–171.
  4. Chin, H. L., Lai, P. S., & Tay, S. K. H. (2024). A clinical approach to diagnosis and management of mitochondrial myopathies. Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics, 21(1), e00304. 
  5. Handra, J., Elbert, A., Gazzaz, N., Moller-Hansen, A., Hyunh, S., Lee, H. K., Boerkoel, P., Alderman, E., Anderson, E., Clarke, L., Hamilton, S., Hamman, R., Hughes, S., Ip, S., Langlois, S., Lee, M., Li, L., Mackenzie, F., Patel, M. S., Prentice, L. M., … Armstrong, L. (2023). The practice of genomic medicine: A delineation of the process and its governing principles. Frontiers in medicine, 9, 1071348. 
  6. Chin, H. L., Gazzaz, N., Huynh, S., Handra, I., Warnock, L., Moller-Hansen, A., Boerkoel, P., Jacobsen, J., du Souich, C., Zhang, N., Shefchek, K., Prentice, L. M., Washington, N., Haendel, M., Armstrong, L., Clarke, L., Li, W. L., Smedley, D., Robinson, P. N., & Boerkoel, C. F. (2022). The Clinical Variant Analysis Tool: Analyzing the evidence supporting reported genomic variation in clinical practice. Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics, S1098-3600(22)00703-1. Advance online publication.

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