Dr Chua Mui Teng is Senior Consultant and Deputy Research Director at the Emergency Medicine Department (EMD), National University Hospital, and Assistant Professor at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. She obtained her Master of Public Health in 2016 from the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, NUS. She was the inaugural Chief Resident of the NUHS Emergency Medicine Residency Programme.
She has strong clinical interests in emergency ultrasonography and critical care. She regularly conducts training of emergency medicine residents through ultrasound scan shifts. She pioneered the use of high flow nasal cannula oxygenation in the EMD.
As an avid clinician-investigator, Dr Chua has special research interests in critical care, infectious diseases and ultrasonography. She was awarded the NMRC New Investigator Grant in 2017 and has over 20 publications to her name, including one that was awarded the Annals Academy of Medicine, Singapore, Best Publication Silver Award in 2017. She has mentored several junior clinicians and medical students in their early research years.
Dr Chua is keen to seek collaborations in fields related to her research interests, academically and commercially, both locally and internationally.
