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2024/03/11
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Dr Clare Anne Fong Yoke Kum

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Designations:

  • Consultant, Division of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Alexandra Hospital
  • Consultant, Division of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital

Qualifications:

MBBS (Singapore), MRCP (UK), MMed (Singapore)

Specialties/Sub-specialties:

Respiratory Medicine

Clinical Disciplines/Programmes:

Medicine

Special Interests:

Critical care medicine, bronchoscopy and pleuroscopy, general respiratory medicine

Biosketch

Dr Clare Fong graduated from Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and completed her post-graduate residency training in Internal Medicine in the National University Health System. She has completed her Respiratory Medicine training in National University Hospital where she served as chief resident, and has obtained specialist accreditation in both Respiratory Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine. She is actively involved in clinical faculty teaching with Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and is also passionate about post-graduate education where she serves as core faculty in the Internal Medicine residency programme.

Dr Fong’s interests include critical care medicine, interventional pulmonology, particularly in the field of navigational bronchoscopy in the diagnoses of peripheral pulmonary lesions and medical thoracoscopy.

Journals & Publications

  1. Fong C, Chang Tan CW, Yan Tan DK, See KC. Safety of Thoracentesis and Tube Thoracostomy in Patients With Uncorrected Coagulopathy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Chest. 2021 Apr 24:S0012-3692(21)00761-3. [IF - 9.41]
  2. Fong CAYK, Tung BWL, Lin W, See KC. Malignant arrhythmia in a COVID-19 patient with a structurally normal heart. Singapore Med J. 2021 Nov 8. [IF - 3.33]
  3. Fong C, Kueh WL, Lew SJW, Ho BCH, Wong YL, et al; for SICM-NICER group. Predictors and outcomes of withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments in intensive care units in Singapore: a multicentre observational study. J Intensive Care. 2024 Mar 26;12(1):13 [IF - 4.7]
  4. Fong, Clare, Lee YCG, Maskell N, Lee P. The evolving role of medical thoracoscopy on therapeutic management of pleural disease. Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine 31(1):p 35-40, January 2025. [IF - 2.8]

2026/08/14
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