Dr Kuan Win Sen is Senior Consultant and Research Director at the Emergency Medicine Department, National University Hospital, Core Faculty of the NUHS Emergency Medicine Residency Program, and Senior Consultant at the Urgent Care Centre, Alexandra Hospital. He concurrently holds the appointment of Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. He is also Research Officer at the Value Driven Office, Academic Informatics Office, NUHS, and is a member of the National Value-Based Healthcare Sepsis Clinician Workgroup and the Expert Group for the Agency for Care Effectiveness Clinical Guidance for Community-Acquired Pneumonia.
Dr Kuan is the department's clinical champion for sepsis, pneumonia, and pneumothorax. He was conferred the National Medical Excellence Team Award (2014) for outstanding contributions in improving hospital mortality rates and achieving significant cost savings for patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia. He was part of the team that won the Outstanding Poster Award for Value-Driven Care in Sepsis at the VDC Conference (2019) and the inaugural ICHOM–NEJM Catalyst Implementation Prize (2022) for sepsis outcomes work. In recognition of his research contributions, he has been conferred the NMRC Transition Award (2015), NMRC Clinician Innovator Development Award (2021), and NHIC Innovation to Startup (I2Start) Award (2024), the last supporting development of a field-deployable immune response profiling platform for sepsis. He also holds three patents reflecting his commitment to clinical innovation.
His research interests encompass sepsis, emergency critical care, MedTech, and value-based healthcare, with over 130 peer-reviewed publications to his name in high-impact journals including Annals of Emergency Medicine, European Heart Journal, European Journal of Heart Failure and Small. He maintains an h-index of 30 and is an active reviewer for more than 10 international journals. His education portfolio includes serving as a certified instructor for both the Advanced Cardiac Life Support and Advanced Trauma Life Support courses since 2008, regular facilitation at regional and local evidence-based medicine workshops. He has contributed to 19 chapters across leading emergency medicine textbooks.
Dr Kuan has fostered international collaborations through the Asia, Australia and New Zealand Dyspnoea in Emergency Departments (AANZDEM) Study Group, the Headache in Emergency Departments (HEAD) Study Group, and PREDICT-19 Consortium. He currently serves as Council Member of the College of Emergency Physicians and is a Fellow of the College of Clinician Scientists, Academy of Medicine, Singapore. He welcomes academic and commercial collaborations locally and internationally in emergency medicine and his areas of research interest.
