A/Prof Lahiri did her basic and postgraduate medical training in Internal Medicine at the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, and obtained membership of the Royal College of Physicians, UK in 2005. A/Prof Lahiri has lived in Singapore since 2001, and joined the National University Hospital in 2004, where she trained as a specialist in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology. She has done a fellowship in rheumatic disease epidemiology at the University of Manchester, UK. She is especially interested in early arthritis, immune-related adverse events from cancer immunotherapy (irAE) and healthcare quality and services research. A/Prof Lahiri has published on risk factors for early rheumatoid arthritis, and is the Principal Investigator (PI) for the Singapore Early Arthritis Cohort (SEAC), an observational study of early inflammatory arthritis in Singapore and the former founding site PI for the Singapore National Biologics Register (SNBR). A/Prof Lahiri has experience in leading the “High Value care” initiative for the University Medicine Cluster (UMC), looking at the outcomes and cost of healthcare delivery, and coordinating departmental efforts towards quality improvement and value driven outcomes (2016-2018) and also the distinction track in quality and innovation, which mentors residents hospital-wide in quality initiatives (2016-2021).
A/Prof Lahiri is passionate about teaching and is the recipient of several teaching awards, including the Fortitude award for teaching while working on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. She was the Associate Program Director for the NUHS Internal Medicine Residency Program from 2009 – 2015, and the Program Director for the Rheumatology Senior Residency Program from 2018-2021. She is now the Director of Undergraduate education for the Department of Medicine, for NUH and National University of Singapore School of Medicine (NUSMed), and the Phase V Director, NUSMed.
A/Prof Lahiri is the immediate past Chairperson (2019 to 2023) and former Vice-Chairperson (2017-2019) of the Chapter of Rheumatologists, College of Physicians, Academy of Medicine, Singapore. As Vice Chair/ Chairperson, she has led many collaborative national initiatives such as guidelines for subsidisation of biologics in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthrtis and psoriatic arthritis respectively, guidelines for care of patients with rheumatic diseases (PRD) during COVID-19, recommendations for vaccination of PRD against COVID-19, and an 8-hospital multi-site registry evaluating flares of rheumatic disease following COVID-19 vaccination.
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