A/Prof Ng Kar Hui obtained her Master of Medicine (Paediatrics) and has been a fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (UK). She is accredited as a specialist in Paediatric Medicine and Paediatric Nephrology by the Ministry of Health, Singapore. A/Prof Ng's clinical practice involves all areas of paediatric nephrology, including dialysis and kidney transplantation. She has an interest in genetic kidney disease as well as dialysis in young children. She sees patients in the Kidney Genetics Clinic as well as expectant couples in Fetal Kidney Clinic.
A/Prof Ng pursued a two-year research fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital after receiving a fellowship from the Singapore National Medical Research Council. Upon her return, she pioneered the research programme on the genetics of kidney diseases in Singapore, and started the collaborative network DRAGoN (Deciphering Diversities: Renal Asian Genetics Network) to study this across South Asia. She was the Principal Investigator for national competitive research grants including the Clinician Scientist Awards. She also founded and leads the Renal Alliance for PrecIsion Diagnosis in Singapore (RAPIDS) which comprises of a multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary network of kidney and genomics experts and aims to implement genomics medicine in kidney clinical practice. She is a Subject Editor for the Nephrology Journal and has published and reviewed many papers in her field in the medical literature.
In addition, she has written several book chapters and has been invited to lecture at various overseas medical congresses. Being an Education Ambassador in the International Society of Nephrology, she frequently travels to the less privileged communities in Asia to teach paediatric nephrology to doctors. A/Prof Ng also enjoys teaching paediatrics to medical students and young doctors and is a two-time recipient of the NUS Faculty Teaching Excellence Award.
She is currently a member in the Paediatric Medicine Resident Advisory Committee as well as the Clinical Ethics Committee in NUH. She also leads efforts in clinical implementation of genomics medicine in NUHS.
