A/Prof Ng Kar Hui obtained her Master of Medicine (Paediatrics) and has been a member 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.
Dr Ng's clinical practice involves all areas of paediatric nephrology, including dialysis and kidney transplantation. Besides her special interest in genetic kidney disease, she currently also leads the paediatric dialysis service and the Fetal Kidney Clinic in NUH. 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. Dr Ng also enjoys teaching paediatrics to medical students and young doctors and has received the NUS Faculty Teaching Excellence Award twice.
Dr Ng's research interests are in: Genetic Glomerular Disease in Childhood, Patho-mechanism of Nephrotic Syndrome and Cardiovascular Diseases in Paediatric Chronic Kidney Disease. She pursued a two-year research fellowship in Paediatric Nephrology at Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School after receiving the National Medical Research Council Fellowship. Upon her return, she pioneered the research programme on genetics of kidney diseases in Singapore. She has 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. She has published many papers in her field in the medical literature and has been invited to review research manuscripts in several medical journals.
