Faculty

Dr. Michelle Tan graduated from the National University of Singapore in 2007 and received her postgraduate paediatric and neonatal training at the National University Hospital (NUH). She obtained her Membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (United Kingdom) and Masters of Medicine, Paediatrics (Singapore) in 2011, and completed her advanced specialist training in 2014.

In addition to general paediatric gastrointestinal diseases, Dr. Tan’s interests are in childhood nutrition, gut motility, gastro-esophageal reflux disease and feeding-related issues in children. She is also part of the multidisciplinary team running the Feeding Clinic in NUH.

She was awarded the TEAM Academic Medicine Development Award (AMDA) in 2014, for which she did an attachment in Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, specialising in children with aero-digestive issues. In 2016, she did an attachment in the gastroenterology unit at the Great Ormond Street Hospital and John Radcliffe Hospital in the United Kingdom under the AMDA scheme from the Ministry of Health.

Other than being involved in clinical work, Dr. Tan is a clinical tutor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS). She is also part of the Faculty team (Paediatrics) of the NUHS Residency Programme involving education activities of residents