Faculty

Dr. Kumudhini Rajasegaran, is a paediatrician, senior consultant and former head of the Adolescent Medicine Service, at KK Women’s & Children’s Hospital in Singapore for the last 12 years.  Dr. Rajasegaran is also visiting consultant at the Eating Disorder Unit, at Singapore General Hospital and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Duke National University Singapore Medical School. She received her medical training at the University College Dublin, Ireland.

Dr Rajasegaran has been responsible for taking the lead in the further development of adolescent health, having been the joint recipient of a multi-million dollar health service development award. During this project she was successful at developing Adolescent Medicine as a distinct sub-speciality and multidisciplinary service. Under adolescent medicine, she has played a key role in the development of specialised obesity and eating disorder programmes within KKH. Specifically, she played a key role in the development of Family Based Treatment, in response to the large increase of referrals across the last few years.   Furthermore, she was jointly responsible for the establishment of multidisciplinary service, SCAN, to manage suspected neglect and abuse of children, and has actively involved in projects aimed at facilitating better communication and collaborating between community resources, and different government sectors, for improved care of children and adolescents.