Mui Teng Chua
Emergency Medicine Department, National University Hospital, National University Health System, Singapore; Department of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Research interests: critical care, point-of-care ultrasound, clinical trials, infectious diseases, epidemiology, machine learning and large language models
Dr Mui Teng Chua is Senior Consultant and Deputy Research Director at the Emergency Medicine Department (EMD), National University Hospital, and Assistant Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS). She obtained the Master of Public Health in 2016 from the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, NUS. She was the inaugural Chief Resident of the NUHS Emergency Medicine Residency Program.
She has strong clinical interests in emergency ultrasonography and critical care. She regularly conducts training of emergency medicine residents through ultrasound scan shifts. She pioneered the use of high flow nasal cannula oxygenation in the EMD.
As an avid clinician-investigator, she has special research interests in critical care, infectious diseases, ultrasonography and artificial intelligence. She was awarded the NMRC New Investigator Grant in 2017 and has over 40 publications to her name, including one that was awarded the Annals Academy of Medicine, Singapore, Best Publication Silver Award in 2017. She has mentored several junior clinicians and medical students in their early research years.
Dr Chua is keen to seek collaborations in fields related to her research interests, academically and commercially, both locally and internationally. Her academic contributions include book chapters in Guide to the Essentials in Emergency Medicine, 3rd edition.
Editorial Board (Emergency Medicine and Critical Care)
Terms of Appointment: November 2022 - October 2024; November 2024 - October 2026
