Dr Kenny Ching Pan Sze is a Specialist Gastroenterologist with clinical interests and active practice across all aspects of general gastroenterology and hepatology, including screening, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and long term case management.
His medical and specialist training and qualifications include:
- Bachelor of Science (Medicine), Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (Hons) from University of New South Wales [BSc(Med) MBBS (Hons)]
- Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP)
- Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore (FAMS)
- Gastrointestinal endoscopy accreditation by the Australian National Conjoint Committee for the Recognition of Training in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (CCRTGE)
- Advanced Hepatology fellowship as Liver Fellow at the Australian National Liver Transplant Unit (ANLTU), focusing on liver diseases, liver failure, liver cancer and liver transplantation
Current appointments and roles:
- Board Member, Chapter of Gastroenterologists, College of Physicians, Academy of Medicine, Singapore (AMS)
- Executive Committee Member, Gastroenterological Society of Singapore (GESS)
- Executive Committee Member, National Foundation for Digestive Diseases (NFDD)
- Member, Ministry of Health National Gastroenterology Workgroup
- Physician Faculty, NHG Health Residency Programme
- Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University
- Clinical Lecturer, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
- Chairperson, Nutrition Workgroup, KTPH
- Deputy Chairperson, Endoscopy Committee, KTPH
- Chairperson, Peer Review Learning, Gastroenterology, KTPH
Research Trials
Site Primary Investigator for Ensemble of Multi-disciplinary Systems and Integrated Omics for NAFLD (EMULSION) diagnostic and therapeutic discovery
Publications
- Full adherence to cirrhosis quality indicators is associated with lower mortality in acute variceal bleeding: Nationwide audit. (Original article) Wong YJ, Teng M, Sim A, Thet HM, Teoh X, De Roza MA, Sen Kew G, Koh JH, Loi PL, Lim K, Kang G, Kuang J, Low EXS, Ho JL, Cher LYG, Sze K, Wong GW, Kwek BYA, Yang WL, Abraldes JG, Chang J. Full adherence to cirrhosis quality indicators is associated with lower mortality in acute variceal bleeding: Nationwide audit. Hepatology. 2024 Oct 1;80(4):872-886
- Associations of non-invasive indices of liver steatosis and fibrosis with progressive kidney impairment in adults with type 2 diabetes. (Original article) Moh MC, Pek SLT, Sze KCP, Low S, Subramaniam T, Ang K, Tang WE, Lee SBM, Sum CF, Lim SC. Acta Diabetologica, vol 60, pp 827-835, 2023
- Utility of ultrathin colonoscope for incomplete initial colonoscopy in the same setting. (Conference poster abstract) Ng YC, Cher GLY, Ho GH, Sze KCP, Yip BCH, Tan KY, Anastassiades CP. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 89(6):AB528, June 2019
- A tough DISH to swallow. (Conference poster abstract) Ching SY, Yip BCH, Sze KCP, Anastassiades CP. American Journal of Gastroenterology. 113:S1020-S1021, October 2018
- Safety and efficacy of ERCP in patients with periampullary diverticulum at a general hospital in Singapore. (Conference poster abstract) Ho JL, Yip BCH, Sze KCP, Seneviratna A, Anastassiades CP. American Journal of Gastroenterology. 113:S50, October 2018
- Subepithelial lesion biopsy: bite-on-bite bites back. (Conference poster abstract) Ching SY, Sze KCP, Yip BCH, Wee EWL, Anastassiades CP. American Journal of Gastroenterology. 113:S1655, October 2018
- Endoscopic techniques and clinical outcomes in non-variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding at a general hospital in Singapore. (Conference poster abstract) Ching SY, Yip BCH, Sze KCP, Hossain SS, Wang, Anastassiades CP. American Journal of Gastroenterology. 113:S316, October 2018
- Diagnostic performance of faecal calprotectin in Singaporean patients. (Original article) Kwok R, Peter F, Page BP, Ahmed T, Tay DX, Woo AS, Yip BC, Sze KC, Wee EW. Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, vol 31, pp 212-212, 2016
- Is there such a thing as protocol immunosuppression in liver transplantation? (Editorial) McCaughan GW, Sze KCP, Strasser SI. Expert Review of Gastroenterology & Hepatology vol 9, issue 1, 2015
- Current options for the diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis. (Review article) Sze KCP, Pirola RC, Apte MV, Wilson JS. Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics vol 14, no.2, pp 19-215, 2014
- Thiopurine prescribing and monitoring behaviour, including metabolites testing and allopurinol co-therapy: an Australian perspective from 2008 to 2013. (Conference poster abstract) Sze KC, Siriwardana A, Sechi A, Ng WSW, Connor SJ. Gastroenterology. 146. S-249. 10.1016/S0016-5085(14)60876-3 (2014).
- Thiopurine metabolite monitoring and allopurinol combination therapy: current utilisation and influence on Australian gastroenterology IBD practice. (Conference poster abstract) Sze KCP, Ng W, Connor SJ. Journal of Crohn's and Colitis. 8. S194. 10.1016/S1873-9946(14)60432-3. (2014).
- Thiopurine use and metabolites monitoring in inflammatory bowel disease: current practice in Australia. (Conference poster abstract) Sze, KCP, Sechi A, Ng W, Connor S. Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 28. 97-97 (2013).
- High prevalence of hypoxaemia in cirrhotic patients being worked up for liver transplantation. Is this hepatopulmonary syndrome? (Conference oral abstract) Tse E, Sze K, Lau Edmund, McCaughan G, Strasser SI. 15th Annual Congress of the International Liver Transplantation Society, Volume: 15, S109-S109 (2009).
- Asthma admissions in a tertiary referral centre over the last ten years (Conference poster abstract) Brown EC, Sze K, Thomas PS. Respirology. 12 supplement 1: A34, March 2007.
- Features of pneumonia in febrile children (Award-winning abstract) Sze KCP, Macara M, Williams GJ, Codarini MG, Fitzgerald D, Issacs D, Prelog K, Craig JC Journal of Paediatrics & Child Health. 42(11): A16. Annual Scientific Meeting, Paediatrics & Child Health Division, The Royal Australasian College of Physicians, November 2006
