Dr Chia Puey Ling is our visiting consultant in Woodlands Health for medical oncology.

Dr Chia is a Medical Oncology Consultant at Tan Tock Seng Hospital with subspecialty interest in thoracic and genitourinary oncology.

After completing her basic physician training in Singapore and obtaining membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom (MRCP) and Master of Medicine (Int. Med) Singapore, she subsequently underwent advanced specialist training in Medical Oncology in Melbourne, Australia. She obtained the fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) with specialty training in Medical oncology and went on to pursue further PhD research related to thoracic oncology which is her field of interest.

She received the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) Fellowship Award and the University of Melbourne Postgraduate Award and completed a PhD research on the study of tumour microenvironment and biomarkers in malignant mesothelioma for oncogenic targeted therapies. She is the principle investigator or co-investigator for several international multi-centre cancer clinical trials including novel immunotherapy, targeted agents and drugs in early phase development. She has also published numerous first-author papers, including the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI) and Lung Cancer Journal.