Rheumatology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Adj A/Prof Leong Khai Pang received his undergraduate medical education from the National University of Singapore. In 1993, he started training as a rheumatologist in Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH). He helped his supervisor Professor Chng Hiok Hee start the first clinical allergy and immunology service in the country. He was appointed Head of the Clinical Immunology Laboratory in TTSH since 1997. He was the director of research of TTSH from 2005 to 2019. He started the Personalised Medicine Service, incorporating the Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory, in TTSH in 2015. He was president of the Singapore Society of Rheumatology, President from 2012 to 2018.
Publications
1. The Singapore National Precision Medicine Strategy.
2. Comparison of mental-physical comorbidity, risk of death and mortality among patients with mental disorders - A retrospective cohort study.
3. Exome sequencing of Singapore Chinese anti-citrullinated-protein-antibody-positive rheumatoid arthritis patients
4. Validating two international warfarin pharmacogenetic dosing algorithms for estimating the maintenance dose for patients in Singapore.
5. A Catalogue of Structural Variation acrossAncestrally Diverse Asian Genomes
6. A six-year trend of youth depression in a healthcare group in Singapore.
7. Missense variant in interleukin-6 signal transducer identified as susceptibility locus for rheumatoid arthritis in Chinese patients.
8. Pharmacogenomics and Rheumatological Practice
9. Clinical remission of rheumatoid arthritis in a multicenter real-world study in Asia-Pacific region.
10. Pregnancy loss and the risk of rheumatoid arthritis in Chinese women: findings from the China Kadoorie biobank.
11. The axis of complement C1 and nucleolus in antinuclear autoimmunity.
12. A five-safes approach to a secure and scalable genomics data repository.
