Dr Gerald Sng Gui Ren

Dr Gerald Sng is an Endocrinologist at Singapore General Hospital (SGH) with dual training in Public Health. His primary clinical interest is in the management of young adult diabetes and the use of diabetes technology. He is actively engaged in academic work in the fields of Endocrinology, Artificial Intelligence and Junior Doctor Wellbeing, and has been invited to speak at conferences and workshops on these topics. He is also a Data Science Fellow with the SGH Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory with a focus on clinical and research applications of large language models, and the Co-Programme Director of the new Residency in Real-World Data and Digital Health.

• Specialty Certificate in Endocrinology and Diabetes, Royal College of Physicians (United Kingdom)
• MPH, National University of Singapore
• MMed (Int Med), National University of Singapore
• MRCP(UK), Royal College of Physicians (United Kingdom)
• MBBS, National University of Singapore

• Co-Programme Director, Residency in Real-World Data and Digital Health, SingHealth
• Executive Committee Member, SingHealth Artificial Intelligence (AI) Office
• Data Science Fellow, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, SGH

• Outstanding Resident Award, SingHealth, 2024
• COVID-19 Resilience Medal, MOH, 2023
• Service with a Heart, SGH, 2021

• ​Diabetes and Lipid Disorders in Young Adults
• Public Health
• Artificial Intelligence
• Large Language Models

• Sng GGR, Tung JYM, Chua JL. The junior doctor experience in Singapore through a temporal prism. Ann Acad Med Singap. 2025 Sep;54(9). doi: 10.47102/annals-acadmedsg.2025257
• Lau SJY*, Sng GGR*, Cao R, Chen J. A comparative study of ChatGPT and DeepSeek in spinal cord injury patient education: can artificial intelligence “speak” spinal cord injury?. J Spinal Cord Med, September, 1–6. *co-first author
• Sng GGR, Xiang Y, Lim DYZ, Tung JYM, Tan JH, Chng CL. A multimodal large language model as an end-to-end classifier of thyroid nodule malignancy risk: Usability study. JMIR Form Res. 2025;9:e70863.
• Sng GGR, Reginster J-Y, Alokail MS, Chandran M. Osteoporosis in men – east and west: Can the twain meet? A perspective from Asia. Osteoporos Sarcopenia. 2024.
• Chua JL, Mougammadou Z, Lim RBT, Tung JYM, Sng GGR. In the shoes of junior doctors: a qualitative exploration of job performance using the job-demands resources model. Front Psychol. 2024
• Kee XLJ*, Sng GGR*, Lim DYZ, Tung JYM, Abdullah HR, Chowdury AR. Use of a large language model with instruction-tuning for reliable clinical frailty scoring. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2024. *Joint First Authors
• Sng GGR, Tan SYT, Chew EJC, Mantoo S, Chng CL. Aggressive Synchronous Papillary and Likely Follicular Thyroid Carcinomas in a Patient with Graves’ Disease. Journal of the ASEAN Federation of Endocrine Societies. 2024
• Sng GGR, Tung JYM, Chua JL. Measuring the job satisfaction of junior doctors in Singapore: validating the Satisfaction of Employees in Health Care tool. Singapore Med J. 2023
• Tung JYM, Lim DYZ, Sng GGR. Potential safety concerns in use of the artificial intelligence chatbot 'ChatGPT' for perioperative patient communication. BJU Int. 2023
• Sng GGR, Khoo YL, Yeo KK, et al. Comparison of existing methods of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol estimation in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Ann Acad Med Singap. 2023
• Sng GGR, Tung JYM, Lim DYZ, Bee YM. Potential and pitfalls of ChatGPT and Natural-language Artificial Intelligence Models for Diabetes Education. Diabetes Care. 2023
• Sng G, Tung J, Yeo SP et al. Complex and novel determinants of empathy change in medical students. Korean J Med Educ 2016
  
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