Dr Lim Weiying

About

​Dr Lim Weiying graduated from National University of Singapore in 2007 and subsequently obtained her M.Med (Internal Medicine) and MRCP (UK) in 2011. She is currently a Senior Consultant in the Department of Endocrinology at Singapore General Hospital. She runs the Joint Clinic for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (JCGD) clinic and has an interest in Obstetrics Medicine/ Endocrinology conditions in pregnancy. 

Education and Training

• Advanced Specialist Training in Endocrinology (02/05/2012-05/11/2015)
  
• MRCP (UK) (2011)
  
• MMED (Int Med) (2011)
  
• MBBS (2007)
  

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

• Clinical Tutor, May 2012 - Current, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS
• Singhealth Diabetes Action Taskforce Workgroup 3- Model of Care: Gestational Diabetes [Team Member 26/9/2016- 02/06/2018]
  
  

Awards

• Singhealth HMDP Award 2017
• Singapore Health Quality Service Awards- Silver Award 2017
• SGH Service with a Heart Award 2015

Research Trials

Research:

1) Real-time continuous glucose monitoring in women with gestational diabetes mellitus

2) Prediction of weight gain during anti-thyroid drug treatment of Graves’ disease

3) Changes in body composition by dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) during anti-thyroid treatment of Graves’ disease

4) Neonatal thyroid function in infants born to mothers with thyroid disease over 10 years in a tertiary institution in Singapore

5) Comparison of ATA/BTA guidelines in prediction of malignancy for thyroid nodules biopsied in a tertiary centre over 5 years

6) Prevalence of hypoglycaemia in a tertiary institution and associated risk factors

7) Maternal and foetal/ neonatal outcomes of pregnancies complicated by diabetes from 1999 to 2009

Publications

1) Thyroid Carcinoma with pituitary metastases: 2 case reports and literature review

Lim Weiying, Dawn Lim Shao Ting, Chng Chiaw Ling, Adoree Lim Yiying

Case Reports in Endocrinology, Dec 2015; Vol. 2015. 252157.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/252157

2) Physiological and Metabolic Changes During the Transition from Hyperthyroidism to Euthyroidism in Graves’ Disease

Chng Chiaw Ling, Adoree Lim Yiying, Tan Hong Chang, Jean-Paul Kovalik, Tham Kwang Wei, Bee Yong Mong, Lim Weiying, Sanchalika Acharyya, Lai Oi Fah, Chong Mary Foong-Fong, Yen Paul Michael 

Thyroid. 7 Sep 2016. Vol. 26, No. 10: 1422-1430. 27465032. 

doi: 10.1089/thy.2015.0602

3) Comparing diabetes mellitus care in a major city in China to a major city in South East Asia

Lim Weiying, Fong Yuke Tian, Chua Yeow Leng, Tay Boon Keng, Goh Su-Yen

Diabetes Management (2016) 6(6), 144-147. ISSN 1758-1907

4) The diagnostic performance of the new ATA, BTA and TIRADS sonographic patterns on malignancy rate in histologically proven thyroid nodules 

Zhu Ling, Lim Weiying, Adoree Lim Yiying, Chng Chiaw Ling

Singapore Medical Journal (In Press)