Dr Joshua Aw Junjie

Dr Aw Junjie is a Family Medicine Consultant at Singapore General Hospital’s FMCC, with experience supporting various service and quality initiatives across SingHealth Community Hospitals. He has taken on roles such as Chief Data and Digital Officer, Chief Risk Officer and committee leads, where he contributed to improving patient safety, building ERM awareness, digital adoption and care coordination.

Clinically, he focuses on strengthening transitional and community care, with an interest in models that support early subacute care in the community and reduce unnecessary hospital stays. He is also committed to developing point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) capabilities within Family Medicine and supporting its safe, practical use in both inpatient and outpatient settings.

As an educator, Dr Aw is a Clinical Assistant Professor with Duke-NUS and actively teaches in undergraduate, residency and fellowship programmes. He is involved in clinical teaching, examinations, mentorship and curriculum activities with the College of Family Physicians Singapore.

His research interests include frailty, sarcopenia, behavioural medicine, stroke rehabilitation and POCUS as an adjuct to FM practice. He hopes to continue contributing to Family Medicine through patient-centred clinical practice, collaborative education, and community-based care development.

1. FM Quality Advocate FM ACP
2. CFPS FM CME assessors board
3. Academic Medicine Innovation Institute Subject Matter Expert for Innovation Grant

1. Community Care Excellence Awards (CCEA) Silver award for individual and team projects Interprofessional Collaboration in the form of a huddle among multi-disciplinary teams in fall prevention. AIC, Singapore 2024
2. Team Merit Award - Risk review on Singhealth Community Hospitals’ (SCH) Health Fund. Enterprise Risk Management Congress Singapore 2024
3. Appreciation certificate Contribution to education of MMED (FM) College Programme CFPS Singapore 2023
4. Silver award Singapore Health Quality Service Awards 2023 SingHealth 2023
5. FM Quality Advocate Award SingHealth Duke NUS FM ACP Quality Festival SCH Singapore 2023
6. SCH WeCARE Award – Pride of SCH SCH WeCARE Award SCH 2022
7. WOW! Award WOW! Award SCH 2021

1. Factors affecting Inter-professional collaboration (IPC) in a Community Hospital (CH) in Singapore using measurement by Collaborative Practice Assessment Tool (CPAT) JY Foo, GSM Quek, SSY Seah, CY Ong, J Aw, YX Loo Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice, 100768 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240545262500031X?via%3Dihub
2. Prevalence and factors associated with sarcopenia among older adults in a post-acute hospital in Singapore. Tan You Mei C, Seah Si Ying S, Yanshan DL, Koh SV, Karthikeyan G, et al. (2024) PLOS ONE 19(1): e0291702. https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291702
3. Acute hospital-community hospital care bundle for elderly orthopedic surgery patients: A propensity score-matched economic analysis. Ivan En-Howe Tan, Aik Yong Chok, Yun Zhao, Yonghui Chen, Chee Hoe Koo, Junjie Aw, Mave Hean Teng Soh, Chek Hun Foo, Kwok Ann Ang, Emile John Kwong Wei Tan, Andrew Hwee Chye Tan, Marianne Kit Har Au World J Orthop. 2023 Apr 18; 14(4): 231–239. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10122775/
4. Factors influencing medication adherence in multi-ethnic Asian patients with chronic diseases in Singapore: A qualitative study. Sungwon Yoon, Yu Heng Kwan, Wei Liang Yap, Zhui Ying Lim, Jiekie Phang, Yu Xian Loo, Junjie Aw, Lian Leng Low Front Pharmacol. 2023; 14: 1124297. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/pharmacology/articles/10.3389/fphar.2023.1124297/full
5. COVID-19-Related Vaccine Hesitancy among Community Hospitals’ Healthcare Workers in Singapore J Aw, S Sharna, S Benjamin, L Low, Lian Vaccines 2022, 10(4), 537; https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/10/4/537
6. Lesson of the month: Recurrent falls and hypoglycaemia in an older woman Alvin Sq Ong , Lin Wang, Junjie Aw Clin Med (Lond) 2022 Jan;22(1):90-91. doi: 10.7861/clinmed.2021-0671
7. COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy—A Scoping Review of Literature in High-Income Countries J Aw, S Benjamin, S Seah, LL Low MDPI Vaccines 9(8), 900 https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/9/8/900
8. The non-contact handheld cutaneous infra-red thermometer for fever screening during the COVID-19 global emergency J Aw J Hosp Infect 2020 Apr;104(4): 451 https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S019567012030058X
9. A Study on Prevalence and Associations of non-Robust older adults aged 65 years and older attending a general practitioner clinic in ang mo Kio (SPARK) J Aw, ES Lee, G Chiang, BY Tan Singapore Med J 2021; 62(6): 311-314 doi:  https://www.smj.org.sg/article/study-prevalence-and-associations-non-robustness-older-adults-aged-65-years-and-above