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Dr Indumathi Venkatachalam

​MBBS (Sydney), MRCP (UK), FRACP, MPH (Hopkins)

Senior Consultant, Medical Board

Singapore General Hospital Singapore General Hospital

Specialty: Infectious Diseases

Clinical Appointments

Senior Consultant, Medical Board

About

Dr Indumathi Venkatachalam graduated from the University of Sydney with MBBS, followed by specialist training in Infectious Diseases, obtaining Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. 

Her other qualifications include Master of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She also holds a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Gorgas Memorial Institute (course conducted in collaborative partnership between the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Alexander von Humboldt Tropical Medicine Institute from the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia).

Education and Training

  • ​DTM&H (Gorgas) 
  • MPH (Hopkins) 
  • FRACP (Infectious Diseases) 
  • MRCP (UK) 
  • MBBS University of Sydney

Publications

  • Venkatachalam I, Hsu LY, Fisher D, Lye D, Ling ML, Tambyah P, Perl T. Multidrug resistant gram-negative bloodstream infections among residents in long-term care facilities. Infect Control and Hosp Epidemiol 2014; 35(5): 519-526.
  • Venkatachalam I, Teo J, Balm M, Fisher D, Jureen R and Lin R. Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-producing enterobacteria in a hospital, Singapore. Letter. Emerg Infect Dis 2012; 18(8): http://dx.DOI: 10.3201/eid1808.110893