Clin Assoc Prof Jason Choo

MBBS (Australia), MRCP (UK), MMed (S'pore), FAMS, FRCP (Edin), FRCP (London), FASN

Senior Consultant

Singapore General Hospital

Specialty: Renal Medicine

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About

Education and Training

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Research Interests

Publications

Conditions Treated By This Doctor

Chronic Kidney Disease Glomerulonephritis Lupus Nephritis Renal Vasculitis

Clinical Interests

Chronic Kidney Disease, Glomerulonephritis, Lupus Nephritis, Renal Vasculitis

Clinical Appointments

Senior Consultant

Renal Medicine

Academic Appointments

Clinical Associate Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School

Senior Clinical Lecturer, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singapore

Visiting Lecturer, Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singapore

About

Dr Jason Choo is a Senior Consultant in the Department of Renal Medicine, Singapore General Hospital. He holds the academic titling of Clinical Associate Professor with Duke-NUS Medical School and is the past Program Director of the Renal Medicine, SingHealth Senior Residency Program. He is also the current Medical Director of the National Kidney Foundation Singapore and President of the Singapore Society of Nephrology.

He did a HMDP attachment at both Imperial College and King’s College, London to establish a Multidisciplinary Renal-Palliative Clinical Service. He currently leads the Low Clearance Clinic service and is also the Director of the Glomerular Diseases and Renal Vasculitis service in Singapore General Hospital.

Education and Training

FRCP (London)
FRCP (Edinburgh)
FASN
FAMS
M Med (S'pore)
MRCP (UK)
MBBS (Australia)

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Medical Director, National Kidney Foundation Singapore
President, Singapore Society of Nephrology
Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, London
Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh
Past Program Director, SingHealth Renal Medicine Senior Residency Program
Fellow, American Society of Nephrology
Fellow, Chapter of Renal Physician, Academy of Medicine, Singapore
Member, International Society of Nephrology
Visiting Nephrologist, Renal Health Dialysis Centre

Research Interests

Diabetic Kidney Disease
Chronic Kidney Disease
Glomerulonephritis and renal vasculitis
Lupus Nephritis
Medical Device

Publications

Changes in primary glomerulonephritis in Singapore over four decades
Woo KT, Chan CM, Lim C, Choo J, Chin YM, Teng WL, Loh AHL, Choong HL, Tan HK, Wong KS, Lee GSL, Lee EJC, Fook-Chong S, Tan PH, Foo M
Clin Nephrol. 2019 Jan 21. doi: 10.5414/CN109577
Infections in hospitalized lupus nephritis patients: characteristics, risk factors, and outcomes
Liu P, Tan HZ, Li H, Lim CC, Choo JCJ
Lupus. 2018 Jun;27(7):1150-1158. doi: 10.1177/0961203318768881. Epub 2018 Apr 9
New onset Diabetes Mellitus among Patients with Glomerular diseases
Lim CC, Wong MW, Koh HL, Chin YM, Mok IY, Choo JC
Intern Med J. 2018 May 9. doi: 10.1111/imj.13964
Long term renal outcomes in multi-ethnic Southeast Asians with Lupus Nephritis: a retrospective cohort study
Lim CC, Tan HZ, Hao Y, Chin YM, Woo KT, Chan CM, Choo JC
Intern Med J. 2018 May 9. doi: 10.1111/imj.13960
Regional Evidence and International Recommendations to Guide Lipid Management in Asian Patients with Type 2 Diabetes with Special Reference to Renal Dysfunction
Lau TW, Tan KE, Choo JC, Ng TG, S T, Chan JCN
J Diabetes. 2017 Sep 28. doi: 10.1111/1753-0407.12610
Analysis of T Cell Subsets in Adult Primary/Idiopathic Minimal Change Disease: A Pilot Study
Francisco Salcido-Ochoa, Susan Swee-Shan Hue, Doreen Haase, Jason Chon Jun Choo, Nurhashikin Yusof, Reiko Lixiang Li, John Carson Allen Jr., Jabed Iqbal, Alwin Hwai Liang Loh, and Olaf Rotzschke
International Journal of Nephrology, vol. 2017, Article ID 3095425, 13 pages, 2017. doi:10.1155/2017/3095425
IgA Nephritis: A comparison of Oxford and Traditional Histological scores and the correlation with Clinical Indices in a Southeast Asian population
KT Woo, Cynthia Lim, Marjorie Foo, H L Loh, Y M Chin, Jason Choo, P H Tan, Lina Choong, H K Tan, K S Wong, C M Chan
Int J Nephrol Ther.2017;3(1):014-026
Epidemiology and risk factors for cytomegalovirus infection in glomerular diseases treated with immunosuppressive therapy
Lim Cynthia C, Tung YT, Tan BH, Lee PH, Mok IY, Oon L, Chan KP, Choo JC
Nephrology (Carlton). 2017 May 8. doi: 10.1111/nep.13071
Comparison of topical Chlorhexidine and Mupirocin for the prevention of exit-site infection in incident peritoneal dialysis patients
Htay H, Johnson DW, Wu SY, Oei EL, Foo MW, Choo JC
Perit Dial Int. 2017 Feb 9. pii: pdi.2016.00257
30-year follow-up study of IgA nephritis in a Southeast Asian population: an evaluation of the Oxford histological classification
Woo KT, Lim CC, Foo MW, Loh HL, Jin AZ, Chin YM, Choo JC, Tan PH, Chow KY, Choong LH, Tan HK, Wong KS, Chan CM
Clin Nephrol. 2016 Nov;86 (2016)(11):270-278
Severe gastrointestinal cytomegalovirus disease in two patients with renal vasculitis after immunosuppression
Lee KG, Teo SH, Lim C, Loh A, Chidambaram V, Choo J
Clin Nephrol. 2016 Jul 22. [Epub ahead of print]
Severe infections in patients with lupus nephritis treated with immunosuppressants: a retrospective cohort study
Lim CC, Liu PY, Tan HZ, Lee P, Chin YM, Mok IY, Chan CM, Choo JC
Nephrology (Carlton). 2016 May 5. doi: 10.1111/nep.12809