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Dr Chan Lai Peng

MBBS, FRCR, FAMS

Senior Consultant

Singapore General Hospital

Specialty: Diagnostic Radiology

Sub-specialties: Musculoskeletal Radiology, Ultrasound

Clinical Appointments

Senior Consultant Diagnostic Radiology Singapore General Hospital

Academic Appointments

Clinical Lecturer, National University of Singapore

Profile

Dr Chan Lai Peng is a Senior Consultant Radiologist with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology. She was the immediate past Head of Department for Diagnostic Radiology from 2016 to 2023.

She obtained her fellowship of the Royal College of Radiologists in 1997 and did fellowship training in musculoskeletal radiology in Vancouver General Hospital in 2001. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, a member of the Singapore Radiological Society, Asian Musculoskeletal Society and Medical Ultrasound Society. Dr Chan also holds a Clinical Lecturer appointment from the National University of Singapore.

Her subspecialty interest is in musculoskeletal imaging, especially imaging of sports injuries, multiple myeloma and musculoskeletal tumours. Her current research projects include MR imaging of multiple myeloma, gated 4D CT scanning of the wrist for detection of instabilities, and post marketing survey of Ultravist. She has won awards for the best free paper at the 7th Annual Scientific meeting of the Singapore Radiological Society and the First International Conference on Evidence-based Medicine. She has given lectures in both international and regional conferences.

Dr Chan’s current interests are in musculoskeletal radiology, ultrasound and medical informatics.

Education

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), National University of Singapore (1991)
Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists, United Kingdom (FRCR) (1997)
Clinical Fellow in Musculoskeletal Radiology, Vancouver General Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (2001 – 2002)
Fellow of the Academy of Medicine of Singapore (FAMS) (2003)

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Vice Chair, Organisational Transformation and Informatics, Radiological Sciences Academic Clinical Program, SingHealth-Duke NUS
Clinical Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School
Clinical Lecturer, Yong Loo Lin Medical School, National University of Singapore
Member, IT Steering Committee, Singapore General Hospital
Co-Chair, Enterprise Imaging Steering Committee, Singhealth.

Awards

"You Shine" Award, Singhealth, 2013
Singapore Radiological Society Trust Fund Research Grant 2006
SARS Courage Medal 2003
Best Free Paper, 1^st International Conference on Evidence-Based Medicine, 2003
Best Paper Award, 7^th Annual Scientific Meeting, Singapore Radiological Society, 1998

Research Interests

Publications

Jin Rong Tan, Elizabeth Hui Ting Cheong, Lai Peng Chan, Wei Ping Tham. Implementation of an Artificial Intelligence-Based Double Read System in Capturing Pulmonary Nodule Discrepancy in CT Studies, Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology, 2020.
Déjà vu or jamais vu? How the severe acute respiratory syndrome experience influenced a Singapore radiology department's response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic. LTE Cheng, LP Chan, BH Tan, RC Chen, KH Tay, ML Ling, BS Tan. American Journal of Roentgenology 214 (6), 1206-1210
Adapting to a new normal? 5 key operational principles for a radiology service facing the COVID-19 pandemic. RC Chen, TT Tan, LP Chan. European Radiology, (2020) 30:4964–4967
Helical CT imaging of clinically suspected appendicitis: correlation of CT and histological findings. SK Wong, LP Chan, A Yeo. Clin Radiol 57 (8), 741-5

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