Dr Shum Koin Lon Aland

About

Dr Shum Koin Lon, Aland is a Senior Consultant in the Department of Internal Medicine, Singapore General Hospital (SGH).

He graduated from National University of Malaysia (UKM) in 2009. He trained with SingHealth in Internal Medicine residency and Advanced Internal Medicine senior residency and joined the Department of Internal Medicine, Singapore General Hospital in 2016.

He completed his subspecialty training in perioperative medicine at the University College London Hospitals (UCLH), UK in 2019 and has keen interest in perioperative medicine.

Education and Training

• ​MRCP (UK) Specialty Certificate Examination (Acute Medicine), 2015

• MRCP (UK), 2015

• Doctor of Medicine (MD), National University of Malaysia (UKM) 2009

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

• Member, Institution Assessment and Standards Committee for Hospital Clinicians (IASC-HC) Hospital Clinician Program 
  
• ​Core Faculty, National Assessments Committee (NAC)-PGY1 Program
• Clinical Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School
• Clinical Tutor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS)
• Clinical Teacher Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technology University (NTU), Singapore
• Senior Consultant, Department of Internal Medicine, Singapore General Hospital (SGH)
• Physician faculty member, Advanced Internal Medicine Senior Residency Program, SingHealth, Singapore
• Member, Trauma Committee, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore

Publications

• Teo YQC, Nagadia RH, Shum KL. Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter -2 Inhibitors in Odontogenic Infections. International Journal of Surgery, 2023 
  
• Shaikh AMM, Juliana YL Kan, Orlanda QM Goh, Tan YY, Shalini SK, Shum KL, Lee GZ, Tharmmambal B, Zhu Ling, Chiara JM Chong, Amanda YR Lam, Kang ML. COVID-19 pandemic unmasking cardiovascular risk factors and non-communicable diseases among migrant workers: a cross-sectional study in Singapore. BMJ Open, 2022 
• Shum KL, Sam Searle, 2020, Frailty in surgical patients. Centre for Perioperative Medicine, UCL. Case Studies in Perioperative Medicine, UCL Press.
• Samuel K, Okello M, Shum KL. Perioperative Journal Watch, Royal College of Anaesthesia Bulletin, Sep 2019. Issue 117, 28
• Shum KL, Tan YY. Misled by the air: Pneumocephalus. Cureus, April 2018; 10(4): e2480
• Vidyarthi AR, Dhaliwal G, Monash B, Shum KL, Lee J, Zaas AK. Hot in the tropics. J Hosp Med, June 2017; 12(6): 462-6
• Low JG, Wijaya L, Li GK, Lim EY, Shum KL, Cheung YB, Ooi EE. The role of pre-existing cross reactive antibodies in determining the efficacy of vaccination in humans: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials, April 2015; 16 (147) 1-12