| Head and Senior Consultant, Division of Haematology/Oncology & Bone Marrow and Cord Blood Transplantation, Department of Paediatrics, NUH
|
A/Prof Quah grew up in the island of Penang (a beautiful city off the western coast of West Malaysia) and came to another island (another beautiful island off the southern coast of West Malaysia) in 1971 to study medicine at the then University of Singapore. He was captivated and inspired by Professor Wong Hock Boon, the "walking encyclopedia" and "the smartest man I've ever known personally" whose motto is "if you want to do paediatrics, you've got to live paediatrics, eat paediatrics, sleep paediatrics". He was also inspired by the children he got to know when he was doing his housemanship (internship) in 1976 in the University Department of Paediatrics (then at the Mistri Wing in the Singapore General Hospital). Then and there, he decided to spend the rest of his life looking after kids. After spending a very happy one year in the paediatric department in Alexandra Hospital under another wonderful mentor, Dr Tan Keng Wee, he went back to the University's Dept of Paediatrics, and has been there ever since (moving together with the department to the National University Hospital in 1986). He started to devote his life to paediatric haematology/oncology in 1983, and also in Australia and Jerusalem (under Prof Shimon Slavin, for marrow transplant, under whose guidance he did the first bone marrow transplant in Singapore). Despite the increasing demands of paediatric hematology/oncology practice, he has managed to find time to maintain his interest in general paediatrics. He's constantly delighted at the dizzying advances in paediatric haematology/oncology, but remembers that our mission is not only to heal, but also to care and to comfort the children and families under our care.
Education and FellowshipsMBBS (U S'pore 1976), MMed (Paediatrics, NUS 1980)
Specialty Interests- Paediatric Haematology-Oncology
|
