Dr Khoo Kay Leong

Senior Consultant, Division of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine, NUH

 

Dr Khoo Kay Leong completed his Basic and Advanced Speciality Training in Singapore. He also trained overseas, in Nijmegen and Marseille, for short periods of times. He is the Clinical Director of the Division of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine and also teaches at the Yong Yoo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. His professional affiliations include memberships of the American College of Chest Physicians and the Singapore Thoracic Society.

 

Education and Fellowships

MBBS (NUS), M.Med (Int Med)

 

Specialty Interests

• Lung cancer
• Pleural and airway diseases

• Pneumonia

 

Professional Memberships

• Honorary Secretary Singapore Thoracic Society (2011 - 2013)

• Fellow, American College of Chest Physicians

 

Selected Publications

1. Khoo KL, Ho KY. Endoscopic Mediastinal Staging of Lung Cancer. Respir Med. 2011 Apr;105:515-8.
2. Khoo KL, Ho KY , Khor CJ, Nilsson B, Lim TK. First endoscopic procedure for diagnosis and staging of mediastinal lymphadenopathy. World J Gastroenterol. 2009 Dec 28;15:6096-101.
3. Khoo KL, Ho KY, Nilsson B, Lim TK. EUS-guided FNA immediately after unrevealing transbronchial needle aspiration in the evaluation of mediastinal lymphadenopathy: A prospective study. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 2006;63:215-20.
4. Chong CF,Khoo KL, Lim TK, Chang AY, Lim HL, Lee CN, Wong PS. Comparison of Clinical with Pathological Nodal Staging from Systematic Mediastinal Lymph Node Dissection in early resectable Non-small Cell Lung Cancer. Singapore Med J 2007;48:620-4.
5. Khoo KL, Chua GS, Mukhopadhay A, Lim TK. Transbronchial needle aspiration: Initial experience in routine diagnostic bronchoscopy. Respir Med. 2003;97:1200-4