Dr Tan Poh Lin

Dr Tan is a pediatrician at the University Children’s Medical Institute, National University Hospital, National University Health System, Singapore; and an assistant professor with the clinical faculty scheme of the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore. Dr Tan obtained her Master in Medicine (Paediatrics) (Singapore) in 1996, and completed her advanced specialist training in general pediatrics with special interests in pediatric hematology, oncology and blood/ marrow transplantation in 2000. She obtained the Singapore Ministry of Health Scholarships to undergo sub-specialty training in pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplantation at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA in 2002 and at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, USA in 2007. Presently, she is actively involved in the management of children and adolescents with cancers and blood disorders; with special focus on these and other patients who suffer from primary immunodeficiency and neuro-metabolic disorders requiring hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

Specialty Interests

• Paediatric Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant and Cellular Therapy
• Paediatric Transplant Survivorship
• Pharmacogenetics in Transplant
• Paediatric Haematology/Oncology

Awards and Honours

• International Union against Cancer (UICC) Technology Transfer Fellowship, 2001
• Singapore Ministry of Health Scholarship Award, 2002 - 2003
• Singapore Ministry of Health Scholarship Award, 2007

Professional Memberships

• Member, Singapore Paediatric Society, 1998 - present day
• Member, Singapore Bone Marrow Donor Programme (BMDP), 1998 - present day
• Member, Paediatric Oncology Group (Singapore) , 1999 - present day
• Chair, VIVA - St Jude BMT Consortium, 2010 - present day

 Selected Publications

1. Verneris MR, Eapen M, Duerst R, Carpenter PA, Burke MJ, Afanasyev BV, Cowan MJ, He W, Krance R, Li CK, Tan PL, Wagner JE, Davies SM. Reduced intensity conditioning regimens for allogeneic transplantation in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2010 Sep; 16(9):1237-44.
2. Lin DY, Villegas MS, Tan PL, Wang S, Shek LP. Severe Kikuchi's disease responsive to immune modulation. Singapore Med J. 2010 Jan; 51(1):e18-21.
3. Yoshimi A, Suzuki R, Atsuta Y, Iida M, Lu DP, Tong W, Ghavamzadeh A, Alimoghaddam K, Lie AK, Liang R, Chan LL, Haipeng L, Tan PL, Hwang WY, Chiou TJ, Chen PM, Van Binh T, Minh NN, Min CK, Hwang TJ, Kodera Y. Hematopoietic SCT activity in Asia: a report from the Asia-Pacific Blood and Marrow Transplantation Group. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2010 Dec; 45(12):1682-91. Epub 2010 Mar 1.
4. Pek JH, Chan YH, Yeoh AE, Quah TC, Tan PL, Aung L. Health-related quality of life in children with cancer undergoing treatment: a first look at the Singapore experience. Ann Acad Med Singapore. 2010 Jan; 39(1):43-8
5. Aung L, Chan YH, Yeoh EJ, Tan PL, Quah TC. Retinoblastoma: a recent experience at the National University Hospital, Singapore. Ann Acad Med Singapore. 2009 Aug; 38(8):693-8.
6. Kham SKY, Soh CK, Liu TC, Chan YH, Ariffin H, Tan PL, Yeoh AEJ. Thiopurine S-methyltransferase activity in 3 major Asian populations: - a population-based study in Singapore. European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology 2008; 64(4):373-9.
7. Tan PL, Wagner JE, Auerbach AD, Defor TE, Slungaard A, Macmillan ML Successful engraftment without radiation after fludarabine-based regimen in Fanconi anemia patients undergoing genotypically identical donor hematopoietic cell transplantation. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2006 May 1; 46(5):630-6.
8. Tan PL, Verneris MR, Charnas LR, Reck SJ, van Burik JA, Blazar BR. Outcome of CNS and pulmonary enteroviral infections after hematopoietic cell transplantation. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2005 Jul; 45(1):74-5.
9. Tan PL, Shek PC, Lim LC, How GF, Tan P, Yeoh AE, Quah TC. Umibilical cord blood stem cell from unrelated donors is a feasible alternate stem cell source for transplant in patients with genetic diseases. Ann Acad Med Singapore. 2004 Sep; 33(5 Suppl):S82-3.
10. PHC Tan, WYK Hwang, YT Goh, PL Tan, LP Koh, CH Tan, TC Quah. Unrelated Peripheral Blood and Cord Blood Hematopoietic Stem Cell transplants for Thalassaemia Major. Am J Hematol. 2004 Apr; 75(4):209-12.