Email tan.seow.yen@singhealth.com.sg 

Seow Yen is an infectious disease physician who enjoys working in infection prevention & control and has a keen interest in teaching and education of health professionals and students. She enjoys talking to people and loves reading a nice novel during her free time.

• NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (Adjunct)
• Duke-NUS Medical School
• NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
• Department of Infectious Diseases, Changi General Hospital (Primary)
• Infectious Disease Research and Training Office, National Centre for Infectious Diseases

• Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Nosocomial Infections
• Hospital Infection Prevention and Control

• Clinical Medicine
• Infectious Diseases
• Field Epidemiology

• Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery, NUS, 2008
• Member, Royal College of Physicians, United Kingdom, 2012
• Master of Medicine (Internal Medicine), NUS, 2013
• Fellow, Academy of Medicine Singapore, Chapter of Infectious Disease Physicians (2017)

• SingHealth Excellence Awards 2022 – Distinguished Young Leader Award
• Public Administration Medal (Bronze) (COVID-19), 2022

• Consultant, Infectious Diseases, Changi General Hospital (2019 till present)
• Associate Consultant, Infectious Diseases, Changi General Hospital (2017 -2019)
• Senior Resident, Infectious Diseases, SingHealth (2013 – 2016)
• Medical Officer Trainee, Internal Medicine (2009 – 2012)
• House Officer (2008 – 2009)

• Head, Department of Infection Prevention and Control, Changi General Hospital
• Head, Training & Education, National Centre for Infectious Diseases

• Tan SY, Tey HL, Lim ETH, Toh ST, Chan YH, Tan PT, Lee SA, Tan CX, Koh GCH, Tan TY, Siau C. The accuracy of healthcare worker versus self collected (2-in-1) Oropharyngeal and Bilateral Mid-Turbinate (OPMT) swabs and saliva samples for SARS-CoV-2. PLoS One. 2020 Dec 16;15(12):e0244417. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0244417. PMID: 33326503; PMCID: PMC7744114.
• Tan SY, Chien JMF, Li J, Teo EK, Tee A. The COVID-19 cohort ward experience: All hands on deck. Clin Infect Pract. 2020 Oct;7:100047. doi: 10.1016/j.clinpr.2020.100047. Epub 2020 Oct 14. PMID: 33073233; PMCID: PMC7553862.
• Tan SY, How CH, Poon BH, Tan TY, Siau C. Rostered Routine Testing – A Necessary Evil? Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2021-11-03 | Journal article DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofab549
• Kalil AC, Patterson TF, Mehta AK, Tomashek KM, Wolfe CR, Ghazaryan V, Marconi VC, Ruiz-Palacios GM, Hsieh L, Kline S, Tapson V, Iovine NM, Jain MK, Sweeney DA, El Sahly HM, Branche AR, Regalado Pineda J, Lye DC, Sandkovsky U, Luetkemeyer AF, Cohen SH, Finberg RW, Jackson PEH, Taiwo B, Paules CI, Arguinchona H, Erdmann N, Ahuja N, Frank M, Oh MD, Kim ES, Tan SY, Mularski RA, Nielsen H, Ponce PO, Taylor BS, Larson L, Rouphael NG, Saklawi Y, Cantos VD, Ko ER, Engemann JJ, Amin AN, Watanabe M, Billings J, Elie MC, Davey RT, Burgess TH, Ferreira J, Green M, Makowski M, Cardoso A, de Bono S, Bonnett T, Proschan M, Deye GA, Dempsey W, Nayak SU, Dodd LE, Beigel JH; ACTT-2 Study Group Members. Baricitinib plus Remdesivir for Hospitalized Adults with Covid-19. N Engl J Med. 2021 Mar 4;384(9):795-807. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2031994. Epub 2020 Dec 11. PMID: 33306283; PMCID: PMC7745180.
• Young BE, Ong SWX, Kalimuddin S, Low JG, Tan SY, Loh J, Ng OT, Marimuthu K, Ang LW, Mak TM, Lau SK, Anderson DE, Chan KS, Tan TY, Ng TY, Cui L, Said Z, Kurupatham L, Chen MI, Chan M, Vasoo S, Wang LF, Tan BH, Lin RTP, Lee VJM, Leo YS, Lye DC; Singapore 2019 Novel Coronavirus Outbreak Research Team. Epidemiologic Features and Clinical Course of Patients Infected With SARS-CoV-2 in Singapore. JAMA. 2020 Apr 21;323(15):1488-1494. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.3204. Erratum in: JAMA. 2020 Apr 21;323(15):1510. PMID: 32125362; PMCID: PMC7054855.