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Clinical Associate Professor Tan Lay Kok is a senior consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist with a special interest in obstetric medicine and high-risk pregnancy. He did his fellowship with Professor Michael de Swiet at Queen Charlotte’s Hospital. He has developed several multidisciplinary obstetric services caring for mothers with diabetes, cardiac, rheumatological, hematological, kidney and other medical conditions at the Singapore General Hospital. He has peer reviewed publications and book chapters in these areas, and organizes regular courses and meetings in maternal medicine and peripartum management. He has also been actively involved, either as chair or committee member, in holding international congresses in O&G for the Obstetrical Society of Singapore, including the 2018 RCOG World Congress held in Singapore. He is also a regular invited speaker at both local and regional meetings.
Since 2021, he has been the head of the Maternal Fetal Medicine department at the KK Women’s and Children’s hospital (KK Hospital) which oversees almost 12 thousand deliveries annually. He has since further developed Maternal Medicine in KK Hospital and also established a Maternal Medicine Network for the health cluster SingHealth. He is also actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and is also the Vice Chair of Education for the Singhealth OBGYN Academic Clinical Programme. He has been President of the College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists since 2021, and oversaw the publication of guidelines on the management of COVID-19 in pregnancy and COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy. |