Bio
Dr Aw Tar Choon is a Senior Consultant with the Department of Laboratory Medicine at Changi General Hospital (CGH) since 2006. He is also the director of Chemical Pathology and a clinical senior lecturer in Medicine at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.
Dr Aw received his medical degree from the University of Malaya, Medical School in 1976. Trained in internal medicine at Medical Unit 1, SGH and King’s College Hospital Medical School, London, UK he has specialist certifications in Internal Medicine from NUS (M.Med Internal Medicine) and the Royal College of Physicians UK (MRCP UK).
Thereafter, Dr Aw trained in chemical pathology at the Department of Pathology Laboratory Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA from 1981 to 1984. He also has specialist certification in chemical pathology from the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (FRCPA Chemical Pathology). Dr Aw was a faculty staff member of the NUS Medical School from 1980 to 2006, where he attained the rank of full professor (pathology) and served as its vice-dean from 1994 to 2002.
He was the chief of Laboratory Medicine at NUH from 1988 to 2002, and Medical Director of Alexandra Hospital from 1995 to 2000. From 2006 to 2010 he was a part time faculty staff at Monash Medical School - Professor (Chemical Pathology, Malaysia campus) and Honorary Professor (Medicine, Australia campus).
Education
Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, London
Royal College of Physicians, UK, United Kingdom
Master of Public Policy
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Fellow, Royal Coll of Pathologists
Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia, Australia
Master of Medicine (Internal Medicine)
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
University of Malaya, Malaysia
NUS Appointment(s)
Clinical Senior Lecturer (Medicine)
NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine,
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