Dr Andrew Ho is an academic Emergency Physician practicing in Singapore General Hospital. His clinical interests are in resuscitation and pre-hospital emergency care. His research interests lie in resuscitation, health services and public health. He graduated from National University of Singapore with MBBS in 2013, MMed in 2017 and MPH in Epidemiology & Quantitative Methods in 2021. After completing the 5-year SingHealth Emergency Medicine Residency Programme, and the year-long Singapore Chief Residency Programme at the MOHH Healthcare Leadership College, he attained specialist accreditation in 2021.
His research philosophy integrates methods from clinical epidemiology, population health sciences and implementation science to drive outcomes improvement in patients with sudden cardiac arrest and other emergency conditions, and population health.
Education Qualifications: MBBS, MMed (Emergency Medicine), MRCEM (UK), MPH
Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships:
- Vice-chair (Research), Asian Association for Emergency Medical Services
- Fellow, Royal Society of Public Health (UK)
- Fellow in Pre-hospital Emergency Care, Unit for Prehospital Emergency Care
- Executive Committee, Pre-hospital & Emergency Research Centre (PERC), Duke-NUS Medical School
- Member, National Targeted Temperature Management Workgroup
- Member, SGH Cardiovascular Research Peak Workgroup
- Specialty Editor for Emergency Medicine, Singapore Medical Journal
- Section Editor for Disaster and Emergency Medicine, Frontiers in Public Health
- Editorial board member, Journal of EMS Medicine
- Designated Workplace Doctor for compressed air works, Ministry of Manpower
Awards:
- Soo Kee Chee Publication Award, 2021
- Dean’s list for MPH, NUS School of Public Health, 2021 (Top 5% of MPH class)
- SingHealth Publish! Award 2019, 2020
- SingHealth RiSE Awards 2020 – Quality Improvement Project Award AY19/20
- National Outstanding Clinician Scientist Resident Award 2019
- SingHealth Top 5 Chief Resident 2019
- Outstanding Resident Award AY18/19, SingHealth Residency
- Khoo Clinical Scholar, Duke-NUS Medical School, 2018/2019
- Singapore General Hospital Service With A Heart Award 2019
- Best Oral Presentation Award, Society for Emergency Medicine Singapore Annual Scientific Meeting 2018
- SingHealth Duke-NUS Research Appreciation Awards “Bunsen Burner Award” 2018
- American Heart Association 2017 Paul Dudley White International Science Team Award
- Young Investigator Award, SGH 22nd Annual Scientific Meeting 2017
- Resuscitation Merit Award WY15/16, Singapore Armed Forces Medical Corp
- Meritorious Paper Award 2015 (Honorable Mention), Computers in Biology and Medicine, with citation in Ciaccio EJ. Honored papers 2015. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 75 (2016) 275–276
- Public Health Research Award 2013 (Singapore Medical Association)
- Two Bronze Medals, Singapore Science and Engineering Fair 2006 & 2007
- Best Communicator Award, Singapore Science and Engineering Fair 2006
Leadership positions / role in Education
- Clinical Physician Faculty Member, SingHealth Emergency Medicine Residency Programme
- Clinical Teacher, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, 2021-current