You are invited to the next CCS+D Research Masterclass Webinar for clinician-researchers. Join us to hear A/Prof Andrea Kwa & A/Prof Ang Shin Yuh share on their research and how allied health professionals and nurses can get involved in meaningful research that translates to improved processes and better patient outcomes.
CCS+D Research Masterclass Webinar: Research Opportunities for Allied Health & Nursing
Date: Thursday, 11 January 2024
Time: 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Speakers: A/Prof Ang Shin Yuh, Director of Nursing, NDCS & Deputy Director of Nursing, SingHealth
A/Prof Andrea Kwa, Deputy Director, Pharmacy (Research & Innovation), SGH
A/Prof Andrea Kwa is a Pharmacy Clinician Scientist at SGH, and a faculty of the Emerging Infectious Diseases program and the Office of Academic Medicine at Duke-NUS. Her research interests are in critical care medicine, infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance research, and she helms a laboratory studying antimicrobial pharmacodynamics/pharmacokinetics, molecular mechanisms of antibiotic resistance, and Phage Therapy for difficult-to-treat infections. She also performs health services research involving antimicrobial stewardships, risk factors and outcomes of resistant infections, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) management. To-date, she has authored more than 120 publications, and is a NMRC CSA awardee.
A/Prof Ang Shin Yuh is deputy director, Nursing research and innovation in SingHealth Group Nursing, leading numerous projects aimed at changing the way nurses deliver care. Her research focuses on well-being of the nursing workforce, the care environment and nursing sensitive indicators such as pressure injuries and falls. She has published more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals, co-authored a guide book on research for SingHealth nurses, and received numerous grants for her research. She is co-inventor on a patent and a provisional patent, and was a Singapore Biodesign 2021 Faculty Fellow. She was conferred the President’s Award for Nurses in 2019.
