Dr Amanda Chan Chee Yun

Designations:

Senior Consultant, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital
Senior Consultant, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
Assistant Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore

Qualifications:

MBBS (Hong Kong), MRCP (UK), FRCP (Edin), MMed (Sleep Medicine) (Sydney)

Specialties/Sub-specialties:

Neurology

Clinical Disciplines/Programmes:

Medicine

Special Interests:

Small fiber neuropathies, autonomic disorders, neurological sleep disorders

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Biosketch

Dr Chan is Senior Consultant at NUH, and section lead of the autonomic and small fiber neuropathy service. Dr Amanda Chan graduated from the University of Hong Kong and completed her training in Neurology and Internal Medicine in Hong Kong. She also holds a Master of Medicine in Sleep Medicine from the University of Sydney. Her areas of clinical and research interest include small fiber neuropathy and autonomic disorders, immunology, and sleep medicine.

Awards

NUS Fortitude Award (2020)
National Medical Research Council Research Training Fellowship (November, 2019)
National Medical Research Council - New Investigator Grant (November, 2018)
NUHS Seed Fund (May, 2019)
NUHS Centre Grant Seed Fund (May, 2019)

Journals & Publications

Goh Y, Beh DL, Makmur A, Somani J, Chan AC. Pearls and Oy-sters: Facial nerve palsy as a neurological manifestation of Covid-19 infection. Neurology. 2020 May 20.
Chan AC, Wilder-Smith EP. Small fiber neuropathy: Getting bigger!. Muscle & nerve. 2016 May;53(5):671-82.
Chan ACY, Wilder-Smith EP. Clinical Reasoning: Burning Hands and Feet. Neurology. 2015 May 12;84(19):e146-52. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000001559.
Chan ACY, Ng SH. Tumefactive Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis Complicating Human Swine Influenza (H1N1). Hong Kong Med J 2014;20:447–50 DOI: 10.12809/hkmj134049
Chan ACY, Sharma VK (2014) Noninvasive Ventilation in Acute Ischemic Stroke. Brain Disord Ther 3: e114. DOI:10.4172/2168-975X.1000e114
Yuki N, Chan AC, Wong AH, Inoue T, Yokai M, Kurihara T, Devaux JJ, Wilder-Smith E. Acute painful autoimmune neuropathy: A variant of Guillain-Barré syndrome. Muscle & nerve. 2018 Feb;57(2):320-4.
Tsivgoulis G, Palaiodimou L, Katsanos AH, Caso V, Köhrmann M, Molina C, Cordonnier C, Fischer U, Kelly P, Sharma VK, Chan AC. et al. Neurological manifestations and implications of COVID-19 pandemic. Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders. 2020 Jun;13:1756286420932036.
Bharatendu C, Ong JJ, Goh Y, Tan BY, Chan AC, Tang JZ, Leow AS, Chin A, Sooi KW, Tan YL, Hong CS. Powered Air Purifying Respirator (PAPR) restores the N95 face mask induced cerebral hemodynamic alterations among Healthcare Workers during COVID-19 Outbreak PPE related cerebral hemodynamic changes. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 2020 Aug 3:117078.
Bandla A, Tan S, Kumarakulasinghe NB, Huang Y, Ang S, Magarajah G, Hairom Z, Lim JS, Wong A, Chan G, Ngoi N, Ang E, Lee YM, Chan A, Lee SC, Thakor N, Wilder-Smith E, Sundar R. Safety and tolerability of cryocompression as a method of enhanced limb hypothermia to reduce taxane-induced peripheral neuropathy. Supportive Care in Cancer. 2019 Dec 6:1-9.
Chan ACY, Yuki N, Wilder-Smith EP. Small Fiber Neuropathy: Classification and Search for Autoimmunity Against Peripheral Nerve Components. Poster presentation at the 69th Annual American Academy of Neurology Meeting, in Boston, MA, USA, from
Chan ACY. Predictors and Causes of Hospital Readmissions After Acute Ischemic Stroke: Local Data from a Hospital-based Registry. Poster presentation at the XXI World Congress of Neurology (WCN2013), in Vienna, Austria from September 21 – 26, 2013.

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