Dr Kristy is a dually accredited Paediatric Intensivist with special interest in Neurocritical Care, working in National University Hospital, Singapore.
After completing her paediatric critical care training in Singapore, she worked in Boston Children's Hospital as an international fellow subspecialising in Neurocritical Care. She is also a passionate medical educator who enjoys teaching clinical reasoning and skills to different healthcare professionals, mentoring and coaching students and colleagues, designing and implementing new medical education curriculum.
Her research interests are focused on clinical (related to her primary clinical work with critically ill patients), education (with a MHPE under her belt, she has begun being more involved in medical and higher education research work), and continuous quality improvement in both healthcare and education efforts.
Kristy's leadership qualities have been exemplified in the many roles she has undertaken over the years in administrative work within National University Hospital and National University of Singapore. She is currently the Head of the Division of Paediatric Critical Care, Department of Paediatrics, KTP-NUCMI. In addition, she is the Assistant Dean at the Office of Student Affairs, NUS, and a core faculty member of the Office for Students at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.
She also leads in the implementation of the Graduate Diploma of Child and Adolescent Health as associate programme director. Kristy is also actively engaged with her professional fraternity beyond her daily work - she has been part of the executive committee of College of Paediatrics & Child Health, Singapore (Academy of Medicine, Singapore) and Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Singapore. She is also an active member of many international professional organisations (RCPCH in the UK, SCCM and NCS in the US).
