Dr Lydia Su Yin Wong is a Consultant in Paediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology at the Khoo Teck Puat – National University Children's Medical Institute, National University Hospital (NUH), and an Assistant Professor, Department of Paediatrics at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS). She obtained her MBBS from NUS in 2008, completed her MRCPCH (UK) in 2012, and earned her Masters of Medicine (Paediatrics) in 2014. She was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, in 2018.
Dr. Wong specializes in food allergy and food oral immunotherapy (OIT), with a strong research focus on advancing treatments for food allergies. She was the site principal investigator (Singapore) for an international randomised controlled trial of egg oral immunotherapy (Probiotic Egg Allergen Oral Immunotherapy (PEAT) study), and has led pilot work on development of prawn oral immunotherapy.
Her work has been published in high-impact journals, and she has received accolades such as the KTP-NUCMI Junior Researcher with the Highest Grant Amount Award in 2019.
Dr. Wong was awarded the Learning Development Award for further training as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at NYU Langone Health in 2024 where she trained with Professor Anna Nowak-Wegryzn on food allergy with a focus on multi-food oral immunotherapy, FPIES (food protein-induced enterocolitis) and OIT in preschoolers. She is actively involved in teaching in NUH and internationally as a committee member of the WAO World Allergy Training School (WATS) committee.
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