Dr Velda Han is currently a Consultant in the Division of Paediatric Neurology at the Khoo Teck Puat – National University Children's Medical Institute, National University Hospital, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Department of Paediatrics, National University of Singapore.
She obtained her basic MBBS medical degree from the National University of Singapore. She achieved Master of Medicine in Paediatrics, and PhD in clinical neuroimmunology at the University of Sydney.
She has a special interest in Paediatric Neuroimmunology. She was the Petre fellow at Westmead Children's Hospital (Sydney Children's Hospital Network). She was part of the clinical neuroimmunology research group at the University of Sydney, which focuses on investigating the interactions between the immune system and the brain, through multi-omics investigations. During this time, she published several papers in such as Nature, Brain Behaviour Immunity and Translational Psychiatry. She was awarded the Exon-Mobil research scholarship and NUHS Clinician-Scientist Award to continue her research in this area in Singapore. Currently, she is also involved in international work groups investigating the treatment of infection-triggered encephalopathy syndrome.
In her clinic, she sees patients with general neurological conditions, for example, headaches, seizures, movement disorders. In particular, she has a special interest in helping children with neurodevelopmental (autism, ADHD, tics/Tourette syndrome) or neuropsychiatric conditions (obsessive compulsive disorder, anxiety, Paediatric acute neuropsychiatric syndrome etc).
