Care at NUH

Doctor Details

2024/01/25
Find a Doctor
Doctor Detail

Dr Tan Ze Lei

Photo of Dr Tan Ze Lei

Designations:

  • Consultant, Children's Emergency, Department of Paediatrics, Khoo Teck Puat - National University Children's Medical Institute, National University Hospital

Qualifications:

MBBS (Singapore), MMed (Paediatrics)

Specialties/Sub-specialties:

Paediatric Medicine

Clinical Disciplines/Programmes:

Paediatrics – Children’s Emergency

Special Interests:

Undergraduate education, postgraduate education, simulation, disaster response

Contact Us:

Biosketch

Dr Tan Ze Lei is a consultant of the Division of Children's Emergency (CE). Her area of clinical expertise is in emergency and urgent paediatric care, and paediatric primary care. Dr Tan manages patients both at the Children's Emergency and the Children's Urgent Care Clinic @ Bukit Panjang. 

Dr Tan is part of the core faculty of the NUH Postgraduate Year 1 (PGY1) programme where she serves as a supervisor and educator to PGY1s in NUH. She assists as faculty for the Graduate Diploma in Child and Adolescent Health (GDCAH), providing continued professional development of medical professionals in the delivery of care to children and adolescents in the community. Dr Tan is an active facilitator in acute care simulation for undergraduate and postgraduate learners, and serves as a Paediatrics Advanced Life Support (PALS) instructor. She shares her paediatrics expertise as an Assistant Commander of the MOH Disaster Site Medical Command (DSMC), a committee which augments MOH's pre-hospital medical response system in mass casualty situations.

Awards

  • 2023: Public Administration Medal (Silver)

Journals & Publications

  1. Ann Chuan En Loh, Phek Hui Jade Kua, Ze Lei Tan.  Erythema and induration of the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin site for diagnosing Kawasaki disease. Singapore Med J 2019; 60(2): 89-93. doi: https://doi.org/10.11622/smedj.2018084  [IF - 3.33]
  2. Tan, Mae Yue; Lee, Shuh Shing; Aw, Marion Margaret; Abd Aziz; Nasyitah Binte; Lim, Yih Lin; Foo, Suan Peen; Tan, Ze Lei; Sng, Andrew Anjian; Chee, Yu Han; Ng, Nicholas Beng Hui; Lin, Jeremy Bingyuan. Mindfulness and reflective practice pilot programme of Postgraduate Year 1 doctors: perceptions on impact and sustainability. Singapore Medical Journal ():10.4103/singaporemedj.SMJ-2021-419, November 30, 2023. doi: 10.4103/singaporemedj.smj-2021-419 [IF - 3.33]
  3. Tan ZL, Ng NBH, Ong JSM. Case report: Dichloroacetate-induced methaemoglobinaemia in a G6PD-deficient neonate. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2025; 72:e31408. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/pbc.31408 [IF - 3.2]

Professional Memberships

  • Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH, UK)
  • Singapore Medical Association (SMA)

2025/02/04
Last updated on
Best viewed with Chrome 79.0, Edge 112.0, Firefox 61.0, Safari 11
National University Health System
  • National University Hospital
  • Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
  • Alexandra Hospital
  • Jurong Community Hospital
  • National University Polyclinics
  • Jurong Medical Centre
  • National University Cancer Institute, Singapore
  • National University Heart Centre, Singapore
  • National University Centre for Oral Health, Singapore
  • NUHS Diagnostics
  • NUHS Pharmacy
  • Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
  • Faculty of Dentistry
  • Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health
Back to Top