Dr Koh Shao Hui

About Doctor

Dr Koh Shao Hui completed his medical undergraduate studies at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore in 2009. He subsequently completed his training with the SingHealth Services Emergency Medicine Residency Programme in 2017.

Dr Koh joined the Department of Emergency Medicine, Sengkang General Hospital as an Associate Consultant in 2017.

He has a keen clinical interest in Trauma care and Clinical Acupuncture and is also actively engaged in Healthcare Informatics and ED Operations Improvement. 

He also practices as an Acupuncturist in SKH.

Languages Spoken

• English

Education and Training

• MBBS (S’pore)
• MMED (Emergency Medicine)
• Dip (Family Medicine)
• Dip (Acupuncture)
• DFD (CAW)
  

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

• Deputy Chief Medical Informatics Officer (Clinical Care)
  
• Adjunct Clinical Assistant professor (Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine)
• Adjunct Assistant Professor (Duke-NUS Emergency Medicine Academic Clinical Programme)
• Clinical Practice Facilitator and Content Expert (LKC School of Medicine)
• Physician Faculty (Singhealth EM Residency Programme)
• Co-Director, Trauma Committee, SKH
• Member, Blood Transfusion Committee, SKH
• Chair, SingHealth EM ACP Sepsis Workgroup
• SKH ED Medical Informatics Lead
• SKH ED GPFirst Lead
• Hospital Rep, National Abbreviations, Symbols and Acronyms (NASA) Workgroup
• Member, Society for Emergency Medicine, Singapore
• Ordinary Member, College of Family Physicians, Singapore
• Instructor, Advanced Trauma Life Support Course
• Instructor, Advanced Cardiac Life Support Course
• Instructor, Pre-hospital Cardiac Life Support Course
• Instructor, Emergency Airway Management Course
• Instructor, Collaborative Prescribing Programme
  

Awards

• SKH Crystal Owl Award (2023)
• COVID Resilience Medal (2023)
• 10 Year Long Service Award (2021)
• EMACP Excellence in Teaching Award (2018/2019), (2020/2021)
• HMDP Award (2018)
• Outstanding Performance for intermediate/in-training examination (2014, 2015)
• RiSE Outstanding Resident Award (2013)
  

Publications

• Koh, S. H., Tan, J. C. L. (2024). Death from caustic ingestion: A case report. Journal of Acute Disease, 13(2), 81–84. 
• Ong, A. G. J., Koh, S. H., Pek, J. H., & Venugopal, K. (2024) Ambulatory (P3) patients at the emergency department. Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare, 33. 
• Shao Hui Koh,  Kian Hua Barry Tan, Sashikumar Ganapathy. Epidemiology of paediatric poisoning that presents to a children’s emergency department in Singapore over a 5-yr period. Singapore Med J. 2018 May; 59(5): 247–250.
• Koh Shao Hui.  An unusual case of a pregnant lady with bilateral posterior elbow dislocations and distal radius fracture-dislocation following a fall from height.  Journal of Acute Disease. Feb 2015 
• Koh Shao Hui, R Ponampalam, Swee Han Lim, Dinesh Visva Gunasekeran.  Cutaneous Exposure to Cobra Venom: An Uncommon Presentation. Wilderness Environ Med. 11 Jun 2015 
• Koh Shao Hui, Fatimah Lateef. Is the patient Pregnant….or not? Journal of Acute disease.  20 Sept 2013