Profile
Dr Saripalli Kundan Reddy is an Associate Consultant with the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine in Changi General Hospital (CGH). He graduated from NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in 2016 and obtained his Master of Medicine in Internal Medicine and Membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 2020. He subsequently completed his specialist training in Respiratory Medicine with SingHealth in 2024 and is currently pursuing specialist accreditation in Intensive Care Medicine.
Dr Saripalli has won numerous awards during his training and was also the Chief Resident from 2021 to 2022. In addition to attending the Singapore Chief Residency Programme, he pursued an attachment at Duke University, USA focusing on medical education, residency and patient care.
With a passion for medical education, Dr Saripalli is regularly involved in both bedside and didactic teaching for students and trainees and has organised numerous workshops and courses. In recognition of his commitment to teaching, he has been awarded the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence 2023 and the SingHealth Medicine Academic Clinical Programme (ACP) Education Award 2024.
In addition to clinical work, Dr Saripalli has a keen interest in health informatics and population health and is also actively involved in projects aimed at improving health literacy.
Education
- MRCP Specialist Certificate (Respiratory Medicine), 2023
- MRCP(UK), 2020
- MMed (Internal Medicine), Singapore, 2020
- MBBS, Singapore, 2016
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Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships
- Member, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, 2024 – Present
- Member, European Respiratory Society, 2024 – Present
- Advanced Trauma Life Support Instructor, American College of Surgeons 2019 – Present
- Co-chair, Senior Resident’s Committee, Singapore General Hospital, 2022 – 2023
- Committee Member, Centre for Performance Improvement, SingHealth, 2021 – 2023
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Awards
- Junior Educator Award, SingHealth Medicine ACP Education Awards, 2024
- Outstanding Resident Award, Residency in SingHealth Excels (RiSE) Awards, 2024
- Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence, SingHealth Excellence Awards 2023
- SingHealth Top 5 Chief Residents, Residency in SingHealth Excels (RiSE) Awards, 2023
- Outstanding Resident Award, Residency in SingHealth Excels (RiSE) Awards, 2021
- 1st Prize for Poster Presentation, SingHealth Medicine ACP Research Week, 2017
- Best House Officer Award, SingHealth Residency, 2017
- Feng Pao Hsii Rheumatology Prize, Chapter of Rheumatologists, College of Physicians, Academy of Medicine, Singapore, 2014
- College of Family Physicians Singapore Family Medicine Prize, College of Family Physicians Singapore, 2013
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Research Interests
- Respiratory medicine / Pulmonology
- Health informatics including big data and learning machine models
- Medical education
- Population health
- Meta-analysis
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Publications
- Treatable traits in an Asian difficult asthma cohort, Saripalli, K. R., Sieow, N., Chan, Y. H., Chan, W., Choo, X. N., Yii, A., & Tay, T. R, Clinical and experimental allergy: journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology, doi:10.1111/cea.14488
- Pulmonary sclerosing pneumocytoma - approaching a solitary pulmonary nodule and the limitations of risk prediction models, Saripalli KR, Wang MQW, Chow CY, Chew SY. BMJ Case Rep.2023;16(11):e257208
- Not the usual suspect, but not above suspicion (Case report on Lipoid Pneumonia), Saripalli KR, Tan CS, Yii A. Respir Med Case Rep. 2021;33:101389.
- Bone mineral density and trabecular bone score in elderly type 2 diabetes Southeast Asian patients with severe osteoporotic hip fractures, Gani, L. U., Saripalli, K. R., Fernandes, K., Leong, S. F., Tsai, K. T., Tan, P. T., Chong, L. R., & King, T. F. J, PloS one. 2020;15(11):e0241616
- High prevalence of missed opportunities for secondary fracture prevention in a regional general hospital setting in Singapore, Gani, L., Reddy, S. K., Alsuwaigh, R., Khoo, J., & King, T. F. J, Archives of osteoporosis, 2017;12(1):60
- Tophaceous gouty arthropathy of the lumbar spine, Saripalli K, Baskar S. Clin Med (Lond). 2014;14(6):683-684
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