Dr Ng Chee Chin, David

Dr David Ng is a Family Physician by training and currently serves as the Chief Executive Director of SingHealth Polyclinics. Through that role, he spearheads SHP’s efforts in achieving her vision of advancing Primary Care in Singapore for Better Health with her Community. He oversees the polyclinics spread over the Eastern Region of Singapore in providing quality primary care, nurturing the next generation of healthcare professionals and innovating to transform care aspects of SHP. He is also Academic Chair, Family Medicine Academic Clinical Program, SingHealth-Duke NUS, which brings together Family Physicians across the whole SingHealth to advance Family Medicine and academic endeavours. 

• ​FCFP (2010)
• MMED (2007)
• MBBS (1999)

• ​Health Manpower Development Program, 2012

• National Polyclinic Attendance Study (Co-PI), 2014

• A multidisciplinary effort to increase COVID-19 vaccination among the older adults 
  AS Moosa, Y Wee, MH Jaw, QF Tan, WLD Tse, CY Loke, GLA Ee et al  
  Frontiers in Public Health 10, 904161, 2022 
• The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the health-seeking behaviour of an Asian population with acute respiratory infections in a densely populated community 
  HMJ Tan, MS Tan, ZY Chang, KT Tan, GLA Ee, CCD Ng, YKW Hwang et al 
  BMC Public Health 21 (1), 1-10, 2021 
• What are the measures taken to prevent COVID-19 infection among healthcare workers? A retrospective study in a cluster of primary care clinics in Singapore 
  PKS Moey, ATW Ang, AGL Ee, DCC Ng, MCW Ng, SSH Teo, EG Tay et al 
  BMJ open 11 (6), e049190, 2021
  
• A novel two-tiered developmental screening programme for Singaporean toddlers: A quality improvement report 
  CNNL Oo, YH Chan, DCC Ng, T Ostbye, PK Agarwal, SP Yeleswarapu 
  BMJ Paediatrics Open 5 (Suppl 1), 2021 
• Will the future BE POSITIVE? Early life experience as a signal to the developing brain pre school entry 
  A Rifkin-Graboi, KH Khng, P Cheung, Stella Tsotsi et al 
  Learning: Research and Practice 2019; Vol 5(2): 99-125 
• PILL: Caring for the mother-child dyad as a family physician. 
  Li Ping Marianne Tsang, Chee Chin David Ng, Yoke Hwee Chan, Helen Yu Chen 
  Singapore Medical Journal 2019; 60(10): 497-501
  
• Sickness certification in Singapore’s public primary healthcare system: A cross-sectional analysis 
  David Chee Chin Ng, Yii Jen Lew, Eileen Yi Ling Koh, Van Hai Nguyen, Hwee Bee Wong, Lyn James and Ngiap Chuan Tan 
  Proceedings of Singapore 2018; Vol 27 (3): 167-174 
• Tan AM, Muthusamy L, Ng CC, Phoon KY, Ow JH, Tan NC  
  Barriers to initiating insulin treatment in poorly controlled type II diabetics in the public sector primary health care setting. A Qualitative Study 
  Singapore Medical Journal 2011 Nov;52(11): 801 – 809 
• Yoong JK, Htoo MM, Jeyaseelan V, Ng DC 
  Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia with pulmonary arteriovenous malformations: a treatable cause of thromboembolic cerebral events. 
  Singapore Medical Journal 2004 July Vol 45 (7): 334-6