Dr Koh Kim Hwee

Dr Koh Kim Hwee is currently the Director Regional Clinical Services (North East) in SingHealth Polyclinics (SHP). He has been in clinical practice since 2007 and has served in several academic leadership roles. He was the first deputy clinic director of Punggol Polyclinic when it was commissioned in Nov 2017. As the Clinic Director of Pasir Ris Polyclinic from 2019-2025, he lead the clinic through the Covid-19 pandemic and also commissioned the redeveloped polyclinic which opened in Oct 2024. When HSG was implemented in 2023, he was also the lead for right siting workstream of the SHP HSG implementation team. He is also the lead for SHP Epic migration workstream that is in charge of system and data requirements. As a medical educator, he has previously served as Clinical Core Faculty Member of SingHealth Family Medicine Residency Program and Cohort Program Director of the College of Family Physician Fellowship Program (FCFPS). Dr Koh is still actively involved in teaching and is currently Clinical Assistant Professor of Duke-NUS Medical School. He also serves as examiner for the Graduate Diploma in Family Medicine, MMed (Family Medicine) and FCFPS program. 

Dr Koh is currently also practicing as a Senior Consultant, Family Medicine Specialist in SingHealth Polyclinics. He was awarded the SingHealth HMDP Fellowship in 2019 to pursue the training of Management of Musculoskeletal Pain in Primary Care in United Kingdom. He is currently involved in multiple workgroups and committees at SingHealth cluster and MOH level. He also received the GCEO Outstanding Clinician Award in 2024 which provided recognition to his clinical care to his patients and contributions to the organisation as a clinician leader. 

• Graduate Diploma in Healthcare Management and Leadership (2023)

• Graduate Diploma Sports Medicine (2021)

• Graduate Diploma Occupational Medicine (2018)

• FAMS (Family Med) (2016)  

• FCFPS (2015)

• Graduate Diploma Geriatrics Medicine (2015)

• MCFPS (2013)

• Graduate Diploma Family Practice Dermatology (2013) 

• Graduate Diploma Mental Health (2012)

• Master of Medicine (Family Med) (2012)

• MRCS (Glasg) (2010)

• MBBS (2007) 

• Co-chair, Epic Polyclinic Process workgroup, SingHealth

• Co-chair , Epic FM content workgroup, SingHealth

• Co-chair, Knee Osteoarthritis ACE guidelines

• Service Chief @ SHP, SingHealth Duke-NUS Pain Centre

• Faculty, Graduate Diploma in Geriatrics Medicine program, NUS

• Advisory committee member, Graduate Diploma in Sports Medicine program, NTU

• Honorary Secretary, Chapter of Family Medicine Physicians, Academy Of Medicine Singapore

• Complaint Committee Member, Singapore Medical Council (SMC) 

• Member, National One Rehab Committee, MOH

• Lead discussant, Gout ACE guidelines

• SingHealth GCEO Excellence Awards, Outstanding Clinician Award, 2024 

• Covid-19 Resilience Medal, 2023 

• Commendation Medal (Covid-19), 2023 

• Singapore Health Quality Service Award 2021 

• SingHealth Learning Award, 2020 

• AMEI Education Grant 2019 

• Faculty Appreciation Award, SingHealth Residency, 2019 

• College Teachers’ Award, CFPS, 2019  

• SingHealth Learning Award, 2019 

• Health Manpower Development Program Award (HMDP), 2019 

• SingHealth Polyclinics 10 Years Long Service Award, 2018 

• SingHealth RISE awards – Outstanding faculty Award, 2017 

• Singapore Health Quality Service Award – Gold Award, 2016 

• Singhealth Polyclinic Quality & Innovation Day Poster competition – winner, 2016 

• Eastern Health Alliance Caring Award – Silver Award, 2014 

• Singapore Health Quality Service Award – Silver Award, 2013 

• Changi General Hospital, Annual Scientific Meeting 2009, Clinical Poster Award 1st prize

•  Evaluation of a Triaging Conversational Agent During the Development and Deployment Phase (Site Principal Investigator)

• Developing and implementing a Chest-XR artificial intelligence (CXR-AI) system in a Singapore primary care setting: A mixed-methods study (Principal-Investigator)

• A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial on the Clinical Effects of Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy for Frozen Shoulder (Co-Investigator)

• A mixed-method time-motion study (TMS) of managing patients with hypertension under the Primary Technology Enhanced Care-Hypertension (PTEC-HT) programme, (Site Principal Investigator)

• Lipid HEALTH Study (Co-investigator)

• Detection of Skin Cancers and benign skin lesions with Teledermatology and Machine learning (Artificial Intelligence) in Asian skin (Co-investigator)

• COVID-19 Case Series – Critical Data of COVID-19 Patients In The Primary Care Setting (Study Team Member)

• Study on The Effectiveness of Musculoskeletal Pain Educational Program on Pharmacists’ and Pharmacy Technicians’ Learning (Co-Investigator) 

• Osteoporosis management among primary care physicians (PCP) in Singapore (Co-investigator)

• A pilot study evaluating the feasibility of a patient decision support aid in cervical cancer screening (Principal Investigator)

• A Randomised Controlled Trial Evaluating the use of a Patient Decision Support Aid in Increasing Paediatric Pneumoccocal Vaccination (PCV 13) Uptake (Principal Investigator)

• AWESOME Study: AGP for Weight Studies to Optimize Metabolic control. AGP: Ambulatory Glucose Profile, as applied to Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) (Site Principal Investigator) 

• Current level of knowledge on Osteoporosis prevention amongst women 21-64 years in an urban dwelling Asian society (Principal Investigator)

• Biomechanical risk factors in trigger finger (Principal

• Yang M, Koh EYL, Koh KH. Disabil Rehabil. 2020 May 6:1-7. doi: 10.1080/09638288.2020.1758225.

• Cross-Cultural Adaptation, Reliability, Validity and Responsiveness of the Simplified-Chinese Version of Neck Disability Index. Lim HHR, Tang ZY, Hashim AMBM, Yang M, Koh EYL, Koh KH. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2019 Nov 18. doi: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000003325.

• Blood pressure goal attainment in multi-ethnic Asian patients with hypertension and dyslipidemia in primary care. Koh KH, Goh CC, Goh SCP, Koh YLE, Tan NC. Singapore Med J. 2019 Sep 6. doi: 10.11622/smedj.2019102.

• Achieving triple treatment goals in multi-ethnic Asian patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in primary care. Goh CC, Koh KH, Goh SCP,  Koh YLE, Tan NC. Malays Fam Physician. 2018;13(2);10–18.

• A cross-sectional study of gender differences in lifestyle behavior and usage of medications among community-dwelling Asians towards achieving their LDL-Cholesterol treatment goals. Ngiap Chuan TanNgiap Chuan Tan1SingHealth Polyclinics, Singapore2Duke NUS Medical School, Singapore 
  See all articles by this authorSearch Google Scholar for this author, Eileen Yi Ling KohEileen Yi Ling KohNg KS, Tang ZY, Wong PNF, Chua JLJ, Goh LLL, Koh YLE, Koh KH. Integrating transformative learning theory in synchronous E-learning in musculoskeletal pain education among primary care nurses: a randomized study. BMC Nurs. 2025 Jul 7;24(1):858. doi: 10.1186/s12912-025-03540-9. PMID: 40624538; PMCID: PMC12232809.

• Goh Z, Lee CWE, Ng CWM, Ang TWA, Dey A, Koh KH, Wong WT, Wee YS, Ahamedulla SH, Teh SF, Wong SH, Tan NC. Effectiveness of triage at primary care ambulatory clinics for early detection and segregation of COVID-19-infected patients. Singapore Med J. 2023 Apr 26. doi: 10.4103/singaporemedj.SMJ-2021-261

• Choong, D.S., Tan, N.C., Koh, Y.L.E., Leong, C. K., Sankari Usha, Koh, K.H. Osteoporosis management by primary care physicians in Singapore: a survey on osteoporosis guidelines utilisation and barriers to care. Arch Osteoporos 18, 72 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11657-023-01283-1

• Can a Brief Online Interdisciplinary Program Enhance the Understanding of Musculoskeletal Pain amongst Primary Care Staff? A Prospective Study. Khim Siong Ng, Bandy Qiuling Goh, Woh Peng Tang, Angela Wing Yan Lee, Samantha Lee, Kim Hwee Koh, and Mitesh Shah. Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare 2022, Vol. 0(0) 1–8

• Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric evaluation of the Malay version of the Neck Disability Index. Lim HHR, Tan ST, Tang ZY

• The effect of the intensity of lipid-lowering medications on the LDL cholesterol treatment goals of Asian patients with dyslipidaemia in primary care. Tan NC, Goh CC, Goh SC, Koh YL, Koh KH. J Clin Pharm Ther. 2016 Dec;41(6):677-683. doi: 10.1111/jcpt.12447. Epub 2016 Sep 19.

• Corticosteroid injection for adhesive capsulitis in primary care: a systematic review of randomised clinical trials. Koh KH. Singapore Med J. 2016 Dec;57(12):646-657. doi: 10.11622/smedj.2016146.

• Asian patients with dyslipidemia in an urban population: Effect of ethnicity on their LDL-cholesterol treatment goals. Tan NC, Koh KH, Goh CC, Koh YL, Goh SC. J Clin Lipidol. 2016 Mar-Apr;10(2):410-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jacl.2015.12.014. Epub 2015 Dec 24.