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2024/01/25
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Adj A/Prof Chua Mui Teng

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Designations:

  • Senior Consultant, Emergency Medicine Department, National University Hospital
  • Senior Consultant, Emergency Medicine Department, Alexandra Hospital
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore

Qualifications:

MBBS (Singapore), MCEM (UK), MMed (EM) (Singapore), MPH, GDSM

Specialties/Sub-specialties:

Emergency Medicine

Special Interests:

Clinical Trials and Research, Ultrasound, Epidemiology, Critical Care, Medical Technology

Biosketch

Dr Chua Mui Teng is a Senior Consultant and Deputy Research Director with the Emergency Medicine Department at National University Hospital (NUH), and an academic faculty member with the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. 

She holds qualifications in Emergency Medicine, Public Health and Sports Medicine. She was the inaugural Chief Resident of the NUHS Emergency Medicine Residency Programme, and remains actively involved in training and developing residents and junior clinicians. 

Clinically, Dr Chua’s interests include emergency ultrasonography, critical care and medical technology development to improve patient care and diagnostics. She also pioneered the use of high-flow nasal oxygenation in NUH’s Emergency Medicine Department. 

As a clinician-investigator, Dr Chua’s research interests include critical care, epidemiology, medical technology and ultrasonography, with a track record of peer-reviewed publications and mentorship of early-career researchers. A recipient of the NMRC Clinician Scientist Individual Research New Investigator Grant, Dr Chua's work has also been honoured with the Annals of Academy of Medicine, Singapore Best Publication Silver Award (2017).

Dr Chua is open to collaborations with partners locally and internationally across academic and translational areas aligned with her research interests.

Awards

  1. Annals’ Best Publication Award 2017 (Silver) for Reversible Causes in Cardiovascular Collapse at the Emergency Department Using Ultrasonography (REVIVE-US). Ann Acad Med Singapore, August 2017, Vol. 46 No. 8 
  2. NMRC Clinician Scientist Individual Research Grant New Investigator Grant (CS IRG NIG) (Dec 2017)
  3. Leader of winning team in SEMS SimWars (Singapore) competition 2014
  4. Leader of runner-up team in ACEM ASM SimWars (Australia) competition Nov 2014

Journals & Publications

  1. Chang JK, Jee Y, Khaing NW, Chua MT, Choi H, Kuan WS, Torta F, Wenk MR. Integrative plasma metabolomic profiling identifies distinct vascular and inflammatory signatures in hospital emergency department patients. Clin Chim Acta. 2026 Jan 1;578:120562. 
  2. Chua MT, Chung LYE, Ng EY, Lim HXY, Cheung NMT, Lim CKW, Lee ZY, Kuan WS. Climate change and environmental sustainability in emergency medicine: a narrative review. Ann Transl Med. 2025 Jun 27;13(3):31. 
  3. Chua MT, Boon Y, Lee ZY, Kok JHJ, Lim CKW, Cheung NMT, Yong LPX, Kuan WS. The role of artificial intelligence in sepsis in the Emergency Department: a narrative review. Ann Transl Med. 2025 Feb 28;13(1):4. 
  4. Yash Pal R, Chua MT, Guo L, Kumar R, Shi L, Kuan WS. The Impact of Palliative and End-of-Life Care Educational Intervention in Emergency Departments in Singapore: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis. Medicina. 2025 Jan 21;61(2):173. 
  5. Cheng L, Low SY, Boon Y, Goh C, Ng A, Ng AJY, Teo J, Johari NH, Pua YH, Chua MT, Kuan WS. Antimicrobial surface coating in the emergency department as protective technology for infection control (ASEPTIC): a pilot randomized controlled trial. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2024 Oct 29;13(1):129. 
  6. Yong LPX, Tung JYM, Lee ZY, Kuan WS, Chua MT. Performance of Large Language Models in Patient Complaint Resolution: Web-Based Cross-Sectional Survey. J Med Internet Res. 2024 Aug 9;26:e56413. 
  7. Pan DST, Kuan WS, Lee MZ, Thajudeen MZ, Rahman MMF, Sheth IA, Ong VYK, Tang JZY, Wee CPJ, Chua MT. 
    Factors affecting outcomes among older trauma patients in Singapore: A retrospective observational study. 
    Ann Acad Med Singap. 2024 May 10;53(5):324-327. 
  8. Anshory M, Kuan WS, Rohman MS, Waranugraha Y, Kamila PA, Iskandar A, Susianti H, Yau YW, Wei Soh CH, Ali KM, Chua MT, Di Somma S. Can non-invasive cardiac hemodynamics and fluid content system (NICaS) parameters predict acute heart failure outcomes in Caucasian and Asian patients in the emergency department? 
    Adv Med Sci. 2024 Feb 21;69(1):81-89. 
  9. Soo JEJ, Chan JSE, Kadir HA, Chia DWJ, Lai SM, Sheth SBS, Ong MEH, Chua MT. Characteristics of migrant workers admitted from the emergency department. Singapore Medical Journal. SMJ-2023-070, January 23, 2024.  
  10. Chan GWH, Chua MT, Lee SK, Krishna, LKR. Willingness of physicians to teach ethics at the bedside: a qualitative study from an Asian perspective. Singapore Medical Journal. SMJ-2022-025, January 08, 2024.

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