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Toh Liying
Toh Liying is a Resident with Singhealth Pediatrics, a Sailing coach for Victoria Junior College
and a former international Sailing competitor. Toh participated in the 2008 Olympics, was a
Silver Medalist at the 2006 Asia Games and a Gold Medalist at the 2005 Southeast Asia
Games. From 2005 to 2010 Toh was a Singhealth Ambassador and was awarded the
Singhealth Youth Award. From 2004 to 2009 Toh was awarded an Athlete Career Training
Scholarship by the Singapore Sports Council. Recently, Toh received the 2014 Singhealth
Pediatrics Award for Top doctors in Pediatrics.
Toh received her Doctor of Medicine from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She is
currently completing graduate work at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School (Class of 2014)
in Singapore. From 2012 to 2013, Toh participated in the Duke-NUS Gradate Medical School
Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases where she conducted research, including patient
recruitment, monitoring of dengue inpatients, data entry as well as data analysis focused on
celgosivir an antiviral that fights against acute denge fever.
Toh is passionate about helping people, especially children. She holds an annual fundraiser
in order to help orphans in Yangon. She has participated in several volunteer medical
projects including, Medical and educational volunteer work in Yunnan (Kunming, Cang Yuan
and Lin Cang) under Dr Tan Lai Yong for 3 weeks (May 2009), Duke-NUS GMS Project Karen
conducting health screenings and medical consultations for adults and children in Chiang
Mai region (May 2013), Citramas Batam Health screening together with Pediatricians from
Kandang Kerbau Hospital (June 2013).