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Dr Ester Yeoh
Senior Consultant, Diabetes Centre,
Khoo Teck Puat Hospital; Admiralty Medical Centre & Khoo Teck Puat Hospital
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Dr Ester Yeoh is a Senior Consultant Endocrinologist at the Diabetes Centre, Admiralty Medical Centre and Khoo Teck Puat Hospital in Singapore. She is trained in Endocrinology and Internal Medicine. She graduated from the National University of Singapore and thereafter, attained specialist accreditation in Endocrinology in Singapore. Following that, she received a Singapore Ministry of Health scholarship for further training and development at the Diabetes Centre and Diabetes Research Group in King’s College Hospital, London UK where she was involved in clinical and research work in type 1 diabetes and hypoglycaemia. She received her Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) in 2017. She has special interests and has published in peer-reviewed journals in the areas of hypoglycaemia, type 1 diabetes and diabetes technologies such as insulin pump and glucose sensors. Her areas of interest also extend to patient education, psychological aspects of diabetes care and digital health solutions. In addition, she contributes to training future doctors and specialists as Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University. She was previously the Assistant Programme Director for Endocrinology and plays an active role in engaging primary care physicians through ongoing continuing medical education talks. Dr Yeoh leads the Flexible Insulin Therapy clinic at the Admiralty Medical Centre Diabetes Centre in managing people with type 1 diabetes. She firmly believes in patient education and empowering her patients towards improved diabetes self-management.

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Day 2, 13 October 2022 , Thursday, 1100 – 1210hrs
Session 6: 13 Oct 2022, Thurs, 1100 - 1230hrs
Track : Track 2B: Beyond Information towards Transformation through enabling Therapeutic Patient Education (TPE) (Level 2, Garnet 212 – 214)
Topic : Beyond Information towards Transformation through Enabling Therapeutic Patient Education (TPE) Past, Present and the Future
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