Cl Asst Prof Chan Pei Yuan

Cl Assistant Professor Chan Pei Yuan

Head, Primary and Community Partnership, National Dental Centre Singapore (NDCS)

Consultant, Restorative Dentistry (Endodontics), NDCS

Dr Chan Pei Yuan has been a dedicated clinician at the National Dental Centre Singapore (NDCS) since 2010 and currently serves as a Consultant in the Endodontics Unit of the Department of Restorative Dentistry. She completed her Bachelor of Dental Surgery at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2009, and Masters of Dental Surgery in Endodontics at NUS in 2014, supported by a postgraduate scholarship from NDCS.

Dr Chan is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and is registered with the Singapore Dental Specialist Accreditation Board. She is a council member of the College of Dental Surgeons, Singapore, and Associate Director of the Masters of Dental Surgery (Endodontics) programme at NUS.

As Head of Primary and Community Partnership, Dr Chan led community outreach initiatives from 2018 to 2023. She advocates for improving oral health through partnerships with primary care providers and community screening programs. Her efforts earned her the SingHealth RHS Population Health Development Programme grant for the Singapore Oral Health Movement 8020.

Her research interests include cracked teeth, oral frailty, and the oral health of older adults. She is the Principal Investigator for the NRMC-HNIG grant “Beyond Association, Seeking the Causal Relationship of Oral Frailty and Frailty Among Elderly Singaporeans: A Population-based Study.” Her work has been published in reputable journals, including a notable study on the functional oral status and oral health‐related quality of life in community‐dwelling older adults in Singapore, featured in Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology.

Cl Asst Prof Chan’s Session:

Frailty and Intrinsic Capacity Track
Date: 28 Nov 2024 | Time: 12:45 – 14:55 | Venue: Whitespace

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