Dr Lim Yinru

Dr Lim Yinru is an Associate Consultant in the Department of Neonatology at KK women’s and Children’s Hospital. She received her undergraduate medical degree at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom and subsequently completed her Paediatrics and Neonatology subspecialty training in London prior to her return to Singapore.

• Certificate of Completion of Training (Paediatrics/Neonatal Medicine) UK 2022
• PG Dip in Paediatrics Infectious Disease (University of Oxford, UK) 2016
• MRCPCH UK 2014
• MB ChB (Hons) (University of Glasgow, UK) 2010
• BSc Med Sci (Hons) (University of Glasgow, UK) 2008

• Associate Consultant, Department of Neonatology, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, 2025 – Present

• Ethical Dilemmas in Newborn Infants with Hypoxic Ischaemic Encephalopathy. V Baral, Y Lim, P Edison, J Menikoff. Asian Bioeth Rev 2025 Feb 26;17 (2): 237-249
• Approach of Neonatal Thrombocytopenia. M Dunlop, N Fordman, T Watts, Y Lim. Archives of Diseases in Childhood Education and Practice Edition 2024 Nov 1:edpract-2024-327519
• Comparison of diagnoses of early-onset sepsis associated with use of Sepsis Risk Calculator versus NICE CG149: a prospective, population-wide cohort study in London, UK 2020 – 2021 Piyasena C, Galu S, Yoshida R, Neonatal Trainee-Led Research and Improvement Projects (NeoTRIPs) group et al BMJ Open 2023 Jul 27; 13(7):e0727708
• Assessing the impact of introducing a satellite blood culture incubator within a tertiary neonatal unit on length of hospital stay. Y Lim, S Beebeejaun, A Claxton, P Fleming, R Prakash. Archives of Diseases in Childhood Fetal Neonatal Edition. 2020 Sep; 105(5):570
• Prevention and Management of Procedural Pain in the Neonate: an update American Academy of Pediatrics 2016. Y Lim, S Godambe . Archives of Diseases in Childhood Education & Practice Edition, 2017 Jul 19
• Congenital Cytomegalovirus – who, when, what-with and why to treat? Y Lim, H Lyall. Journal of Infection 2017 Jun;74 Suppl 1:S89-S94
• Tenofovir Associated Nephrotoxicity in Children with Perinatally-Acquired HIV infection: A Single Centre Cohort Study. Y Lim, H Lyall, C Foster. Clincal Drug Investigation 2015, May; 35(5): 327-333
• Fibrosing Blepharo-conjuntivitis following Pyogenic Granuloma in Ocular Acne Rosacea. M Q. Rhaman, Y Lim, F Roberts, K Ramesh. Ocular Immunology and Inflammation 2010, Oct;18(5):346-8