Dr Tan Pei Ling

Dr Tan Pei Ling is a consultant with the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the Singapore General Hospital. Her key interests are in musculoskeletal rehabilitation and cancer pre-/rehabilitation. Besides being a Clinical Associate Professor at Duke-NUS medical school (Singapore), she also holds teaching responsibilities at NUS YYL School of Medicine, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT), as well as SingHealth Senior Residency Program (Rehabilitation Medicine). She is passionate about God, her family, netball and baking.

• Registered Specialist in Rehabilitation Medicine, Singapore Medical Council
• MRCP (UK), MMed (S’pore), FAMS
• M.D., Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore
• B.Sc. (Pharmacy), 2nd Upper Honours 

• Associate Consultant - Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Changi General Hospital, Aug 2019 to 2021
• Chief resident - SingHealth Rehabilitation Medicine Senior Residency program, Jul 2017 to Jun 2019
• Clinical Tutor - Clinical Faculty Scheme (CFS), Department of Medicine, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, 2017 to Present
• Member - Society of Rehabilitation Medicine (Singapore), Dec 2017 to Present
• Fellow - Academy of Medicine, Singapore (FAMS), Oct 2019 to Present
• Welfare sub-committee - SingHealth Senior Residents’ Committee, Jul 2017 to Dec 2018

• Service with a Heart, July 2024
• Singapore Health Quality Service Awards, 2021 (Hero award)
• OneCGHCares award, Oct 2020
• SingHealth Long Service Award 2020 (5 years)
• Best Senior Residency Program, SingHealth RISE Award, 2019
• Outstanding resident, SingHealth RISE Award, 2018
• SingHealth David Sabiston Gold Medal in Surgery, 2012
• Singapore Medical Association-Lee Foundation Teamsmanship Award, 2012

• Soh NH, Yau CRZ, Low XZ, Kadir HA, Fong WJ, Ramalingam MB, Tan PL, Ng KYY, Hsing YT, Cai M, Seo CJ, Ong JC, Chia CS, Wong JSM. Prehabilitation Outcomes in Surgical Oncology Patients Undergoing Major Abdominal Surgery: A Meta-analysis of Randomized Control Trials. Ann Surg Oncol. 2024 Nov 30. doi: 10.1245/s10434-024-16527-8. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39616295.
• Tan PL, Wee TC, Lim AT. Poststroke shoulder pain. Singapore Med J. 2024 Aug 1;65(8):449-453. doi: 10.4103/singaporemedj.SMJ-2021-360. Epub 2024 Aug 10. PMID: 39108041; PMCID: PMC11382817.
• Ling Tan P, Poh Lim C, Ong S, Sithamparapillai Samuel G. The Use of Caffeine Citrate for Respiratory Stimulation in Acquired Central Hypoventilation Syndrome: A Case Series. J Crit Care Med (Targu Mures). 2023 Feb 8;9(1):49-54. doi: 10.2478/jccm-2023-0003. PMID: 36890973; PMCID: PMC9987273.
• Chen DE, Tay EK, Tan PL, Su P, Koh MM, Ong PL, Chew E, Ng YS. The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Rehabilitation in Singapore. Ann Acad Med Singap. 2020 Nov;49(11):925-927. doi: 10.47102/annals-acadmedsg.2020297. PMID: 33381791.
• Tay SS, Neo EJ, Tan MM, Tan PL. Post-Critical Care COVID-19 Patient Benefits from a Robotic Patient-Guided Suspension System for Pulmonary Rehabilitation. Ann Acad Med Singap. 2020 Jun;49(6):401-404. PMID: 32712640.
• Saw HM, Tan PL, Tan YL. Rare Paraneoplastic Opsoclonus Myoclonus Syndrome (POMS) in a recurrent breast cancer patient: Importance of early recognition of POMS and Initiation of rehabilitation intervention. Journal of Case Reports 2017; 7(1):119-123. DOI: 10.17659/01.2017.0033