Profile
Dr Sim Wen Shan is a Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists, UK (MRCOG). As a senior consultant in the Maternal and Fetal Medicine Department, Dr Sim Wen Shan’s interests lie in prenatal diagnosis, preeclampsia screening, multiple pregnancies as well as fetal anomalies. She is also the clinical lead for the STORK Multiple Pregnancy Clinic.
Teaching and training of the PGY1s had been Dr Sim’s main contribution to Medical Education for the past 8 years. She is currently the Programme Director of the PGY1 Programme, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital.
Apart of practising medicine, Dr Sim also has keen interests in medical humanities and mindfulness practices. She had recently given a talk on Mindfulness in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the Singapore Mindfulness Conference 2021.
Dr Sim is also a member of the Association for Breastfeeding Advocacy (Singapore).
Education
- MMED Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Singapore)
- MRCOG (London)
- MBBS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS)
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Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships
- Senior Consultant, Department of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, KKH
- Head, Antenatal Risk Assessment Unit, Antenatal Diagnostic Centre, KK Women’s and Children's Hospital
- Programme Director, PGY1, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Obstetric and Gynaecology
- Clinical Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
- Clinical Lecturer, Clinical Faculty Scheme, Yong Loo Lin NUS School of Medicine, Singapore
- Clinical Lecturer, content lead (Multiple Pregnancies) Lee Kong Chian (Imperial College & NTU) School of Medicine, Singapore
- Physician Faculty Member, Singhealth Obstetrics and Gynaecology Residency Programme
- Clinical Lead, Multiple Pregnancy Clinic (STORK TWIN), STORK Clinic, Department of Maternal and Fetal Medicine.
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Awards
- 2022 Singapore Health Service Quality Service Awards, Superstar, Exemplar Professional
- 2021 Singapore Health Quality Service Awards, Star Award
- 2020 SingHealth Long Service Award (10 year)
- 2020 KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (10 year) Long Service Award
- Service from the heart, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, 2020
- Singapore Health Quality Service Awards, Gold Award, January 2020
- Singapore Health Quality Service Awards, Silver Award, April 2017
- Service from the heart, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, January to June 2017
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Publications
- Nguyen-Hoang L, Papastefanou I, Sahota DS, Pooh RK, Zheng M, Chaiyasit N, Tokunaka M, Shaw SW, Seshadri S, Choolani M, Yapan P, Sim WS, Poon LC; Collaborators. Evaluation of screening performance of first-trimester competing-risks prediction model for small-for-gestational age in Asian population. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2024 Mar;63(3):331-341. doi: 10.1002/uog.27447. Epub 2024 Feb 5. PMID: 37552550.
- Chan, Sarah & Lee, Ryan & Tan, Lay-Kok & Wen Shan, Sim. (2023). Creating a Culture of Safety in the Labour Ward. Singapore Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 53. 23-30.
- Sim WS, Yeo, SH, Choi, C, et al. Preferences for a non-invasive prenatal test as first-line screening for Down Syndrome: a discrete choice experiment. Prenat Diagn. 2022; 1- 9. https://doi.org/10.1002/pd.6239
- Poo ZX, Sim WS, Tan LK. Unexpected case of postnatal pancreatitis: first presentation of autoimmune diabetes. BMJ Case Rep. 2022 Dec 7;15(12):e253133. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2022-253133. PMID: 36593615; PMCID: PMC9730374
- Noppadol Chaiyasit, Daljit S. Sahota, Runmei Ma, Mahesh Choolani, Tuangsit Wataganara, Wen Shan Sim, Piya Chaemsaithong, Yi Man Isabella Wah, Shuk Yi Annie Hui, Liona C. Poon, Prospective Evaluation of International Prediction of Pregnancy Complications Collaborative Network Models for Prediction of Preeclampsia: Role of Serum sFlt-1 at 11–13 Weeks’ Gestation, Hypertension, 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.121.18021, 79, 2, (314-322), (2022)
- Sim WS, Tan JV, Zhang VR, Chong GS, Ku CW, Tan KH, Tan HK, Yeo GS, Tagore S. DORSCON Orange: An Approach to Challenges in a Busy Antenatal Diagnostic Centre in the Midst of a Global Pandemic. Ann Acad Med Singap. 2020 Sep;49(9):677-683. PMID: 33241257.
- Chaemsaithong P, Sahota D, Pooh RK, Zheng M, Ma R, Chaiyasit N, Koide K, Shaw SW, Seshadri S, Choolani M, Panchalee T, Yapan P, Sim WS, Sekizawa A, Hu Y, Shiozaki A, Saito S, Leung TY, Poon LC. First-trimester pre-eclampsia biomarker profiles in Asian population: multicenter cohort study. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2020 Aug;56(2):206-214. doi: 10.1002/uog.21905. Epub 2020 Jul 10. PMID: 31671479.
- Maternal Listeriosis: A Diagnostic Dilemma.
Wen Shan Sim, S Tagore, K T Tan Singapore Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology May 2019 - Ng QX, Venkatanarayanan N, Ho CYX, Sim WS, Lim DY, Yeo WS. Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors and Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn: An Update Meta-Analysis. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2019 Mar;28(3):331-338. doi: 10.1089/jwh.2018.7319. Epub 2018 Nov 8. PMID: 30407100.
- Ng QX, Venkatanarayanan N, Loke W, Yeo WS, Lim DY, Chan HW, Sim WS. A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of yoga-based interventions for maternal depression during pregnancy. Complement Ther Clin Pract. 2019 Feb;34:8-12. doi: 10.1016/j.ctcp.2018.10.016. Epub 2018 Oct 28. PMID: 30712750.
- A Case of Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome.
Singapore Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 2016; 47(1):1-4 A Case of Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome. Sim WS, Chong CYL
12. - Case of Bilateral Ectopic Pregnancy Following Intra-Uterine Insemination.
J Med Cases. 2016;7(7):286-290 Wen Shan Sim, Elis Yuexian Lee, Pamela Yu Fen
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Research Trials
- The Experience of Postgraduate Year 1 (PGY1) Doctors in Professional Identity Formation Within an Obstetrics and Gynaecology Rotation – A Qualitative Exploratory Study Using Focused-Group Interviews
Awarded AMEI Educational Research Grant 2023
KK Women's and Children's Hospital
- Labour Induction versus expectant management in high-risk women for preeclampsia (FORECAST-IOL)
Collaboration with Professor Liona Poon, CUHK
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