Profile

Dr Andrea Yeo is a Consultant Paediatrician at SBCC Baby & Child Clinic (Rivervale). She graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS).  She obtained her Master of Medicine (Paediatric Medicine) from NUS in 2005, and was awarded the Nestle Silver Book Prize. That same year, she was admitted as a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (UK). She completed her paediatric training at the National University Hospital (NUH), and was accredited  as a Specialist in Paediatric Medicine by the Ministry of Health in 2009. n 2010, Dr Yeo was awarded the HMDP Medical Award, where she pursued subspecialty training at the Emergency Department of the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne., Dr Yeo is experienced in managing general paediatric conditions and emergencies, newborn and baby care (including jaundice monitoring), immunisations, developmental assessment and behavioural care advice (including Autism and ADHD screening).

Background

Prior to joining SBCC, Dr Yeo was a former Consultant, deputy head of division, and Patient Safety Officer at the Children’s Emergency, Khoo Teck Puat-National University Children’s Medical Institute, National University Hospital, Singapore. She was also a Core Faculty Member of the NUHS Paediatric Residency Programme, and Assistant Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore.

She has won multiple Clinical Improvement Project Awards while working to improve patient care at the Children’s Emergency at NUH.

She also co-authored numerous journal articles in medical publications involving hand-foot-mouth disease,and also intentional poisoning in Paediatric patients. She co-authored 2 chapters in the book Pediatric Differential Diagnosis- Top 50 Problems, published by Elsevier (2018).She has been a Paediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) instructor since 2013.