Full Name
Dr Effie Chew
Designation
Senior Consultant, National University Hospital, Alexandra Hospital, Ng Teng Fong Hospital
Bio
Dr Effie Chew is a Senior Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine and heads the services at NUH, AH and NTFGH.
She obtained her MBBS from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and subsequently, obtained her Rehabilitation Medicine specialist accreditation in Singapore and went on to complete a Fellowship in Clinical Neurorehabilitation at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Harvard Medical School where she developed her research interests in robotics and noninvasive brain stimulation and neuromodulation. While developing the range of clinical rehabilitation services offered at NUHS, she continues research into noninvasive brain stimulation for post-stroke motor recovery, brain computer-assisted motor imagery, and piloted a multicentre robot-assisted rehabilitation programme in the community.
She obtained her MBBS from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and subsequently, obtained her Rehabilitation Medicine specialist accreditation in Singapore and went on to complete a Fellowship in Clinical Neurorehabilitation at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Harvard Medical School where she developed her research interests in robotics and noninvasive brain stimulation and neuromodulation. While developing the range of clinical rehabilitation services offered at NUHS, she continues research into noninvasive brain stimulation for post-stroke motor recovery, brain computer-assisted motor imagery, and piloted a multicentre robot-assisted rehabilitation programme in the community.
