Senior Consultant
Singapore General Hospital, Singapore
Dr. Jasmine Chung, is an infectious diseases specialist at the Singapore General Hospital, and her subspecialty interest include transplant infectious diseases, and antimicrobial stewardship. She has also been the Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Unit since 2019.
As director of the antimicrobial stewardship unit, she has been involved in various hospital wide stewardship initiatives to improve antibiotic us. She has also worked alongside translational scientists to augment existing strategies for antimicrobial resistance, to bring novel diagnostic platforms (antibiotic combination testing, therapeutic drug monitoring) and therapeutics (e.g. phage therapy) from bench to bedside. She is instrumental in establishing the compassionate phage therapeutic service at Singapore General Hospital, to expand the therapeutic armamentarium for patients with refractory resistant infections. She is also part of the team developing machine learning capability for prediction of infection / resistance at Singapore General Hospital.
In regards to Transplant Infectious Diseases, she was awarded a fellowship in this field at Duke University Medical Centre in 2016. Upon return, she has served as a member of the transplant infectious diseases group at SingHealth Duke Transplant Centre, she has advised on the donor/recipient evaluation in the solid organ transplant / bone marrow transplant / cell therapy units, and is infectious diseases lead at SingHealth Transplant Tissue Centre.