{"id":19,"date":"2015-10-01T11:47:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T03:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/luicare.com\/home\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2015-12-18T21:34:19","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T13:34:19","slug":"rheumatologist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/luicare.com\/home\/rheumatologist\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Rheumatologist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Background<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

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Dr Lui is a specialist Rheumatologist who is passionate about good patient care and has received several awards for service excellence. He is trained to manage general Rheumatological conditions, complex autoimmune diseases and general medical problems as well. Dr Lui’s special interest is in early diagnosis and advanced therapeutics for Spondyloarthritis and Ankylosing Spondylitis. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

He obtained his Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery from the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore in 2001 followed by a Masters of Medicine in Internal Medicine and Membership to the Royal College of Physician in United Kingdom in 2006. He then proceeded to study Rheumatology and was accredited as a Specialist in Rheumatology, Singapore in 2009.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Dr Lui was elected to the Fellowship of the Academy of Medicine Singapore in 2012, and Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, United Kingdom in 2015. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Prior to practicing privately, Dr. Lui was a Consultant Rheumatologist and Physician in-charge of the SpondyloArthritis clinic at the Autoimmunity and Rheumatology Centre in Singapore General Hospital (SGH). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Dr Lui is a passionate teacher and has been very actively involved in medical education. At the post-graduate level, he was the Program Director for the ACGME-I accredited Rheumatology senior residency program and Departmental Director of Postgraduate Education for Rheumatology in SGH. As the former Program Director for Rheumatology residency program, he was in-charge of planning and ensuring the smooth running of the training program and the trainees’ compliance with the 6 core competencies – patient care, professionalism, medical knowledge, interpersonal skills and communication, practice based learning and systems-based practice.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

At the undergraduate level, he was appointed the Adjunct Assistant Professor in Medicine at the Duke-National University of Singapore (Duke-NUS) Graduate Medical School and a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Medicine at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (YLL), NUS and was an examiner for the Final Year Medical student examinations in both medical schools.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In 2009, Dr Lui was awarded the SingHealth Health Manpower Development Plan (HMDP) award for further training in Ankylosing Spondylitis at Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada under Professor Robert D. Inman, a key opinion leader in Spondyloarthritis. Upon his return in 2010, Dr Lui spearheaded the service and research in the SpondyloArthritis (SpA) clinic in SGH. His main interest is in the early diagnosis and therapeutics in SpA and he has conducted a regional workshop in early diagnosis of SpA in 2010.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Dr Lui is currently a member of the Assessment of Spondyloarthritis International Society (ASAS), an international group of experts with special interest in Spondyloarthritis, and is also the Medical Advisor for the Singapore Ankylosing Spondylitis Club.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Dr Lui was actively involved in clinical research and had several publications in international peer-reviewed Rheumatology journals and local medical journals. He was the peer-reviewer in several Rheumatology journals in the field of Spondyloarthritis. Dr Lui was the principal investigator for the phase 3 secukinumab therapy for ankylosing spondylitis MEASURE-2 trial and co-investigator for the phase 3 secukinumab therapy for psoriatic arthritis FUTURE-2 trial. He has presented at international, regional and national conferences. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Some of the conditions he treats include autoimmune conditions such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE or lupus), scleroderma, systemic vasculitis, Sjogren\u2019s syndrome, inflammatory muscle diseases, mixed connective tissue diseases and rheumatological conditions such as ankylosing spondylitis, gout, psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis and soft tissue rheumatism.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Awards<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

ASEAN pre-university scholarship by Public Service Commission (Singapore) 1994-1995<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

National Excellent Service Award (Silver) 2008<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Singapore General Hospital Service with a Heart Award Winner – March 2008<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Health Manpower Development Program (HMDP) Award from SingHealth, Singapore to pursue clinical research fellowship in Toronto, Canada 2009<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Singapore Health Quality Service Award (Silver) 2010<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Singapore General Hospital Service with a Heart Award Winner – February 2011<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Singapore General Hospital Service with a Heart Award Winner \u2013 May 2012<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

10 years Long Service Award 29 August 2012<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Singapore General Hospital Service with a Heart Award Winner \u2013 December 2013<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Singapore Health Quality Service Award (Star) 2013<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

RISE Award for Outstanding Faculty 2014 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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