Yvonne LIM
Yvonne LIMAssistant Professor
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Affiliations

  • Senior Consultant, Division of Paediatric Endocrinology, Department of Paediatrics, Khoo Teck Puat – National University Children’s Medical Institute, National University Hospital
  • Senior Consultant, NUWoC Children’s Clinic, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
  • Principal Investigator, NUS Synthetic Biology for Clinical and Technological Innovation (SynCTI)

Biography

Dr Yvonne Lim graduated from the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in 2006. She subsequently obtained her specialist accreditation in Paediatrics in 2014. Her clinical practice includes taking care of children with growth and pubertal issues as well as hormonal disorders including thyroid diseases, diabetes mellitus, diabetes insipidus and hypopituitarism.

She has special interests in obesity and childhood diabetes mellitus. She works closely with her team of allied health professionals who are passionate about helping children and adolescents with obesity and diabetes mellitus. Dr Lim has organised holiday weight management programmes for obese children and day camps and motivational workshops for diabetic children. She also spearheads the monthly multidisciplinary weight management clinic.

She aspires to contribute back to science through research. She is part of the team of scientists in SynCTI (Synthetic Biology for Clinical & Technological Innovation). She is currently pursuing her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).

Dr Lim is an Assistant Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS) and is part of the Faculty (Paediatrics) team of the NUHS Residency Programme. She enjoys teaching and inspiring medical students, residents and nurses. As a mother of three, she also enjoys exchanging parenting tips with parents.

Professional Appointments

  • Senior Consultant, Division of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, Khoo Teck Puat-National University Children’s Medical Institute, National University Hospital
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS)Research Interest
  • Childhood obesity, childhood diabetes, translational research, synthetic biologyCurrent Research Projects
  • Bioengineered probiotics delivering anorexigenic gut hormones to the gut as a potential treatment for obesity
  • The Appetite Toolbox Study: A pilot study to improve eating self-regulation skills in paediatric overweight or obesity

Education

  • Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (Singapore) – 2006
  • Member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (United Kingdom) – 2010
  • Masters of Medicine, Paediatrics (Singapore) – 2010
  • Singapore Medical Council, Register of Specialists (Paediatric Medicine) – 2014
  • FAMS, Academy of Medicine, Singapore (Paediatrics) – 2018
  • Master of Clinical Investigation – 2019
  • PhD – current

Selected Publications

  1. YY Lim et al, Engineering the Gut Microbiome for Treatment of Obesity: A Review of Current Understanding and Progress, Biotechnol. J. 2020, 2000013
  2. Ng NBH, CYS Lim, SCHL Tan, YW Foo, CLX Tok, YY Lim et al, Screening for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in children and adolescents with obesity: A scoping review of national and international pediatric obesity and pediatric OSA management guidelines. Obes Rev (2024) May;25(5):e13712.
  3. Ooi DSQ, SG Ong, JMX Chia, YY Lim et al, Quality of life and psychosocial outcomes among children with metabolically healthy and unhealthy obesity. Pediatric Research volume 94, pages1089–1097 (2023)
  4. Ooi DSQ, SG Ong, OMH Lee, YH Chan, YY Lim et al, Prevalence and predictors of metabolically healthy obesity in severely obese Asian children. Pediatric Research 2021; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41390-022-01941-z
  5. CYS Lim, YW Foo, CLX Tok, YY Lim et al, Screening for metabolic complications of childhood and adolescent obesity: A scoping review of national and international guidelines. Obesity Reviews. 2022;e13513
  6. Ng NBH, Low YW, Rajgor DD, Low JM, YY Lim, Loke KY, Lee YS et al, The effects of glucagon‐like peptide (GLP)‐1 receptor agonists on weight and glycaemic control in Prader–Willi syndrome: A systematic review. Clinical Endocrinology. 2021;1–11.
  7. Ooi DSQ, Dorajoo R, Gurung RL, Dehghan R, YY Lim et al, Association of leukocyte telomere length with obesity-related traits in Asian children with early-onset obesity. Pediatric Obesity. 2021;e12771.
  8. Ooi DSQ, Loke, KY, Ho CWL, YY Lim et al, Self and parent-proxy rated health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in youth with obesity: are parents good surrogates?. Qual Life Res. 2020 Aug;29(8):2171-2181.
  9. IY Hwang, HL Lee, JG Huang, YY Lim et al, Engineering microbes for targeted strikes against human pathogens. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 2018, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00018-018-2827-7.
  10. YY Lim, A diagnostic curiosity of isolated androstenedione elevation due to autoantibodies against horseradish peroxidase label of the immunoassay, Clinica Chimica Acta 476 (2018) 103–106.