Dr Lim Hui Fang
Respiratory Physician
Specialty
Respiratory Medicine
Languages
English, Hokkien, Malay, Mandarin
Gender
Female
Insurance Panel
Singlife, Prudential^, HSBC Life, Great Eastern
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Experience
Dr Lim Hui Fang is a specialist in respiratory medicine and intensive care medicine at Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital and Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore.
Her special interests are in severe asthma, bronchiectasis, pneumonia, endobronchial ultrasound and early lung cancer detection.
Prior to joining private practice, she was a senior consultant at the National University Hospital's (NUH) respiratory and critical care medicine department.
Dr Lim graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and underwent clinical specialty training at NUH. She was awarded an Academic Medical Development Award for a clinical research fellowship in severe asthma at McMaster University, Canada. Upon her return, she set up a multidisciplinary complex airway clinic with otolarygnology, infectious disease and allergy/immunology colleagues to provide a one-stop clinical service at NUH. She was also one of the earliest asthma specialists to start using asthma biologics in Singapore. She has been practising medicine for more than 20 years.
She was involved in medical education and was the undergraduate director for the division of respiratory and critical care medicine at NUH.
In 2015, she and her team were awarded the National Medical Excellence Award by the Ministry of Health (MOH) for their work in reducing mortality in community-acquired pneumonia. Dr Lim was appointed by MOH as the programme lead and deputy programme lead for the Singapore National Asthma Programme 2 and 3, to provide input on streamlining asthma-related health services.
Her research interests include asthma epidemiology, asthma disease mechanisms, airway immune-profiling and pneumonia. She continues her research work as a visiting consultant at NUH and adjunct assistant professor at NUS. Dr Lim is also the deputy director of the NUS immunology translational research programme.
Fellowship and accreditation
- 2003
MBBS (NUS, Singapore) - 2007
MRCP (UK) (RCP, United Kingdom)
M Med (Int Med) (NUS, Singapore)
Contact Our Call Centre
Clinic
The Respiratory Practice
38 Irrawaddy Road #08-35
Mount Elizabeth Novena Specialist Centre
SG 329563
Mount Elizabeth Novena Specialist Centre
SG 329563
6517 9637
The Respiratory Practice
319 Joo Chiat Place #05-05
Parkway East Medical Centre
SG 427989
Parkway East Medical Centre
SG 427989
6342 0494
The Respiratory Practice
3 Mount Elizabeth #15-11
Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre
SG 228510
Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre
SG 228510
6835 0045
The Respiratory Practice
6 Napier Road #07-02
Gleneagles Medical Centre
SG 258499
Gleneagles Medical Centre
SG 258499
6475 5001
