Assoc Prof Andrea KWA Lay Hoon

Clinician Scientist, Pharmacy,
Singapore General Hospital

• Speaker, Allied Health Symposium  
 

Dr Andrea Kwa received her Doctor of Pharmacy Degree in 2006, from New York's Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Prior to this, she had completed her undergraduate studies at the National University of Singapore in 1996. She completed her two-year postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh's Division of  Infectious Diseases, where she researched anti-fungal resistance and molecular diagnostics.

Dr Andrea Kwa is currently a Pharmacy Clinician Scientist and Assistant Director of Health Services Related Research Unit at Singapore General Hospital. She is also a faculty member of Duke-NUS Medical School's Emerging Infectious Diseases program. She specializes in critical care medicine, infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance research. Her pet research topics in infectious diseases include  population pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics of antimicrobials, and molecular diagnostics in fungal diseases among others.

Dr Kwa also helms a laboratory that looks at antimicrobial pharmacodynamics/ pharmacokinetics and resistance at Academia. She also performs health services research involving antimicrobial stewardships, risk factors and outcomes of resistant infections. Dr Kwa has authored about 60 publications and is an avid reviewer for many scientific journals namely, Clinical Infectious Disease, Clinical Microbiology & Infections, Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Antimicrobial Agents Chemotherapy.