BIOGRAPHY
Prof Victor Samuel RAJADURAI
Senior Consultant
Department of Neonatology
KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital
Clinical Professor of Paediatrics, Duke-NUS
Visiting Professor, Tianjin Central Hospital, China
Professor Samuel Rajadurai is a Senior Consultant in the Department of Neonatology at the KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore. He is a Clinical Professor of Paediatrics at Duke-NUS and also a visiting Professor to Tianjin Central Hospital, China. He has had extensive experience in Neonatology for more than 35 years. Currently, he is the President of the FAOPS Organization and also the Vice President of the Perinatal Society of Singapore and Chairman of the IPOKRaTES Group in Singapore. In the past he has served as President of the College of Paediatrics and Child Health. He was the founding Director of the National Expanded Newborn Screening Programme. Prof Sam’s research interests are perinatal asphyxia, PPHN, late preterm infants, chronic lung disease of prematurity, neonatal nutrition, hypoglycaemia, and newborn screening.
Prof Sam has participated as a collaborator in a number of international multicenter randomized control trials including the OSECT trial, RAST study, UKOS trial, N3RO trial, PROTECT study, OPTIMIST-A trial and the PLUSS trial. He is also an IPRAMHO investigator. He has been invited to speak at several national and international conferences and has also conducted Seminars / Workshops in Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, India, Japan, Cambodia and Myanmar. As a visiting Professor to People’s Republic of China, he has been invited to lecture in several cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, Shenzhen, Chengdu and Yinchuan for the past 15 years. His publications include 6 chapters in books, 130 abstracts and over 150 articles in journals.