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Katy, Ying Ying Leung

Also known as: Katy Leung

National University of Singapore, Duke-NUS Medical School, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Singapore General Hospital

Research areas: Medicine · Rheumatology · Spondyloarthritis Studies and Treatments · Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation · Psoriasis: Treatment and Pathogenesis

ORCID iD 0000-0001-8492-6342

About

Dr Katy Leung Ying Ying is Associate Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School, and Senior Consultant of the department of Rheumatology & Immunology of Singapore General Hospital (SGH). Dr Leung graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where she was trained as rheumatologist and appointed as honorary assistant professor from 2008 – 2011. She joined SGH in 2011, and currently is the head of research in the department of Rheumatology and Immunology, SGH. Her research focus is on Psoriatic arthritis, osteoarthritis, disability, outcome measurement and biomarkers. She has been working group member of several international collaborations in outcome measures, including the Group of Research and Assessment in Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis (GRAPPA), International Consortium for Health Outcome Measurements (ICHOM), Outcome Measures in Rheumatology Technical Advisory Team (OMERACT-TAG). She is serving as co-chair of the Scientific Committee in the Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology (APLAR) since 2021.

Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com.sg/citations?user=HmmuGO0AAAAJ&hl=en

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  • Exploring the inflammatory signatures underlying progression of knee osteoarthritis: A prospective study National Medical Research Council
    2018 - 2022
  • Concurrent validity of biochemical biomarkers associated with cartilage morphological change in patients with early osteoarthritis National Medical Research Council
    2013 - 2017

Publications (310)