Clin Asst Prof Newman Cheng Sze Yan

About

​Dr Newman Cheng is Consultant, Department of Neurology at the National Neuroscience Institute at SGH (NNI@SGH) and SKH (NNI@SKH).

Education and Training

• Clinical Fellowship in Electromyography and Neuromuscular Disorders (Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto), 2025
• American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine (Diplomate), 2024
• ASEPA-ASNA EEG Certification, 2023
• ​FRCP (UK), Neurology, 2019
• Master of Medicine, Internal Medicine, 2013
• MRCP (UK), 2013
• MBBS (National University of Singapore), 2010

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

• Consultant, Department of Neurology, National Neuroscience Institute (NNI@SGH)
  
• Consultant, Department of Neurology, National Neuroscience Institute (NNI@SKH)
  
• Clinical Teacher, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
  

Awards

• ​Bronze Award, QI Project, National Neuroscience Institute, 2019
• Best QI Project Team Award, Division of Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, 2016

Publications

• Cheng N, Katzberg H. Involuntary movements in multifocal motor neuropathy: A manifestation of axonal hyperexcitability and motor instability. Clin Neurophysiol. 2025 May;173:219-220. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2025.03.025. Epub 2025 Mar 28. PMID: 40209316.
• Cheng N. A Conflicting Case of Ophthalmoparesis. JAMA Neurol. 2022 Oct 3. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2022.3149. Epub ahead of print. Erratum in: JAMA Neurol. 2022 Nov 1;79(11):1206. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2022.4371. PMID: 36190712.
• Cheng N. Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis After Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 (BNT162b2) Vaccination. J Clin Neurol. 2021 Oct;17(4):573-575. doi: 10.3988/jcn.2021.17.4.573. PMID: 34595867; PMCID: PMC8490890.