Dr Yasmin Idu Jion is a Senior Consultant Neurologist at the National Neuroscience Institute

Dr Yasmin Binte Idu Jion

​MBBS, MRCP (United Kingdom), MMed (Internal Medicine)

Senior Consultant

National Neuroscience Institute National Neuroscience Institute

Specialty: Neurology

Conditions Treated By This Doctor

Clinical Interests

General Neurology, Headache

Clinical Appointments

Senior Consultant

Department of Neurology

Senior Consultant

NNI @CGH

Academic Appointments

Director, Neurology Education

Neuroscience Academic Clinical Programme

Clinical Asst Professor

About

​Dr Yasmin Idu Jion is a Senior Consultant at the National Neuroscience Institute in Singapore where she has been working at since 2010. In addition to clinical practice, Dr Yasmin is involved in the teaching of medical students from the various medical schools and residents, and is involved in public education talks on various aspects of neurology. She has special interest in headache medicine.

Education and Training

  • MMED Internal Medicine (Singapore) 2009
  • MRCP (United Kingdom) 2009
  • MBBS (National University of Singapore) 2005

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

  • Senior Consultant, Department of Neurology, National Neuroscience Institute
  • Director, Neurology Education, Neuroscience ACP
  • Programme Director, SingHealth Neurology Senior Residency Programme
  • Clinical Tutor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Clinical Teacher and Content Expert, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School      
  • Member, Singapore Medical Association
  • Member, Academy of Medicine, Singapore

Awards

  • Ministry of Health Training Scholarship 2013
  • Scholarship to attend further training in Headache and Pain in New York, United States of America

Research Interests

  • Headache epidemiology and clinical trials

Publications

  • ​Jion YI, Grosberg BM, Evans RW. Phantosmia and Migraine With and Without Headache. Headache. 2016 Oct;56(9):1494-1502.
  • Raff Amanda; Jion Yasmin Idu; Grosberg Brian M; Evans Randolph W. Topiramate and nephrolithiasis: a response. Headache 2015; 55(5):701-722
  • Saini M; Bte Idu Jion Y. Periprocedural stroke presenting as isolated unilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia. QJM : monthly journal of the Association of Physicians 2015; 108(2):165-165
  • Jion Yasmin Idu; Raff Amanda; Grosberg Brian M; Evans Randolph W. The risk and management of kidney stones from the use of topiramate and zonisamide in migraine and idiopathic intracranial hypertension. Headache 2015; 55(1):161-166
  • Ng Aloysius; Jion Yasmin Idu; Zainal Nur Hani; Kandiah Nagaendran. Renal dysfunction contributes to episodic memory deficits and medial temporal atrophy in Alzheimer's disease: a pilot study. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2014; 62(10):1981-1222