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Prof Lim Choie Cheio Tchoyoson

MBBS, MMed (Diagnostic Rad), FRCR (Diagnostic Rad) (United Kingdom), FAMS

Research Interest:

Neuroimaging
NIID/Dementia
CNS Infection
Artificial Intelligence
Computers in Radiology Education/Assessment
Global Health

Clinical Appointments

Senior Consultant Neuroradiology National Neuroscience Institute

Profile

Prof Tchoyoson Lim (MBBS, FRCR, MMed Diagnostic Radiology), is Senior Consultant diagnostic clinical neuroradiologists and Adjunct Professor at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School. He graduated from National University of Singapore in 1988, was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Radiologists, UK and Master of Medicine (Diagnostic Radiology) NUS in 1995, and was Visiting Fellow at the University of California at San Francisco.

He has co-authored 100 manuscripts and 6 book chapters, on clinical neuroimaging research using CT and MR imaging techniques. Prof Lim has held various research grants and patents, sits on journal editorial boards and reviews for research grants and medical ethics IRB.

Prof Lim holds/has held portfolios including Academic Vice-Chairs of Education and Research in Duke-NUS SingHealth Radiology ACP, Secretary of the Singapore Radiological Society, President of the College of Radiologists Singapore, Chief Examiner, Diagnostic Radiology, Deputy Chief Examiner of Royal College of Radiologists/Master of Medicine (Diagnostic Radiology), various External Examiners and Visiting Professors. Prof Lim is Core Faculty, Member of Residency Advisory Committee, Course Director Advanced Neuroradiology Course, Faculty FRCR Preparatory Course, has co-mentored 2 PhD students and won several teaching awards.

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

Senior Consultant, Department of Neuroradiology, National Neuroscience Institute
Visiting Consultant, Department of Diagnostic & Interventional Imaging, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital
Visiting Consultant, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School
Academic Vice Chair Education, SingHealth Radiological Sciences, ACP
Visiting Professor, Diagnostic Radiology, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, 2014 – Present
Member, SingHealth Cluster Teleradiology Committee, 2009 – 2011
Chairman, NNI 10th Anniversary Committee, 2009
Visiting Professor, Diagnostic Radiology, Huashan Hospital Fudan University Shanghai, 2008 – Present
Co-chairman, NNI Research Committee, 2007 – 2008
Member, Specialist Review Panel, National Medical Research Council (NMRC), 2007
Member, NNI Teleradiology Workgroup. 2006 – Present
Research Co-ordinator, College of Radiologists Singapore, 2006
Member, Specialist Panel, Workmen’s Compensation Medical Board, MOH, 2006
Member, Chapter Diag Radiol, College of Radiologists Singapore, 2004 – Present
Member, NHG Domain Specific Review Board, 2004 – Present
Adjunct Assoc Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS, 2004 – 2010
Member, MOH National Committee of Neuroscience, 2004 – 2006
Secretary, Singapore Radiological Society, 2004 – 2005
Member, NNI Research Faculty, 2003
Member, MOH Clinical Practice Guidelines (Stroke) Committee, 2003 – Present
Chairman, NNI Corporate Video Committee, 2000
Member, NNI Web Committee, 2000
Co-ordinator, NNI PACS Program, 1999 – Present
Editorial Board, NNI NeusLink Newsletter, 1999 – 2003

Education

Master of Medicine (Singapore), 1995
Fellow, Royal College of Radiologists (United Kingdom), 1995
MBBS National University of Singapore, 1988

Awards

Faculty Appreciation Award – Residency in SingHealth Excels (RISE) Awards, 2015
Long Service Award – National Day Awards 2015, 2015
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine NUS Dean’s Award for Teaching, 2014
NHG Outstanding Education Partners Award, 2014
DRSB Long Service Award, 2014
Best Poster (as co-author) – 7th Asian Oceanian Congress of Neuroradiology (AOCNR)-Bali, 2009
President’s Award Most Outstanding Proferred Paper (as co-author) – SMRT 17th Annual Meeting-Canada, 2008
Young Investigator Award (as co-author) – 13th Scientific Meeting International Soc of Mag Reson in Medicine-Miami Beach, 2005
Best Scientific Paper – Bronze Award (as co-author) – 12th Congress of ASEAN Association of Radiology-Penang, 2004
Best Poster (as co-author) – 13th Annual Scientific Meeting, Singapore Radiological Society, 2004
Best Scientific Paper – 11th Congress of ASEAN Association of Radiology-Bali, 2002
Best Poster – 1st NHG Scientific Congress, 2002
Best Scientific Paper – 10th Congress of ASEAN Association of Radiology-Bangkok, 2000
HMDP Fellowship for Medical Staff – MOH, 1998
HMDP Fellowship for Master of Medicine – MOH, 1995
President’s Scholarship – Singapore Government, 1983

Research Studies

MR Perfusion: Improving Quantitative Imaging Based Biomarkers of Tumoral Microvasculature Using Combined Dynamic Contrast Enhanced, 2007
Radiology and Follow Up in Buprenorphine and Drug Abuse, 2007
Using Dynamic Contrast Enhanced CT Perfusion (CTP) to Predict and Measure Response to Radiation Therapy for Cerebral Metastases, 2008
Drug-induced Hypoglycaemia – Effects on the Brain, 2009

Publications

Images in clinical medicine. Pendular nystagmus and palatomyoclonus from hypertrophic olivary degeneration. Lim CC Tchoyoson, Lim Su Ann. The New England journal of medicine 2009 Feb 26:360(9):e12.
An unusual outbreak of hypoglycemia. Kao SL, Chan CL, Tan B, Lim CC, Dalan R, Gardner D, Pratt E, Lee M, Lee KO. N Engl J Med 2009:360(7):734-6.
Embolic stroke associated with injection of buprenorphine tablets. Lim CC Tchoyoson, Lee Sze Haur, Wong Yee-Choon, Hui Francis. Neurology 2009:73(11):876-899.
Acute symptomatic seizures and hippocampus damage: DWI and MRS findings. Parmar Hemant; Lim Shih-Hui, Tan Nigel CK, Lim CC Tchoyoson. Neurology 2006; 66(11):1732-1555.
Territorial arterial spin labeling in the assessment of collateral circulation: comparison with digital subtraction angiography. Chng Soke Miang, Petersen Esben Thade, Zimine Ivan, Sitoh Yih-Yian, Lim CC Tchoyoson, Golay Xavier. Stroke; a journal of cerebral circulation 2008:39(12):3248-3545.
Cerebral perfusion mapping using a robust and efficient method for deconvolution analysis of dynamic contrast-enhanced images. Koh TS, Tan CK Markus, Cheong LH Dennis, Lim CC Tchoyoson. NeuroImage 2006:32(2):643-653.
A distributed parameter model of cerebral blood-tissue exchange with account of capillary transit time distribution. Koh TS, Cheong LH Dennis, Tan CK Markus, Lim CC Tchoyoson. NeuroImage 2006:30(2):426-435.
Severe hypoglycemia associated with an illegal sexual enhancement product adulterated with glibenclamide: MR imaging findings. Lim C C Tchoyoson, Gan Robert, Chan Cheng Leng, Tan Alvin WK, Khoo Joan JC, Chia Su-Ynn, Kao Shih Ling, Abisheganaden John, Sitoh YY. Radiology 2009:250(1):193-201.
Dynamic Contrast-enhanced CT of Intracranial Meningioma: Comparison of Distributed and Compartmental Tracer Kinetic Models—Initial Results. LH Dennis Cheong, CC Tchoyoson Lim, Tong San Koh. Radiology 2004:232(3).
Lim CC Tchoyoson, Lee Kim En, Lee Wei Ling, Tambyah Paul A, Lee Cheng Chuan, Sitoh Yih Yian, Auchus Alexandra P, Lin B K Michael, Hui Francis. Nipah virus encephalitis: serial MR study of an emerging disease. Radiology 2002:222(1):219-226