Dr Low Shun Yee is an Emergency Medicine specialist at Sengkang General Hospital Emergency Department (SKH ED) and a Clinical Assistant Professor with Duke-NUS Medical School and NUS, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. Her subspecialty interests are diverse and include Quality & Patient Safety, Pre-hospital Emergency Care, and Global Health.

Dr Low leads the SKH ED Quality & Patient Safety Team and has been formally appointed as the department’s Clinical Quality Officer, Patient Safety Lead, and Quality Improvement Champion.  

She completed her Emergency Medical Services (EMS) fellowship with the Unit for Pre-hospital Emergency Care (UPEC) and is currently an EMS physician with the UPEC Paramedicine Education & Training Team, and a consultant for the Ministry of Health (MOH). 

Dr Low’s active interests include tackling ED overcrowding through the development of alternative care pathways and paramedicine education in the pre-hospital / hospital setting, and minimising the adverse effects of ED overcrowding by building a strong culture of patient safety and quality improvement in the ED. 

She was awarded the Health Manpower Development Plan (HMDP) in 2024 to complete a fully sponsored 6-month fellowship in Health Systems with Ambulance Victoria EMS and the Royal Melbourne Hospital Emergency Department. 

Aside from these, Dr Low is passionate about international humanitarian relief work and systems capacity-building. As the Course Director of the UPEC Resuscitation Academy Leadership Workshop, she has led courses across Southeast Asia to build capacity of health systems in resource-limited countries such as Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.

Dr Low graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine with an MBBS in 2014, and obtained both the MMed (Emergency Medicine) from NUS and MRCEM (UK) from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine in 2017.

She completed her Emergency Medicine Residency at the National University Health System (NUHS) in 2019, where she was also a graduate of the NUHS Residency Leadership Development Program.