Profile
Dr Olivia Wijeweera is a Senior Consultant with the Department of Paediatric Anaesthesia, KK Women's and Children's Hospital. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore in 2004 and won the Best Houseman award in 2005. She went on to complete her five year specialty training in Anesthesiology and obtained her Masters of Medicine Anaesthesiology in 2009.
Dr Wijeweera has been a Paediatric Anaesthetist with our department since 2009, and was awarded the Health Manpower Development Programme in 2011. She completed her fellowship in Paediatric Cardiac and Neuroanaesthesia in Birmingham Children's Hospital, United Kingdom in 2012.
Being a mother of two girls, Dr Olivia was inspired to do Paediatric Anaesthesia because of her desire to work with children. She enjoys helping children through the perioperative process of anaesthesia and surgery and seeing them recover well.
Her subspecialty interests in the field of Paediatric Anaesthesia include paediatric cardiac anaesthesia and neuroanaesthesia.
She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor with Duke-NUS Medical School, Clinical Senior Lecturer with Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and a Clinical Faculty Member of the SingHealth Anaesthesia Residency Program.
Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships
- Adjunct Assistant Professor - Duke-NUS
- Clinical Senior Lecturer - YLL School of Medicine
- Clinical Faculty Member - SingHealth Anaesthesia Residency Program
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